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[Identification of item], in the Milligan Family Papers #1020, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of Southern women and their families in the 19th century, Series A.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Henry Graves and Mrs. John B. Reeves of Mount Pleasant Plantation, Social Circle, Ga.

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An earlier inventory of this collection is included as an appendix to this inventory. This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Augusta (Ga.)--History--19th century.
• Branham, I. R.
• Bruns, Henry M.
• Calhoun, E. R.
• Camfield, Abiel, fl. 1819 1826.
• Camfield, Paul, fl. 1840 185?
• Canfield family.
• Cotton trade--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Cotton trade--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Dickson, John, 1795-1847.
• Dickson, Samuel Henry, 1798-1872.
• Education--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Education--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Georgia--Economic conditions.
• Hamburg (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Ketchum, Charles T.
• La Borde, Maximilian, 1804-1873.
• Longstreet family.
• Longstreet, William, fl. 1820 1829.
• McBryde, Thomas L.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Practice--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Milligan family.
• Milligan family.
• Milligan, Elizabeth Camfield, fl. 1838 1884.
• Milligan, Elizabeth Camfield.
• Milligan, Jane, fl. 1835 1856.
• Milligan, Joseph A. S., b. ca. 1823.
• Milligan, Joseph A. S., fl. 1823 1871.
• Milligan, Joseph, fl. 1800 1875.
• Milligan, Joseph.
• Milligan, Octavia Camfield, fl. 1840 1865.
• Milligan, Octavia Camfield.
• Milton (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Natural history--Study and teaching--19th century.
• Needlework--Patterns--History--19th century.
• Parrott, George.
• Physicians--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Physicians--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Schools--Georgia--Augusta--History--19th century.
• Silliman, Henry K.
• South Carolina--Economic conditions.
• Temperance--History--19th Century.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

• Graves Family Papers (#2716); and William P. Graham Papers (#1118).

Joseph Milligan (fl. 1800-1875), of Hamburg (now North Augusta), S.C., and Augusta, Ga., was a physician, druggist, natural scientist, and cotton speculator. His son, Joseph A. S. Milligan (fl. 1823-1871) also practiced medicine. The senior Milligan's first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1841. He married his second wife, Elizabeth Camfield (fl. 1838-1884), also of Augusta, Ga., in 1842. Joseph A. S. Milligan married his stepmother's sister, Octavia Camfield (fl. 1840-1865) around 1848. The Camfields were related to the Longstreet family.

The correspondence and other loose papers (bulk 1835-1849) are chiefly concerned with personal and family affairs. Joseph Milligan wrote to Joseph A. S. Milligan about the latter's education, personal and financial well-being, and future prospects as a physician. Many of these letters are prescriptive in tone. The women of the family corresponded regularly with other family members and female friends about domestic and social life--births, marriages, deaths, and illnesses; clothing; household duties; religion; and neighborhood news. In addition to letters dealing strictly with familial matters, there are also letters detailing Joseph Milligan's scientific interests and discussing the standard medical practices of the day; and business papers of the Milligan, Camfield, and Longstreet families.

The volumes are mostly records, 1838-1868, of the Milligans's medical practice. One volume also includes an undated temperance speech by Joseph Milligan, a series of D'Oyley needlework patterns (1852), a book of household accounts (1872), and an undated album of collected poems.