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Book Title: Coweta County Chronicles

CHAPTER VIII.
Early History of Senoia Told by Mrs. Alice Baggerly Fall. 1861. Coweta's
Delegates to the Secession Convention. Newnan Guards the First Company in the
State to Volunteer. College Temple Seniors' Address when Presenting a Flag to
the Newnan Guards. "The Fly Leaf," a College Temple Publication, and Its Makeup.
Some Quotations from the "Georgia Banner and Sentinel." A letter Written by W.
G. Camp Immediately After the First Battle of Manassas. A Wartime Wedding. 

1860

  Mrs. Alice Baggerly Fall writes:

  In 1860 Rev. Francis Warren Baggerly bought the land on which Senoia is built.
The first building was the Rock House intended for commercial purposes, but
serving for commissary for the Confederacy, mercantile purposes, and as a house
of worship. The first church, Methodist Episcopal, South, with Rev. F. W.
Baggerly as pastor, and the first Sunday school, with Mrs. Herndon, a refugee,
and her family as superintendent and teachers, were organized in its upper
story. Pine benches of rough lumber were the seats. In memory I can hear the
songs, written on fools' cap paper and distributed by our saintly
superintendent, "Around the Throne of God in Heaven," " 'Tis Religion That Can
Give," and "I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old."

  Our home was converted into a veritable factory, with looms and sewing
machines for the making of hats of stitched jeans, for the soldiers, besides
shoes. In this way giving work to needy women and children. Shoes for women and
children were made of oilcloth. How proud we were of laced-up shoes with eyelets
worked in button-hole stitch.

  Before the close of the war, the Confederate Government issued a limited
number of yards of "yellow cotton cloth" to soldiers' wives. I recall going to
Macon with my father to draw the quota allowed Senoia by the designated factory
in Macon, Ga.
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  Not only did he minister materially, but spiritually, as his whole life in
Senoia was spent in preaching the Gospel, without charge for his services.

  The then Savannah, Griffin, and North Alabama Railroad was graded through
Senoia to one mile above, but for the four years of war nothing more was done.

  In 1865 re-organization began and no subsequent history can equal the high
type of citizens that poured into Senoia. The railroad was completed. Business
prospects attracted young men of the highest standing.

  From the Enterprise-Gazette, (a paper published in Senoia for many years) is
taken the statement that "John Williams suggested the name Senoia for an Indian
Chief of that name, a medicine man and philanthropist, noble, brave, and
generous, who lived near the present location of Sargent, and went to the West
with the McIntosh family."

  The first homes there, were: The Baggerly home on the Reid corner (later so
called), Thomas Wells' (later the W. J. Estes place), Dr. J. T. Addy's, later
the Culpepper place, home of Milton Culpepper, father of Dr. Wilber Culpepper,
Senoia's faithful physician, for a half century.

  Dr. Addy was the first physician to locate in Senoia. Levein & Levi had built,
in 1859, a store and dwelling combined, next to the Rock House, occupied by
Baggerly & Williams, that Mrs. Fall describes.

  Mrs. Jane Posey, died in Newnan June 13, 1860, and was buried between her
husbands, William M. Stokes and Reverend Humphery Posey, in the Stokes burying
ground on land lot 26, in the Sixth district. She had been a member of the
Baptist church for sixty years and requested that the words, "A sinner saved by
grace," be carved on her tombstone. She was about the first woman in Georgia to
leave a fortune to a school—she left $10,000 worth of Atlanta & West Point
railroad stock to Mercer University besides many legacies to various relatives.
To the fortunes she had inherited from her father and her first and second
husbands, she had added by her energy, economy, and business ability. Within a
short while, the bequest to Mercer had doubled in value, the Atlanta & West
Point road has always prospered.

1861

  Coweta county sent Dr. A. B. Calhoun, J. J. Pinson and Major William B. Shell
as delegates to the State Convention that passed the
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ordinance of secession and Newnan's military company, the Newnan Guards were the
first in the State to offer their services—thereby becoming Company A of the
First Georgia Regiment. (Its muster roll may be found by reference to the index.)

