- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- John Basil Lamar correspondence, 1861 November
- Creator:
- Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862
- Publisher:
- Box 77 Folder 1, Howell Cobb family papers, ms 1376. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1861-11
- Subject:
- Lamar family
Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865
Plantation management--Georgia
Plantation owners--Correspondence
Plantation owners--Georgia
United States--Politics and government--1815-1865
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862--Correspondence - People:
- Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- This subseries includes correspondence, financial, and business documents regarding John B. Lamar and his family. The correspondence is both to and from John B. Lamar; however, correspondence with Howell Cobb are found in series 1 and correspondence with Mary Ann Lamar Cobb is found in series 3.5.There are many letters between John B. Lamar, his brother Andrew Jackson Lamar, and the children of Howell and Mary Ann Cobb. Included are letters and financial documents regarding plantation administration, including Hurricane Plantation, and agriculture.
John Basil Lamar, brother of Mary Ann Lamar Cobb and brother-in-law of Governor Howell Cobb, was born in 1812, the son of Col. Zachariah Lamar and Mary Ann Robinson of Milledgeville, Georgia. He attended Dr. Beman's school at Mount Zion, GA and Franklin College (now University of Georgia) at Athens in 1827, and moved to a plantation near Macon, Bibb County, GA in 1830. John Basil Lamar became a member of the Georgia Legislature in 1837 and 1838 and was elected to 28th Congress as a Democrat, but resigned in July 1843. He then resumed the management of his plantations which extended throughout central and southwest Georgia and into Florida. He became a Trustee of University of Georgia, 1855-1858. He became a member of Georgia Secession Convention in 1861 and a Colonel in the Confederate States Army on the staff of his brother-in-law, General Howell Cobb. John Basil Lamar was mortally wounded at the battle of Cramptons Gap, Maryland on 15 September 1862.
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_harg1376-077-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg1376-077-001
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Howell Cobb family papers, ms 1376. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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