Folder 7
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Gen Marcus Wright, pencil draft of letter from Anna Benning, responding to Wright’s request for further information on Benning’s staff, with handwritten enclosure listing the status of Benning’s Civil War reports that had been sent to Wright and those returned to her
Item — Folder: 7, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The bulk of the collection deals with the financial transactions of (and especially debts owed to) Seaborn Jones, the records of his (and to a lesser degree Benning's) law practice, and the Civil War correspondence and records of Henry L. Benning. T he legal papers contain copies of suits and various estate proceedings for a wide variety of individuals; these items reflect other aspects of antebellum life in Georgia, particularly the institution of slavery. Jones's papers included a leather...
Dates:
1795 - 1845