Scope and Contents This collection consists of the typescript of the diary of James William Howard. The original diary consisted of three parts which were carried around with him and thus were badly worn. About 1904, Mrs. Agnes Eason, the Poet Laureate of Florida, convinced him to let her type a copy of the diary as he read it to her. This copy is the same one that the family allowed the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to copy. It also contains a family history added...

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This small collection consists of two printed reports by a Georgia Representative and a Senator in the U.S. House and Senate in April 1917 concerning conscription and the increase of the military.

Conscription: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Charles R. Crisp of Georgia in the House of Representatives, April 28, 1917

Increase of the Military Establishment: Speech of Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia in the Senate of the United States April 27,1917