Creator
Baber-Blackshear family
Baber family
Blackshear family

Date of Original
1796/1939

Subject
Soldiers--Georgia
Sailors--Georgia--Diaries
Dance teachers--Georgia
Acting teachers--Georgia
Dueling--Georgia
Boarding schools--Georgia
Ambassadors--Sardinia (Italy)
Enslaved persons--Georgia
Slavery
South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Sardinia (Italy)--Description and travel
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Georgia--Social life and customs
United States. Navy--Sea life
Montpelier Institute (Monroe County, Ga.)
Confederate States of America. Army

People
Atkinson, George Baber, 1843-1923
Atkinson, Fannie
Smith, George Dunbar Sweet, 1839-1865
Blackshear, Lucy Marion Baber, 1837-1894
Blackshear, J. William (Joseph William), 1833-1906
Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856

Location
Italy, Sardinia, 40.06160405, 9.097753806553065
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675

Medium
journals (accounts)
account books

Type
Text

Description
The collection consists of the papers of the Baber, Blackshear, and Baber-Blackshear families from 1796-1939 and includes correspondence, journals, ledgers, news clippings, invitations, programs, speeches, and newspapers. The early part of the collection relates to Dr. Ambrose Baber and contains information on the 1802 William Hunter-David Mitchell duel (Savannah, Ga.); Baber's term as Charge'd Affaires to Sardinia, including correspondence from John MacPherson Berrien (1842-1844); and the establishment of the Montpelier Institute in Monroe County, Georgia.
The bulk of the collection falls after 1846. It contains correspondence and journals of George Francis Burleigh Baber during his naval service on the John Adams, Germantown, Dale, and Porpoise. Also included is Civil War correspondence consisting of letters from Joseph William Blackshear of Jackson's Artillery from Camp Brown, St. Simons Island, Georgia, as well as George Dunbar Sweet Smith, who served in South Carolina and Virginia. The remainder of the collection consists of personal correspondence between Marion and William Blackshear; their children Ella, Paul, Birdie, and Minnie Baber-Blackshear; relatives; and friends.
Edward Ambrose Baber (1793-1846), physician of Buckingham County, Virginia and later Bibb County, Georgia. Married Mary Eliza Sweet (1810-1894) in 1829. Children include George Francis Burleigh (1833-1854), Naval officer; Lucy Marion (1836-1894); and Ella Hunter (1839-1930). Lucy Marion married Joseph William Blackshear (1833-1906), teacher, accountant, and Civil War soldier of Macon, Georgia. Their children Ella, Paul, Birdie, Mary (Minnie) took as their surname Baber-Blackshear.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_0011

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights