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Joseph Frederick Waring II papers
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Joseph Frederick Waring II (September 12, 1902-April 8, 1972), was a local Savannah, Georgia, historian and preservationist. Waring, the son of Pinckney Alston and Lillie Ellis Waring, was born in Savannah where he grew up and received his early education. He was a graduate of Governor Dummer Academy in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the oldest private school in the United States, and of Yale University. He also attended Cambridge University in England and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 1953, Waring married Julianna Fitch of Hudson, Ohio. Waring taught English for 32 years at the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, until his retirement in 1967. During World War II, he served in the American Field Service as an ambulance driver and served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa. Following the war he taught for a year at the American Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. Following his retirement as a teacher in Ohio, Waring returned to Savannah, with his wife, where he became active in academic and community affairs. He taught for short periods at Savannah State College and Savannah County Day School. At various times he served as the curator and president of the Georgia Historical Society, vice-president of the Poetry Society of Georgia, trustee of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, president of the Save-the-Bay Committee, a founder of the Victorian Society of Savannah, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Wormsloe Foundation. Waring arranged the records of the Georgia Medical Society and arranged for their transfer to the Georgia Historical Society. At the time of his death he was compiling a history of Christ Church, Savannah, with the rector emeritus, the Rev. F. Bland Tucker. Waring was editor of Uncle Remus, by Joel Chandler Harris, published in England while he was a student at Cambridge, author of James W. Ellsworth and the refounding of Western Reserve Academy, published in 1961, and author of Cerveau's Savannah published in 1973 by the Georgia Historical Society. Some of Waring's research included in this collection is centered on the Jeff Davis Cavalry Legion. The Jeff Davis Cavalry Legion was organized in January 1862, formed with the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. The unit contained two Alabama, one Georgia, and three Mississippi companies. The Georgia company, the Georgia Hussars, was organized in 1736 in Savannah, Georgia. In 1861, the Hussars made their services available to the Confederate Government, 'free of all cost to the government as far as Richmond, Virginia.' The Georgia Hussars left for Richmond in September 1861. Once there, the Hussars were transferred to the Jeff Davis Legion, becoming Company F of the unit. The Jeff Davis Legion served under Generals Hampton, Butler, and P.M.B. Young. They participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williarnsburg to Cold Harbor, and were active at Brandy Station, Gettysburg, and in the Bristoe Campaign. In 1865, the unit was assigned to General Logan's Brigade and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The unit's field officers were Colonel William T. Martin, Lieutenant Colonels William G. Conner and J. Frederick Waring I (of the Georgia Hussars), and Majors Ivey F. Lewis and W.M. Stone.
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The Joseph Frederick Waring II papers (1821-1972) contain advertisements, broadsides, business records, correspondence, diaries, drawings, estate records, clippings, lectures, maps, minutes, muster rolls, notes, pamphlets, photographs, poems, property records, reports. and scrapbooks. The collection includes papers and genealogies on the Waring family, research materials on the Jeff Davis Legion, reasearch materials on Waring's publication Cerveau's Savannah, and papers and talks given by Waring. Waring family members included in the collection are Joseph Frederick Waring (1832-1876), James Johnston Waring (1829-1888), Mary Alston Waring, Thomas Pickney Waring (1867-1943), and William Richard Waring (1787-1843).
Family names documented in this collection that are associated with the Warings include Alston, Brewton, Ellis, Houstoun, Huger, Johnston, Motte, Myers, Newell, Rutledge, and Trist. Businesses and organizations represented in the collection include Mutual Fertilizer Company, Bowker Fertilizer Company, Cumberland Bone Company, Apalachicola Turpentine Company, Isaac, Low and Company, Adams Express Company, Marshall Hose Company of Savannah, Webb-Waring Institute, Georgia Medical Society, and Save-the-Bay Committee. Waring's materials on the history of the Jeff Davis Legion include information on the Georgia Hussars, 10th Georgia Volunteers, Company G, Liberty Independent Troop, 20th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry, Company K, Georgia Regiment, and other units from Alabama and Mississippi.
Other subjects included in the papers are the yellow fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876; various Savannah banks, churches, cemeteries, hospitals, schools, wards; and historical figures in Savannah including Richard Dennis Arnold; Firmin Cerveau, Bishop Stephen Elliott, Joseph LeConte, Alexander Smets, and Israel K. Tefft.
The collection is arranged into the following five series: Series 1. Waring family papers and genealogies in boxes 1-17; Series 2. The Jeff Davis Legion in boxes 18-23; Series 3. Cerveau's Savannah and Savannah notes in boxes 24-26; Series 4. Papers and talks in box 27; and Series 5. Photographs and drawings in boxes VM1-VM5.
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Artifacts were separated and cataloged with the Georgia Historical Society Artifacts Collection.
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A microfilm reader is required to view portions of this collection.
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
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GHS 1275, Joseph Frederick Waring II papers, 1821-1972. Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
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Location & Availability of Originals
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Joseph Frederick Waring I's Civil War diary (Box 7) located in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The letter by G. H. Waring to W. J. Northen on behalf of John McIntosh Kell (folder 86) and the letter from Barrington S. King (folder 224) located in Georgia Department of Archives and History. The estate account of William R. Waring I (folder 112) is located in the Chatham County Courthouse. The William H. Ker letters (folder 222) and the letters of Brisland Shields (folder 238) are located at Louisiana State University. Richard Dennis Arnold, scrapbook (folder 364) located at Duke University.
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General Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, of relevance to this collection, is held in GHS's rare pamphlet collection, accessible via the library catalogue. Ask staff for further assistance.
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