John Brown Gordon family papers, circa 1841-1979
The collection consists of papers of John Brown Gordon and the Gordon family from ca. 1841-1979. Papers relating to John Brown Gordon include correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks.
More About This Collection
Creator
Haralson, Hugh Anderson, 1805-1854
Date of Original
1841/1979
Subject
Howard family
Hodgson family
Haralson family
Gordon family
Lewis family
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. Senate
Confederate States of America. Army
Generals--Confederate States of America
Genealogy
Legislators--United States
Plantation life--Georgia
Enslaved persons--Georgia
Slavery--Georgia--History
Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Troup County (Ga.)
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
LaGrange (Ga.)--History
Georgia--Genealogy
Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
People
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904
Gordon, Hugh Haralson
Location
United States, Georgia, Troup County, LaGrange, 33.03929, -85.03133
United States, Pennsylvania, 40.8, -77.7
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
Medium
letters (correspondence)
clippings (information artifacts)
photographs
Type
Text
Description
The collection consists of papers of John Brown Gordon and the Gordon family from ca. 1841-1979. Papers relating to John Brown Gordon include correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks. The correspondence (1861-1930) consists of letters written to his wife, Fanny Haralson Gordon, mainly while Gordon was serving in the Confederate Army in the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland; letters (1864-1870) from Robert E. Lee; and correspondence to and from his family while he was serving as a United States Senator in Washington. Other Gordon family members represented in the papers include Hugh Haralson Gordon, Caroline Lewis Gordon, and Lewis Gordon. The collection contains an interesting set of letters (1941-1948) to and from Rev. John Dawson Gordon, whose parents were enslaved by, and later, servants of the Gordon family from 1854 until they moved to California in the 1890s. The collection also contains a letter written in 1864 by an enslaved man named James Gordon, likely sent to General James B. Gordon. The collection also contains papers relating to the Haralson family, consisting mainly of correspondence (1841-1851) between Hugh A. Haralson, while serving in the U.S. Congress, and his wife, Caroline Lewis Haralson, and their daughters Elizabeth, Fanny, and Caroline. Mrs. Haralson's letters to her husband describe her management of their plantation in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, while her husband was away from home. The collection also contains genealogical materials relating to the Gordon, Haralson, Hodgson, Howard, and Lewis families.
John Brown Gordon (1832-1904), Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator, Confederate General, longtime commander of the United Confederate Veterans, married Fanny Rebecca Haralson, daughter of Senator Hugh A. Haralson. For more information, see the article John B. Gordon (1832-1904) in the New Georgia Encyclopedia and his congressional biography.
Arranged into series by family member: Series 1. Genealogical materials; Series 2. John Brown Gordon; Series 3. Haralson family; Series 4. Hugh Haralson Gordon; Series 5. Hugh Haralson Gordon III; Series 6. Caroline Lewis Gordon; Series 7. Lewis Gordon; Series 8. Family bibles.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Hargrett Library
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