The History of the Medical College of Georgia
The History of the Medical College of Georgia

Author: Phinizy Spalding

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 082034222X

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Phinizy Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course filled with great achievement and near-fatal adversity, Spalding shows how the life of the college has been intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment. When the Medical Academy of Georgia opened its doors in 1828 to a class of seven students, the total number of degreed physicians in the state was fewer than one hundred. Spalding traces the history of the Academy through its early robust growth in the antebellum years; its slowed progress during the Civil War; its decline and hardships during the early half of the twentieth century; and finally its resurgence and a new era of optimism starting in the 1950s.

Requiem for a Lost City
Requiem for a Lost City

Author: Sarah Conley Clayton

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780865546226

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Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.

A Clashing of the Soul
A Clashing of the Soul

Author: Leroy Davis

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780820319872

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John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, was one of the most distinguished in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century black educators. Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. Hope became to black college education what Booker T. Washington was to black industrial education. Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. Along with his good friend W. E. B. Du Bois, Hope was at the forefront of the radical faction of black leaders in the early twentieth century, but he found himself taking more moderate stances in order to obtain philanthropic funds for black higher education. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society.

Confederate City
Confederate City

Author: Florence Fleming Corley

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780871524942

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CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 by Dr. Florence Fleming Corley is one of Augusta's most valued historical works. Dr. Corley's book draws on exhaustive research in public records, newspaper files, books, personal correspondence & diaries. She gives detailed information & drawings of the great Ammunitions Center located in Augusta, the Confederate Powder Works & paints vivid pictures of the area hospitals, refugees & conditions confronting the women of Augusta during the war. CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 is a must for every Civil War buff's library. CONFEDERATE CITY: AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1860-1865 is available through the Richmond County Historical Society, c/o Reese Library, Augusta College, 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904-2200. $35.00 & $2.50 postage. Also available through the society are: THE STORY OF AUGUSTA by Dr. Ed Cashin ($35.00 & $2.50 postage); AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CITY IN ARMS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1861-1865, by Berry Fleming ($20.00 & $2.50 postage); SUMMERVILLE: A PICTORIAL HISTORY by Dr. Helen Callahan ($45.00 & $2.50 postage); & JOURNAL OF ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, ESQ., AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE REBELS OF GEORGIA IN NORTH AMERICA, 1778, edited by Colin Campbell ($25.00 & $2.50 postage).

Military Bibliography of the Civil War Volume 4
Military Bibliography of the Civil War Volume 4

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 1072

ISBN-13:

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Volume IV: Compiled and revised by Silas Felton. 1063 pp., revised with books missed in vols. I,II, and III, regimental publications, personal narratives, biographies, campaigns and battles, Northern and Southern. Felton?s new compilation is without peer. He covers the subject from five different perspectives: Regimental Publications and Personal Narratives, Union and Confederate Biographies, General References, Armed Forces and Campaigns and Battles.And, making the work extremely useful, the last 236 pages contain a complete Index of Authors of Volumes I through IV as well as a new Index of Titles in the Revised Volume IV.Furthermore, to clear up confusion created by the multiple names often used by Confederate units during the war ? artillery batteries in particular ? which carried a state designation but were commonly known by the battery commander?s name, Felton has cited a written work with a single number designation but indexed and listed it under its common appellation to aid the researcher and eliminate confusion.