  In presenting a flag to the Newnan Cadets the address ended:

  As testimony of our appreciation of the course you have been pleased to adopt,
the Senior Class of College Temple, present to you the Flag of the Confederate
States of America . . . . The upper and lower sections composing the fly part,
are red, the middle section white, while a blue union, containing seven stars in
a circle, reaches from the top to the lower red. . . . The blue union signifies
firmness, constancy, faithfulness; the white purity and peace; red is emblematic
of war. With the seven stars in the blue, the flag can be read as follows:
Blue—seven states have entered into a covenant of good faith;—white—to promote
the general welfare in time of peace; red—to provide a common defence in time of
war.

  We commit this flag to your keeping. It's broad bars and mystic circle of
seven stars have already supplanted, after a terrific cannonade of thirty-three
hours at Fort Sumter, the "Stars and Stripes" which we honored longer than it
protected us and our rights. Receive it, cherish it, protect it—ever let it be a
standard around which may rally only the noble, the brave, the true.

  This class presented a Bible to the Newnan Guards before their departure for
the post assigned them.

  Miss Helen Long gave this account of the beautiful white horse that President
Jefferson Davis, of the Southern Confederacy, rode: Major Lawrence Calhoun lived
on the lot on which the Methodists are building their new church and had a large
stable on the site of the present Masonic Temple, and there horses bought by his
son, Tom, who was commissioned to buy horses for the Confederacy, were kept. Tom
recognized in a white steed belonging to John Abrams, who lived on the corner
now occupied by the home of Mrs. Mollie Farmer, a fitting mount for the
President (then desiring one), bought it for him, and its use gave rise to the
doggerel:

         "Jeff Davis rode a milk white horse
          Abe Lincoln rode a mule."

  The limitations and the longings of the college bred women of this period is
voiced in this extract, from an article in Volume VII, Num-
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ber 1, of the quarterly publication of College Temple, The Fly Leaf, entitled,
"Woman-An Appeal:

  I doubt not the question, "Where can I find honorable and paying labor?" has
often perplexed educated woman as she leaves the walls of the academy or
college. She looks around and "finds to her amazement, that the sterner sex have
closed against her the door to nearly every avenue of fame. "I must live," she
says, "at the same time I desire to gratify a laudable ambition—and what must I
do? I cannot seek and obtain offices, for the laws of man have prohibited me. I
cannot mount the hustings and be corrupted by political excitement, for I would
lose the respect of the good and brave! I cannot become an advocate or attorney,
astonish the Judge on the bench, draw tears from listening and attentive Juries,
by the magic of eloquence; contend with the learned and unlearned, because every
dictate of prudence and propriety is against it! I cannot compete successfully
with man as a physician, because I could not perform many of the duties required
at my hands! What then Must I do?" After this survey, she exclaims, "I must
stitch, stitch, stitch, confined to the four walls of my room. All my bright
dreams of glory and success have proved but as the will-of-the-wisp which has
led me into desolate regions and left me forsaken and forlorn. My lot is hard—a
weary and restless existence is mine. I may moisten with tears my pillow by
night, and dream of glory by day, but I cannot change my destiny. I am caged. My
intellect is fettered." The writer bids all such ambitious women to take heart,
assuring them that the field of "Southern Authorship" is wide and promising.

  This advertisement from the "Fly Leaf" is of interest:
                         INK!                     INK!
  Superior Black Writing Ink Manufactured and Sold Wholesale and retail at
College Temple Laboratory.

  There is no further necessity for affording "aid and comfort" to our enemies
by purchasing Writing Ink from them, for SUPERIOR QUALITY can be bought here on
the most favorable terms for cash.

  This Ink has been fully tested, as the following testimonials will show:
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  From the Editor of the "Literary Companion," April 17,1861:- 
  "We have tested Mr. Kellogg's Ink on blank and white paper, and pronounce it
far SUPERIOR TO ANY INK WE HAVE USED."

  "Newnan, Ga., April 23, 1861.-I have carefully compared Mr. M. P. Kellogg's
Ink with Arnold's and T. Davis & Co's. Writing Fluid, and must say it is, in my
opinion, a superior Ink to either of them.
                                  W. J. Ransom."

  Address all orders to M. P. Kellogg, Newnan, Ga.

Another advertisement closes with the line:

  We have but ONE PRICE but that is so low that even a Jew could not ask us to
take less.

