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[Identification of item], in the Fort Family Papers, #2436, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1862)
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 9th.
• Florida--History--War of 1812.
• Fort family.
• Fort, Martha.
• Fort, Tomlinson, 1787-1859.
• Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--History--War of 1812.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

MICROFILM ONLY. Political and family correspondence of Tomlinson Fort (1787-1859) of Milledgeville, banker, physician, and Democratic United States representative, and his family. The collection consists chiefly of political correspondence of the 1820s and 1830s and papers of Fort's wife, Martha, after his death, including letters from her sons serving in the 1st and 9th Georgia regiments in the Confederate army in Virginia. Also included are a few papers dealing with Georgia volunteers in Florida during the War of 1812.