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Excerpt from A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Vol. 1
In the nature of things, there are many defects and omissions in this work which the author herewith presents to the public, but the narrative of events, so far as it proceeds, is based upon documentary evidence pre served in the state's existing records. These include the Executive Min utes, kept in the governor's office, House and Senate Journals, Acts of the General Assembly, Letter Books, etc., in addition to which the news paper files of Savannah, Augusta, Milledgeville, Macon, and Atlanta have been carefully searched. The author wishes to record his especial indebtedness to the following writers on Georgia topics: Prof. U. B. Phillips, of the University of Michigan; Prof. R. P. Brooks, of the Uni versity of Georgia; Prof. L. B. Evans, superintendent of the Augusta public schools; Prof. J. R. Mccain, of Agnes Scott College; Prof. Joseph T. Derry, of the Department of Commerce and Labor of the State of Georgia; Mr. Charles Edgeworth Jones, of Augusta, and others, from all of whom substantial cooperation and help have been received in the preparation bf these pages, and to each of whom the author makes grate ful acknowledgment very forefront of this work.
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