  NEW DRY GOODS by J. J. Pinson; BOOK and JOB PRINTING by J. A. Welch, at the
Banner and Sentinel office. Cosmopolitan Art Association. Superb Engravings!
Beautiful Art Journal. C. L. Derry, Actuary C. A. A., 548 Broadway, New York, or
M. P. Kellogg, Hon. Sec. Newnan, Ga.; Piano Tuning, Prof. J. R. Seals; Marietta
Paper Company, Manufacturers of Book, News, Colored, Manilla and Wrapping
Papers, which they furnish to order on the shortest notice and most reasonable
terms. Also, Letter, Cap, Note and Envelope furnished to order. Cash paid for
cotton and linen rags, old rope, bagging and cotton waste. Address, A. S.
Edmonston, Agent, Marietta, Ga.; THE FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, Atlanta, Ga. The
under signed, having combined the extensive assortment of Printing materials of
C. R. Hanleiter and J. W. Wood & Co., and added thereto about Six Thousand
Dollars worth of NEW MATERIAL, including one of Hoe's Large Cylinder Presses
(bed 31 x 46 inches,) one of Isaac Adams' large Book Presses and a Ruggles' Half
Cap and Bill-Head Press-together with a complete Bindery-are prepared to do any
and all kinds of Book, Newspaper, & Job Printing and Book Binding, in the best
style at short notice. Wood, Hanleiter, Rice & Co.; The Ladies Home Magazine,
Volumes XV and XVI, Edited by T. S. Arthur and Virginia F. Townsend. Devoted to
Social Literature, Art, Morals, Health, Fashion and Domestic Happiness,
Terms.-Two Dollars a year in advance. Address T. S. Arthur & Co., 323 Walnut
St., Philadelphia.
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  A full page advertisment of College Temple gives the faculty for 1861: M. P.
Kellogg, A. M., President and Proprietor, Ancient Languages and Natural Science.
Miss C. F. Gibb, Principal in English Department, Mental and Moral Science. (On
furlough at her home in Virginia.)

  Miss F. R. Phillips, Modern Languages and Ornamentals. Miss Ann D. Moore, M.
A. Assistant in Classical and English Departments. Prof. John R. Seals,
Principal in Music Department.

  College Temple is organized in four Departments: Preparatory, English,
Classical and Music.

  The Classical Department . . . . for such pupils only as design to pursue a
full Course of Study in the English, French and Latin Languages. Believing that
no Lady can be thoroughly educated without a knowledge of these three Languages
and an ample Course in Mathematics, no effort will be spared to make
accomplished Scholars of all that are permitted to enter this Department; Such
as complete the Course will receive a Diploma in Latin and the Degree Magister
in Artibus.

  No specified time will be allotted to a pupil, in which to graduate, but she
will be permitted to advance as rapidly as her physical constitution, mental
abilities and application will authorize. The plan of teaching will be chiefly
individual instruction. English Composition will receive extraordinary
attention. . . . . The main object of the Classical Department is to prepare
WRITERS AND TEACHERS.

  The exercises will open Wednesday, January 16, 1861; Will close November 13,
with a vacation of four weeks in summer.

  Board at "Temple" exclusive of washing, lights, etc. $100. Tuition:
Preparatory per annum $25 to $40; English. $50; Classical, $75; Music, $50.

  The Fly Leaf, from which the foregoing items were taken, says in its
prospectus, "The 'Leaf printed on good Georgia made paper, with new type, &c,
will be issued Quarterly, about the middle of March, June, September, and
December." "The Subscribers to "The Fly Leaf" become members of an Association
for the Promotion of Southern Authorship.

The money obtained from subscriptions "will be applied: 1. To
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publishing The Fly-Leaf. 2. To giving Fly-Leaf Concerts Free to the Members. 3.
To Procure Prizes to be Awarded for the best Productions in Prose and Verse from
the Pens of the Members of the Association. 4. To enlarge the Fly-Leaf Library."

  Charles A. Fulwood served as pastor of the Methodists 1860-61.

  Mrs. Mary Jane Stacy, wife of Reverend James Stacy, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church since 1857, died.

