Items and Collections

Date of Original
1854/1946

Subject
Knox family
Knox, John J., 1835-1877.--Correspondence
United States. Department of the Interior
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Knox Institute and Industrial School
Manuscripts
African American schools--Georgia--Athens
Freedmen--Georgia
Freedmen--Mississippi
Affidavits
Account books

People
Knox, John J., 1835-1877

Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018

Medium
speeches
military records
clippings (information artifacts)
correspondence
articles

Type
Text

Description
The collection consists of clippings from John J. Knox's personal scrapbook, affidavits, letters, manuscript speeches, military documents, and other material. The speeches were likely written during the time he was a teacher in Mississippi, prior to the Civil War. Of particular interest are also two speeches he gave at the Knox Institute (a Freedmen's school named after him) in Athens, Georgia. Also included are materials relating to Knox's family, including letters (many addressed to Clarkston, Michigan), an account book, and photographs., John J. Knox was born on February 3, 1835 in Onandaga, New York. He enlisted in Company D of the Fifth Michigan Infantry in 1861 after having been expelled (for his Union sentiments) from the state of Mississippi where he had been a teacher. In 1862 he assumed command of his company and was gravely wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks the same year. Unfit for further battle duty, he served as Provost Marshall at Plattsburgh, New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania. After the war, he served in the Freedmen's Bureau in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. He later worked for the Department of Interior in Indian Territory. Knox died of complications from his war wound on April 19, 1877.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_3119

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights