Annals of Athens Georigia 1801-1901

ANNALS OF ATHENS, GEORGIA, by Augustus Longstreet Hull, 1906, reprinted 1878 with additions and corrections, 2014 edition.This leading reference of Athens, Georgia’s history and genealogies was written by a descendant of one of the city’s founders. A short history traces the evolution from a frontier settlement called “Cedar Shoals” on the Oconee River, through the establishment of Franklin College, now the University of Georgia, the trauma of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South down to 1900. Rare early photographs of Athens have been included.Here are detailed lists of men who served in various Confederate military units, some marriages and genealogies of local families: Bancroft, Barrow, Billups, Camak, Carlton, Clayton, Cobb, Church, Dearing, Dorsey, Dougherty, Espey, Golding, DeLaPierre, Gouvain, Grant, Hamilton, Harris, Hill, Hillyer, Hodgson, Hoyt, Hull, Jackson, Linton, Long, Lucas, Lumpkin, Mitchell, Moore, Morton, Moss, Newton, Nisbet, Phinizy, Reese, Rutherford, Stanley, Stovall, Talmadge, Taylor, Thomas, Waddel, Ware, Williams, and White.