  The pastor of the Newnan Baptist church, Jesse H. Campbell, resigned to enter
the war as a volunteer evangelist, serving the four years. This minister was one
of the foremost men of his denomination; serving as State Agent for the Deaf and
Dumb for four years, he was able to prevail on the Legislature to establish the
Institute for the children so afflicted, at Cave Spring; at Lumpkin, he was
instrumental in establishing the Masonic Female College, and at Cuthbert, the
Baptist Female College; and otherwise served his day and denomination with
success and distinction; he wrote the first history of the Baptist denomination
in Georgia.

  (From a copy of "The Georgia Banner and Sentinel," J. A. Welch editor, of
November 1, 1861, sent by Editor D. B. Freeman, of the "Cartersville News" to
Editor James E. Brown of the "Newnan Herald" in January, 1914, is taken the
following account of events at that time: A committee of the Second District
Coweta Guards, composed of Peter F. Smith, Obadiah Wynn, Peter G. Perry, Abram
C. North, John W. Ward and Walker G. Camp published a letter, in reply to one
from Captain Sanders W. Lee, stating that he had heard the company preferred
Captain J. J. Neely to himself, and offering to resign. "We showed in electing
you our captain that we preferred you to anyone else." The same committee
thanked the Sappho Club of Newnan for a box of winter clothing, and the warm and
patriotic letter that accompanied it. An account of an engagement at Leesburg,
Virginia, 2,500 Confederates under General Evans routed 10,000 Federals under
General Stone and drove them across the river, capturing 520 (including 19
officers) and killing and wounding about 400 more-besides many who were drowned
getting over the river. The Confederates lost 300 in killed and wounded, but
captured 600 small arms, wagons loaded with provisions, ammunition and clothing.
A news item from a London paper gave much promise of the recognition of the
Confederate States by England and France. Thomas Swint advertises: "I have
closed out my entire stock of groceries and leave this day for the service of
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the Confederate States. My books and notes will be found in the office of J. E.
Dent. Those who have no money, call and give notes. E. M. Storey gives notice
that during his "absence from the State, Samuel Freeman, Esq., is authorized to
attend to my individual business as my attorney, and as well as to all business
connected with the estate of O. T. M. Nimmons, of which I am administrator."

  Captain R. L. Y. Long of the Coweta Rangers, stationed at Camp Davis, near
Lynchburg, Virginia, advertised for forty volunteers to serve as cavalrymen in
Phillips Georgia Legion, "The applicant must furnish a good horse and saddle and
bridle, those accepted will be furnished transportation to Viginia. The pay $24
a month." Many verses of doggerel sung to the tune of 'Old Dan Tucker,' ending:

    "So what can Daddy Lincoln see
     From Texas up to Tennessee?
     If I'm a judge of stumps and gravel
     The South's a hard old road to travel."

  R. D. Cole had an advertisement, headed "Steam Works," in which he mentions,
"sash, doors, blinds, made at short notice" and at "Berry's corner, near the
Coweta House, will be found a full assortment of bureaus, sofas, bedsteads,
chairs, center tables, corner stands, peapoys, book stands, secretaries,
enameled cottage suites, cribs, baby wagons, etc., in great variety, and very
cheap. Coffins of any style made when wanted. Window cornice, curtain fixtures,
door bells, moulding for picture frames, etc.,-all of which can be bought
cheaper than in any other market and brought here." He advertises Howe's sewing
machines at $50 to $75. He sold the first sewing machine ever brought to Newnan.
Other business houses were: J. M. Brown & Bros., staple and fancy dry goods; C.
L. Redwine, M. D., and L. H. Henry, drugs; Henry Keller, groceries; William Au,
shoemaker; T. G. Burpee, shoes and leather, with a "tannery 2 1/2 miles west of
Newnan, using 100 hides per week; George T. Marston, gunsmith; the firm, Ransom,
Potts & Co.-Wm. J. Ransome, W. A. Potts, and W. P. Nimmons- was dissolved; to be
succeeded by Henry Orr; as was the firm of T. P. Hilton & Co., composed of W.
L., T. P. and J. W. Hilton and J. W. Abrahams.

