This list is a customized inventory of Bartow works assembled by Dr. Keith Herbert, Auburn University. This collection primarily focuses on documents that hold information about the Civil War and Reconstruction as it relates to Bartow County and northwest Georgia.
Primary Sources
Manuscripts
Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery.
Zillah Haynie Brandon Diary, 1823–1871
Bartow History Museum, Cartersville, Georgia
Yeoman Farm Journal [Author Unknown]
Young Family Papers
Kenan Research Library and Archives, Atlanta History Center
Warren Akin Letter
Wilbur Kurtz Collection
Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass.
- G. Dun & Company Collection, Georgia
Special Collection, Bartow County Public Library, Cartersville
Northwest Georgia Document Preservation Project (microfilm)
Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta
Confederate Miscellany Files
George Scarborough Barnsley Papers (microfilm)
Godfrey Barnsley Family Papers
Rebecca Rainey Hood Papers (microfilm)
William Augustus Chunn Letters
William H. Stiles Papers
Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta
Bartow County Vertical File
Bartow County Maps
Cass County Deeds (microfilm)
Cass County Superior Court Minutes (microfilm)
Charles W. Howard Cherokee Baptist College Address
Cherokee Baptist College Commencement Address, 1860 (microfilm)
Cherokee Baptist Convention Minutes (microfilm)
Chunn-Land Family Papers
Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861–1865
Cooper Family Vertical File
Family Genealogical drawer
Etowah Mill Journal (microfilm)
Executive Department Correspondence (Incoming)
Executive Department Correspondence (Outgoing)
Macedonia Baptist Church Minutes (microfilm)
Mackay-Stiles Family Papers (microfilm)
Mark A. Cooper Papers (microfilm)
John F. Milhollin Letters (microfilm)
Noble John Brooks Letters (microfilm)
Summary Reports of Southern Claims Commission (microfilm)
James W. Watts Farm Journal (microfilm)
William K.Watson Diary (microfilm)
Western and Atlantic Railroad
William Hardin Papers
Wofford Family Vertical File
Georgia Historical Society Archives, Savannah
Godfrey Barnsley Papers
John W. Bentley Collection
Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California
Godfrey Barnsley Papers
National Archives and Records Administration, Southeast Region, Atlanta
Southern Claims Commission (Allowed)
Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands Records, Georgia
National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
Manuscript Censuses, Georgia, Cass, Floyd, Gordon, Cobb, Polk,
Cherokee Counties, Schedules I, II, III, IV, 1850, 1860
Manuscript Censuses, Georgia, Bartow County, Schedule I, 1870
Record Group 56, General Records of the Department of the Treasury, Records of the Commissioners of Claims (Southern Claims Commission), 1871–80, Microfilm Publication 87
Record Group 217, Records of the U.S. General Accounting Office, Allowed Cases Files of the Southern Claims Commission
Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Barred and Disallowed Claims of the Southern Claims Commission
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio
Styles Porter Diary
Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
George Scarborough Barnsley Papers
Mackay-Stiles Family Papers
Shorter College, Rome, Georgia
Northwest Georgia Document Preservation Project (microfilm)
Macedonia Baptist Church Minutes
Raccoon Creek Baptist Church Minutes
Tennessee State Archives, Nashville
Barnsley Family Papers (microfilm)
University of Georgia, Hargrett Rare Books and Special Collections Library, Athens
Telamon Cuyler Collection
Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers
Southern Cultivator
The Confederate Veteran
The Courant American (Cartersville)
The Daily Chronicle and Sentinel (Macon)
The Daily Telegraph (Macon)
The Express (Cartersville)
The Federal Union (Milledgeville)
The North Georgia Citizen (Dalton)
The Southern Banner (Athens)
The Southern Statesman (Calhoun)
The Standard (Cassville)
The Standard and Express (Cartersville)
The Tri-Weekly Courier (Rome)
Published Primary Sources
Bauer, K. Jack. Soldiering: The Civil War Diary of Rice C. Bull. New York: Presidio Press, 1995.
Black, Frances Josephine, ed. “‘We Begged to Hearts of Stone’: The Wartime Journal of Cassville’s Lizzie Gaines.” Northwest Georgia Historical and Genealogical Quarterly 20 (Winter: 1988): 6–16.
Candler, Allen D. The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia: Volume One. Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, 1909.
Cone, A. J. The Rock: A Story of the War. Atlanta: n.p., 1913.
Dean, Benjamin Devor. Recollections of the 26th Missouri Infantry in the War for the Union. Lamar, Missouri: Southwest Missourian Office, 1892.
DeBow, J. D. B. A Statistical View of the United States: A Compendium of the Seventh Census. Washington: Beverly Tucker, 1864.
Felton, Rebecca Latimer. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth. Atlanta: Index Printing, 1919.
Hargis, O. P. Thrilling Experiences of a First Georgia Cavalryman in the Civil War: Three Months Inside the Federal Lines in Rear of Sherman. N.p., 1910.
Howard, Frances Thomas. In and Out of the Lines. Cartersville, GA: Etowah Valley Historical Society, 1998.
“Howell Cobb Papers.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 6 (1909): 23–49.
Jones, Joseph. First Report to the Cotton Planters’ Convention of Georgia on the Agricultural Resource of Georgia. N.p.: 1860.
Kerksis, Sydney, ed. The Atlanta Papers. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1980.
McGill, Robert. Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy. Milledgeville: Boyd, 1993.
Noe, Kenneth W., ed. A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock 9th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Scarborough, William K., ed. The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, Volume One: Toward Independence. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
Scott, Thomas A., ed. Cornerstones of Georgia History: Documents that Formed the State. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Sterkx, H. E., ed. “The Autobiography and Civil War Letters of Joel Murphree of Troy, Alabama: 1864–1865.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957): 176–77.
United Confederate Veterans. Minutes of the Annual Meeting and Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans: Hopkins’ Printing Office, 1889.
War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891.
Watkins, Sam R. “Co. Aytch” A Side Show of the Big Show. New York: Touchstone, 1997.
“Whites with Indian Families.” Bartow County Genealogical Society and Family Research Library, No. 10 (2001): 20–21.
Wiley, Bell Irvin, ed. Letters of Warren Aiken Confederate Congressman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1964.
Wills, Charles W. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier Including Day-by-Day Records of Sherman’s March to the Sea. Evanston: Southern Illinois Press, 1996.
Wynne, Lewis N. and Robert A. Taylor, eds. The War So Horrible: The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
