- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Scrapbook Volume 1, 1861 November-1862 May: pages 49-73
- Creator:
- Stovall, Marcellus Augustus, 1818-1895
- Date of Original:
- 1861-11/1862-05
- People:
- Arp, Bill, 1826-1903
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Stovall, Marcellus Augustus, 1818-1895 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts)
broadsides (notices) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- This scrapbook, in three volumes, was kept by Marcellus Augustus Stovall during his service in the Civil War. The scrapbook primarily includes newspaper clippings, including editorials by correspondents like P. W. Alexander of the Savannah Republican and Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith), accounts of military movements and battles, sketches of some of the commands including muster rolls, messages of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, editorial comments, personal letters, and unique Confederate broadsides from 1862 and 1863. Volume 1 covers November 1861-May 1862. Volume 2 covers April 11, 1862-January 1863. Volume 3 covers January 1863-November 1863.
Marcellus Augustus Stovall, 1818-1895, was born in Sparta, Georgia and attended school in Massachusetts. In 1835 he joined the Republican Blues of Augusta for service in the Seminole War. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy but dropped out after one year because of poor health. After a tour of Europe, Stovall settled near Rome, Georgia and was the Captain of the Cherokee Artillery in 1861. At the start of the Civil War, he was appointed Colonel of Artillery in the Georgia State Militia and was soon promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 3rd Georgia Battalion Infantry. He also served with the Army of Tennessee. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1863, and served with General Johnston in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns. Paroled in 1865, Stovall returned to Augusta, Georgia and became a cotton broker and manufacturer of fertilizers. He organized and operated the Georgia Chemical Works in Augusta, Georgia until his death in 1895.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ghs1047-001c
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ghs/turningpoint/do:ghs1047-001c
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [Identification of item], Marcellus Augustus Stovall scrapbooks, MS 1047, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia
- Original Collection:
- Marcellus Augustus Stovall scrapbooks, MS 1047, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Historical Society
- Rights:
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