- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Benjamin Henry Pope journal
- Creator:
- Pope, Benjamin Henry, 1830-1898
- Date of Original:
- 1862
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Location:
- United States, Kentucky, 38.20042, -84.87762
- Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The journal includes entries from Benjamin Henry Pope in 1862 as he serves in Company K, 9th Mississippi Infantry, and provides details of battles in the Glasgow/Cave City/Munfordville, Kentucky area and his opinion that General Chalmers made errors and poor decisions.
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_harg3697-001-002
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_turningpoint_harg3697-001-002
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- 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.
- Original Collection:
- Marcellus Stanley family papers, MS 3697. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
