| Abstract |
Collection contains correspondence, a sketchbook, photographs, and other miscellaneous items. Correspondence includes Civil War topics, such as the strategy the commander of the Merrimack employed against Union ships near Old Point in April, 1862; two letters from Eliza M. Groner to Sgt. George W. Davis, a Confederate prisoner of war in Elmira, N.Y; and a letter from Pvt. George Wynne, a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France, that describes the Kaiser's Hindenburg Line and liberating French civilians from the Germans. Other correspondence describes President Harding's death, conditions in Maryland after Hurricane Hazel, and the desegregation of Baltimore public schools. Of particular interest is a sketchbook containing sermons by Dr. William Henry Wills, founder of Bethesda Church. Other items include minutes of the organizational meetings of the Bethesda Church Sunday School and a list of the Sunday School members, a report card of Lucy Cary Wills from Elba Female Seminary, party invitations, a deed conveying the Bethesda Church property, Bethesda Church Roll, a Certificate of the Brotherhood of the N.C. Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, notes concerning the location of the Elba Female Seminary, Reverend J. H. Page's obituary, pictures of the Reverend William Henry Wills, and miscellaneous items. |
