A new exhibit featuring Civil War artifacts and materials from the library’s Special Collections is on display in the Ground Floor atrium of Ingram Library through March 2012. Artifacts from the Waring Archaeology Lab include salvage from the sunken warship CSS Nashville.
The Fannie Hargrave collection features letters and daguerreotypes of a Carroll County bride whose Confederate officer husband was killed in a raid in Cedartown. Another letter from a Coweta County soldier informs a Villa Rica woman with seven children how her Confederate soldier husband died of dysentery and measles in Mississippi.
The exhibit is held in conjunction with the five-part reading and discussion series “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War,” which will begin on Sunday, January 15, with subsequent discussions on alternate Sunday afternoons through March 11. Registration is open to members of the community, as well as to university affiliates at https://apps.westga.edu/limesurvey/index.php?sid=19159&lang=en.
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