- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Correspondence, 1861-1864
- Creator:
- Stanley, Marcellus, 1823-1890
- Publisher:
- Marcellus Stanley family papers, MS 3697. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1861/1864
- Subject:
- Clarke County (Ga.)--History--19th century
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, 33.95117, -83.36733
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The correspondence is mainly between Stanley and his wife Julia. He writes from Camp Lawton (Savannah) in 1861 and from Tallahassee and Quincy, Florida. Julia writes of the panic which ensues when the families of Athens hear that the Yankees are coming. She says that Edd Lumpkin's Artillery is at Mitchell Bridge (6/11/1864). Later "...a reconnoitering party came to the hill beyond the paper mill" but Lumpkin "threw a ball among them and they fled" (8/5/1864). She also mentions prisoners being sent to Athens and that the Yankees are stealing silver and horses. There are also general orders to Captain Stanley from Brigadier General Loring announcing a defeat of the enemy at Cheat Mountain by Brigadier General Jackson.
Related materials available in the following collections of this repository: Marcellus Stanley family papers, MS 3514; Stanley family papers, MS 2541; Stanley letters, MS 575; Benjamin Henry Pope letters, MS 368.
Marcellus Stanley (1823-1890) married Julia Pope (1825-1894) and lived in
Athens, Georgia. During the Civil War, Stanley was the first Captain of the Troop Artillery and later a Major. Benjamin Henry Pope (1830-1898) was Julia's brother.
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_harg3697-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg3697-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Marcellus Stanley family papers, MS 3697. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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