- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Pleasant Stovall letter to his son B.A. Stovall, 1862 August 21
- Creator:
- Stovall, Pleasant, 1793-1863
- Publisher:
- Pleasant Stovall letter to his son B.A. Stovall, MS 1103. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1862-08-21
- Subject:
- Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- Collection consists of a Civil War era letter from Pleasant Stovall in Athens, Georgia addressed to his son Lt. B.A. Stovall in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the letter Pleasant replies to an earlier letter from the Lieutentant regarding investments including Georgia Railroad and Union Bank stock, and discusses the future value of Confederate money and disposition of Confederate property. He also writes about a family visit and the health of various family members, and makes general comments about the War.
Related collections in this repository: MS 810 Thomas Spalding Wylly letters, 1867-1973, and MS 500 John C. Hart collection, 1874-1906; and MS 3527 Phinizy-Stovall family papers.
Pleasant Stovall (son of Thomas Stovall and Elizabeth Cooper) was born June 08, 1793 in Henry, Virginia, and died November 29, 1863 in Athens, Clarke, County, Georgia. He married Louise Roper Lucas on January 06, 1818 in Hancock County, Georgia.
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_harg1103-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg1103-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Pleasant Stovall letter to his son B.A. Stovall, MS 1103. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