  The professions were represented by Dr. Joseph W. Wiley, dentist, who
succeeded J. TJ. L. Feemster, being highly recommended by him; Dr. C. L. Blair,
dentist; Dr. J. L. Mann and Dr. L. F. McLaughlin,
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dentists and partners; Dr. J. H. Strickland and Dr. A. C. Hindsman were
practicing at Grantville; Dr. Reese was the only Newnan doctor mentioned, but
there were several others-Dr. Calhoun for one.

  Five Atlanta firms had cards in the paper-Dimick, Wilson & Co., shoes,
Cherokee Block, "Peach-Tree" street; Rawson, Gilbert, and Burr, hardware, guns,
etc.; T. M. Clark, hardware; Massey & Lans-dell, drugs and medicines. Patent
medicines advertised were Radway's Ready Relief and Pulmonic Wafers.

  The Banner and Sentinel carried the official advertising of Meriwether,
Campbell and Heard counties as well as that of Coweta. It was well printed and
would compare creditably in appearance as well as in matter with papers of to-day.

                          Manassas Junction, Va., July 20, 1861.
Mr. A. N. Camp and Family:
  I will write you a few lines as perhaps you are anxious to hear all the
particulars of our trip and battle since you left. We started from Winchester
the evening after you left, about one o'clock, and inarched until three next
morning, when we stopped and rested two or three hours to (indecipherable name,
but I believe it was intended for Piedmont) where we lay over twenty-four hours
and then took the train and landed here Saturday at ten o'clock, and camped here
that night; on Sunday morning we were ordered-indecipherable-but the cannon had
been roaring for some time and we supposed we might get in a battle. The cannon
we heard the enemy was firing at one of our hospitals. We went in the direction
that the report came from for two or three miles and then went to the left and
it was not long before the news came to us that the ball was opened and to
prepare to enter. We were marched up in sight of the enemy and were exposed to
their cannon some time, and then marched to the battle, but we did not get to
fire at the enemy, but fell back to get the advantage of the ground and remained
there sometime. Whilst we were there the enemy tried to outflank us on the left,
but we took up a double-quick through and old field and there came into contact
with the Yankees. We charged on them as fast as we could and stood to our posts
as best we could, though, as we advanced, our men were falling on our right and
left, some killed and some wounded, cry-
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ing for help but we rushed on, though we were whipped at that time yet we could
not give it up, but continued to hold our position and advance until we were
reinforced, but before the reinforcement came, we had got to some of their
cannon, and they were giving back and not until this time did we think that we
would win the battle, but got them started, and whipped them as badly as ever an
army was whipped.

  We captured sixty pieces of their best cannon and twenty thousand stands of
arms and two hundred wagons and several ambulances and a great deal of
ammunition and their provisions and some of everything you can think of, even to
a great many hand-cuffs to take us all to Washington. I suppose it was as great
a victory as ever was won on the soil of America.

  I will write you about our own company, but will rest and eat dinner before I
write any more.

  Some of our company got lost and did not fight with us, but the most of them
joined some other regiment and did their best; some did not get in the battle at
all, but the most of them that went to the field were engaged. After we were
ordered to fall back, I started, and as I went back I saw, as I thought, Mark
North and I went to him; he was dead, but I did not see the other boys that were
killed, the rest told me who they were. After I had gone back, I decided I would
go and try them again, and Willie Bryant and myself went on again, and fired a
few rounds, and then returned to waiting on our wounded men, and it was as
trying a time as I ever witnessed, for every man was calling for help, and I
hated to refuse any. We carried water to all that we could. George B. Carmachael
was shot and C. M. Brown, he (C. M. B.) asked some of the boys to drag him off
so the Yankees would not get him, but he soon expired. They carried all the
wounded to Culpepper Court House, and the last we heard from them they were
doing well, only Pressly Russell died there. There is but one more of our boys
that was considered dangerously wounded, but we have not heard from him since we
sent Stokes with him, to wait on him. It was Dickard.

  They are still bringing in prisoners at all times, but I do not know how many
they have, but between one and two thousand. Enough of war news. I have had as
good health since you 
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left-or better than before. Judge was not able to go to the battlefield, but is
well now. Jacob is complaining some but is not very sick, I think just taking
cold. William Bryant has the measles, and James Jones is about like he was when
you left. Louis is well but we have several new cases of measles since we
arrived here. Jut Pinson has been complaining for two or three days, but nothing
serious.

