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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the George M. Hanvey Papers, #3715-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Thomas Spencer of College Park, Ga., 1962.

Location of Originals

Originals in private hands as of 1962.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Artillery Battalion, 12th.
• Coweta County (Ga.)--History--19th century.
• Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Georgia. Militia--History--19th century.
• Hanvey, George M., fl. 1859-1865.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• Macon (Ga.)--History--19th century.
• Navy-yards and naval stations--Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Newnan (Ga.)--History--19th century.

George M. Hanvey (fl. 1859-1865) of Coweta County, Ga., served in the antebellum militia and in the 12th Georgia Artillery Battalion, Confederate States of America, during the Civil War.

The collection includes copies of military letters and papers of George Hanvey concerning antebellum Georgia militia and the 12th Georgia Artillery Battalion, Confederate States of America. Hanvey was stationed in Macon and Newnan, Ga., and at a navy yard in Florida. The letters concern troop movements, provisions, praise from an officer, and Hanvey's discharge from Johnson Island Prison (Ohio). The pre-war material includes a letter from Hanvey promising to put his corps, the Newnan Guards, at the service of the governor of South Carolina should they be needed.