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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 Hermione Ross Walker Papers, #822-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Benjamin Pressley (Hermione Ross) Walker in 1944.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private owner.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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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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• Autobiographies--Georgia.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 66th.
• Northeastern States--Description and travel.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.
• Rose, Simri, 1799-1869.
• Ross, Anne Roulhac Rose, 1850-1888.
• Ross, Edgar A., 1850-1929.
• Ross, William R., d. 1863.
• Travelers--Northeastern States--Diaries--History--19th century.
• Walker, Hermione Ross.
• Women--Georgia--Diaries--History--19th century.

Hermione Ross Walker was the daughter of Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929) and his first wife, Anne Roulhac Rose Ross (1850-1888). Anne Roulhac Rose Ross was the daughter of Simri Rose (1799-1869), a pioneer citizen of Macon, Ga., and Lavinia E. Blount Rose.

The collection contains typed transcriptions and microfilm (originals returned to private owner) of correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of related families centered in Macon, Ga. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Simri Rose (1799-1869), Macon editor, and his diary of travel in the North, 1830; letters of and about Lieutenant William R. Ross, (died 1863), 66th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America; diaries and poems, 1861, 1867, 1869, of Anne Roulhac Rose (Mrs. Edgar A.) Ross (1850-1888), of Macon, chiefly concerning her feelings and her social life; memoirs of Reconstruction by Edgar A. Ross (1850-1929); other family correspondence; and other items.

• Photographs (PF822/1)