  I will close, (I can't write half that I want to) by sending my love to all
the family and friends. Pray for us, Your brother until death,
                                 W. G. Camp.

  Mollie Lee and Lizzie Camp presented a flag to this company, which is now
possessed by Mrs. Mary Reynolds Brannon, of Moreland, daughter of Lizzie Camp.

A Wartime Marriage and Wedding Journey.

1863

  When William M. Reynolds was twenty-four years of age he came from his
Louisiana home to visit his kin, in Coweta County, Georgia, whence his parents
had removed eight or ten years previously. He was prosperous and handsome, and
more traveled and better read than the young men Elizabeth Camp met in her
country home. She was a beauty with wonderful black hair and splendid, brilliant
gray eyes- so dark they were usually considered black, an intelligent mind,
vivacious disposition, and sympathetic nature, but they were cousins and had no
thought of being sweethearts until, while William was courting Dollie Brewster,
whom his cousin had picked for a sweetheart for him, that young lady said: "You
are wasting your time talking to me; you are in love with Liz and she with you."
He realized the truth of her assertion and the beginning of sorrow. Lizzie was
only seventeen and her stern, Methodist-preacher-father was unalterably opposed
to cousins marrying. She would not stoop to deceive her father, or wound him by
defying; there was nothing left but a bitter parting. William returned to his
Western home and wrote time and again, vainly looking for a message that did not
come. Lizzie nearly died of grief; the quiet and loneliness of country life
afforded few diversions; those she had-long walks and horseback rides-did not
serve to take her thoughts off of her woe.
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  After three dreary years, the War between the States added its anxieties and
trials to her burden, but the necessity for service, from women as well as men,
took her mind off herself. She helped make a beautiful silk flag for her
brothers' company, A of the 7th Georgia Regiment, knitted dozen of socks, made
shirts and uniforms and prayed.

  One day in July 1863, William, on crutches from rheumatism, appeared at the
home of Lizzie's sister, Mrs. Martha McClure, and sent his sweetheart word by
her sister's children that he would be at Aunt Polly's (that was Mrs. Mary
Reynolds Camp, his father's, and her mother's sister, who lived near), if she
cared to see him.

  Immediately she went to her father and said: "William is at Aunt Polly's, I am
going to see him."

  "You are of age and free to do as you please," he answered.

  They were married the next Monday morning, July 6th. My mother used to say it
was the saddest day of her life, with four brothers away in the army, her father
refusing, from disapproval, to see her married, and her mother from sorrow, only
her two young brothers, her sisters, and some little nephews and nieces, with
her, and a long hazardous journey (that required getting through the Yankee
lines at Vicksburg) before them, in order to reach his home in Louisiana.

  The wedding-journey tested her mettle in many ways: hours of waiting alone on
the riverbank at Vicksburg, surround by thousands of fugitive slaves, while
William stood a grilling by the Adjutant in in command of the Yankees (he had
borrowed a preacher's license to get by on); riding a mule bare-backed without a
bridle, at night- when their wagon broke down in the added gloom of a
Mississippi swamp-amidst the dangers of overhanging branches; but she was equal
to all the tests.

  "Wait," called Papa, while loosing his own mule.

  "I can't," Mama's voice trailed back, "the mule doesn't want to."

  Mama was the embodiment of energy and full of spirit; to her last day, out of
bed, she stepped like a young girl. As her soul left her body, to her always
shining eyes, there was added a glory that was eloquent of the beauties beyond
the veil.

  Papa was a philosopher having a mind far ahead of his time believing in
women's enfranchisement and dress-reform.

  College Temple's graduates this year chose, with the true spirit of patriotism
that filled all hearts at that time, to make their graduating
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dresses of homespun cloth. The names of the members of the Class 1863 are
precious to the annals of this county, not only for that act of devotion, but
for all the years of their lives of beauty and service. They were: Cornelia
Brown Smith (Mrs. McGruder), Quitman, Ga., Carrie Eliza Long, Carrollton,
Georgia, (Mrs. Shields) Jasper, Alabama, Georgia Catherine Rodgers, Carroll
county (Mrs. Smith, Palmetto, Georgia), Dalton Bird Martin, Carroll county,
(Mrs. Bevil, Valdosta, Georgia), Rebecca Susan Burch, Thomasville (Mrs. Hunter,
Newnan), Isora Burch, Thomasville (Mrs. Hardaway, Newnan), Mary Elizabeth
Freeman, Newnan, Martha Catherine Wilkinson, Newnan, (Mrs. Daniel, Atlanta).
Mrs. Mary E. Bigby, Newnan, honorary.

