Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Civil War Letters, Correspondence between 
Aaron M. Sewell and Louisa Dorsett Sewell, his wife


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Correspondence between Aaron M. Sewell and Louisa Dorsett Sewell, his wife. 
Louisa was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlo[w] and 
granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, Ga.


AARON M. SEWELL LETTERS
1862 - 1864

Aaron M. Sewell was from Summerville, in Chatooga County, near Rome, 
Ga., the son of John Sewell and Charity Lancaster Sewell [formerly of 
Moore County, NC] according to Robbie Moye of Goldsboro, NC.

He was a private in Co. H., 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment.  All of his 
letters were addressed to his wife, Louisa [Dorsett] Sewell, but some of 
them contain notes to his father-in-law, brother-in-law and other 
members of his family and friends.  Letters to by persons other than his 
wife, include letters from M.R. Dosett, S.C. Sewell [Cicero], Harriet 
Dorsett and Burton Yeargan.

Sewell was captured at Champion's Hill, May 16, 1863 and sent to Fr. 
Delaware, but was soon paroled and sent to Virginia [July, 1863] and 
then on to Georgia or Alabama where he was exchanged about September, 
1863.  He helped to oppose Sherman's southward march May - June, 1864 
and apparently was killed in fighting near Marietta in latter part of 
June, 1864.

The originals of these belong to Mrs. Quinton B. Wood, Douglasville, 
Georgia, who consented to their being microfilmed by Emory and the film 
kept at Emory for use without restrictions.  Letters were brought to Dr. 
B. I. Wiley, July 8, 1959. by David Young, teacher in Douglas County 
High School [summer student at Emory, 1959], Douglasville, Ga.  Mr. 
Young was in classes of Dr. Wiley at Emory in 1955 and at that time 
brought some letters from his own family for filming by the Emory 
Library.