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[Identification of item], in the Augustus Octavius Bacon Papers, #1981, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Bacon, Augustus Octavius, 1839-1914.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 9th.
• Democratic Party (Ga.)--History.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--19th century.
• Diaries.
• Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Tuskegee (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• United States--Description and travel.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--Politics and government--1865-1877.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States senator from Georgia.

MICROFILM ONLY. Three diary volumes of Bacon, 1853, 1861, and 1868; and two letters, one from Bacon to his mother, 1864, and one to Bacon requesting aid in passing local bills. The 1853 volume, kept while Bacon attended school in Tuskegee, Ala., concerns school, play, church, relatives, and friends in Tuskegee. The 1864 volume deals with Bacon's experiences as an officer in the Ninth Georgia Regiment, including movement and engagements in the fall of 1864, with a map of the area around Bull Run and twenty- eight pages of extracts from letters Bacon had written home, August- November 1861. The 1868 volume concerns Bacon's trip from Macon, Ga., to New York City to attend the Democratic National Convention, and political meetings and related business in Georgia; it includes a copy of a speech Bacon delivered on September 5 in Covington, Ga.