  Anderson writes: "Our county began to feel the pressure of the war and many
saw hard times while husbands, fathers and sons were in the army but all bore it
bravely-with a few exceptions of such as shrank from duty and were sympathetic
with the enemy. In my opinion they deserve a more lasting stigma and disgrace
than the Tories of the Revolutionary war."

  He records the deaths of Lieutenant E. M. Storey, casualty of the war; the
aged Mrs. Elizabeth Cole, eighty-four; Mrs. Mary Herrin, seventy-four born in
North Carolina; John Simms, an old man but age not known.

  A copy of "The Southern Literary Companion" for this year, No. 38, of Vol. IV,
of which J. C. Wooten was editor; W. H. Meigs the publisher, I. N. Davis, Sr.,
owner; Miss C. W. Barber, editress of the women's department; the subscription
price "$5 a year, invariably in advance," having a poem by Mrs. Woodroof: "A
Chime from the Bells of Memory;" the report of an address by Lieutenant M. F,
Maury, at the University of the South, on, "The Bible and Science," that seems
more in keeping with the thought of to-day than with that of 1863; "Woman and
Marriage," by Washington Irving; "Racing for a Husband," by Ada Alton; "A
Splendid Specimen of Welch Preaching;" Poem: "On the Death of Mary Susan" infant
of W. P. and N. J. Nimmons, by C. W. Barber; Anecdote of General Ewell; Poem on
the death of Stonewall Jackson; Editorial: "The Great Reconciler;" "The Leper's
House;" a news summary; a recipe: "To Pickle Cucumbers;" Notice of Exchange (of
prisoners) No. 6; names of men taken prisoners at Vicksburg who had been
exchanged; political announcements.
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1864

  Rev. Francis Marion Daniel, came to Newnan in February, 1863, as chaplain to
the hospital. He had served fifteen months in the army as chaplain, while a
soldier in the ranks. While ministering to the sick and dying, on May 26, 1864,
he was married to Mattie C, daughter of Major U. B. Wilkinson, and later, in
December, same year, accepted a call to the pastorate of the Newnan Baptist
church. From a sketch of him in, "A History of the Baptist Denomination in
Georgia," Mr. Daniel . . . . has risen out of the depths of obscurity to an
honorable rank among men of ability and usefulness." The indomitable energy and
perseverance that procured him the foundation of an education after he was
eighteen "runs like a golden thread through the warp and woof of his whole life.
Other qualities: honesty and fair-dealing in business, sympathy with the
suffering, generosity to the destitute, fidelity to friends, forbearance to
opponents, self-contro under excitement have all contributed to his success."

  The west side of the square and the Seminary building were burned.

  The Nashville Banner and the Winchester Journal, both Tennessee papers, were
published in Newnan by their refugeeing owners, E. S. Buchanan, recalls, A. S.
Colyer, owner of the Nashville Banner, owned the Coweta House, the chief hotel
in Newnan for several years, but no item relating to the presence of Mars' Henry
Watterson has been found.

  It is very gratifying that the name of Missouri H. Stokes, of Decatur,
Georgia, belongs to the list of faithful teachers of the county. She was one of
the teachers in Grantville during the war period (1861-65) but the exact time is
not known. Later she was for many years corresponding secretary of the Georgia
Woman's Christian Temperance Union and a beloved friend of the writer.
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Additional Comments:
Citation:
COWETA COUNTY CHRONICLES FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS WITH

An Account of the Indians from Whom the Land was Acquired

AND
Some Historical Papers Relating to its Acquisition by Georgia, with Lineage Pages.

EDITED AND COMPILED BY MARY G. JONES AND LILY REYNOLDS
FOR
SARAH DICKINSON CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 
OF NEWNAN, GEORGIA

THE STEIN PRINTING COMPANY
ATLANTA, GA.
1928


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