Inventory of the Augustus Octavius Bacon Papers, 1853-1879

Collection Number 1981


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Bacon, Augustus Octavius, 1839-1914.
Title
Augustus Octavius Bacon Papers, 1853-1879.
Call Number
1981
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
5 items.
Abstract
MICROFILM ONLY. United States senator from Georgia. 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.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Originals returned to private owner in 1952.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Augustus Octavius Bacon Papers, #1981, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Biographical Note

United States senator from Georgia.

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Collection Overview

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.