The Georgia Reading Room

Below are links to digitized books relating to Georgia found on the internet:

Georgia Place Names, Third Edition Kenneth K. Krakow, 1999
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, Founder of the Colony of Georgia in North America Thaddeus Mason Harris, 1841
Miscellanies of Georgia, historical, biographical, descriptive, etc Absalom H. Chappell, 1874
Letter from Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia, to the Republican senators and representatives, in Congress who sustain the reconstruction acts Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1870
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War Frances Butler Leigh, 1883
Radical rule; military outrage in Georgia. Arrest of Columbus prisoners; with facts connected with their imprisonment and release Printed by J. P. Morton and company, 1868

A compilation of the penal code of the State of Georgia : with forms of bills of indictment necessary in prosecutions under it, and the rules of practice / by Howell Cobb A history of Tybee Island, Ga. : and a sketch of the Savannah & Tybee Railroad / Beale H. Richardson

A manual of Georgia for the use of immigrants and capitalists / prepared under the direction of Thomas P. Janes, commissioner of agriculture

A memoir of General James Oglethorpe : one of the earliest re formers of prison discipline in England, and the founder of Georgia, in America / by Robert Wright

"A review of the first volume of Alexander H. Stephens's ""War between the states"" / by Constitutionalist"

A sketch of the life and time s and speeches of Joseph E. Brown

A treatise on the constitution of Georgia, giving the origin, history and development of the fundamental law of the state, with all constitutional documents containing such law, and with the present constitution, as amended to date, with annotations / by Walter McElreath

A voice from the South : comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the southern states : with an appendix containing an article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot proviso together with the fourth article of the Constitution, the Law of Congress, the Nullification law of Pennsylvania, the Resolutions of ten of the free states, the Resolutions of Virginia, Georgia and Alabama, and Mr. Calhoun's resolutions in the Senate of the United States

"Address delivered before the Confederate Survivor's Association of Augusta, Georgia : upon the occasion of its seventeenth annual reunion, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1895 / by Captain F. Edgeworth Eve, President of the Association; and the historian's report submitted by Charles Edgeworth Jones. Together with Colonel Joseph B. Cumming's speech introducing General M.C. Butler, General Butler's narrative, and John R. Thompson's poem, ""Lee to the rear"""

Advice to young men : and a sketch of Nacoochee, Georgia and its surroundings / by George Walton Williams

After the war : a southern tour : May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866 / by Whitelaw Reid

Alexander Hamilton Stephens :an address commemorating the one-hundreth anniversary of his birth / delivered by Joseph Henry Lumpkin ... at Crawfordville, Georgia, July 4, 1912

An address delivered before the Confederate Survivors' Association, in Augusta, Georgia : at its second annual meeting, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1880 / by Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr.

An address delivered before the Confederate Survivors' Association, in Augusta, Georgia, at its first annual meeting, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1879 / by Col. Charles C. Jones

An address delivered before the Confederate Survivors' Association, in Augusta, Georgia, at its third annual meeting, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1881 / by Charles C. Jones

Bill Arp, so called : a sides how of the Southern side of the war / illustrated by M. A. Sullivan

Biographic etchings of ministers and laymen of the Georgia conferences / by W. J. Scott

Biographical memorials of James Oglethorpe : founder of the colony of Georgia in North America / by Thaddeus Mason Harris

Biographical sketches of the delegates from Georgia to the Continental Congress / by Charles C. Jones, Jr.

Boyhood and other days in Georgia / by George W. Yarbrough ; edited by H.M. Du Bose

Can a negro hold office in Georgia? / decided in Supreme court of Georgia, June term, 1869. Arguments of counsel, with the opinions of the judges, and the decision of court in the case of Richard W. White, clerk of Superior court of Chatham co., plaintiff in error, versus the state of Georgia, ex relatione, Wm. J. Clements, defendant in error. Quo warranto. Chatham / phonographically reported by Eugene Davis

Clarke County, Ga. and the city of Athens / by Charles Morton Strahan

Corona of the Nantahalas : a romance / by Louis Pendleton

Dukesborough tales / by Philemon Perch

Echoes from the battlefield : or, Southern life during the war / by Noble C. Williams of Atlanta, Ga.

Etowah : a romance of the confederacy / by Francis Fontaine

Facts and figures vs. myths and misrepresentations : Henry Wirz and the Andersonville prison / Mildred Lewis Rutherford

Funeral oration : pronouncedin the Opera House in Augusta Georgia : December 11th, 1889, upon the occasion of the memorial services in honor of President Jefferson Davis / by Charles C. Jones, Jr.

General Sherman's march from Atlanta to the coast : an address delivered before the Confederate Survivor's Association, in Augusta, Georgia, at its sixth annual meeting, on Memorial Day, April 26, 1884 / by Col. Charles C. Jones

Georgia Baptists : historical and biographical / by J. H. Campbell

Georgia in the war, 1861-1865/ by Chas. Edgeworth Jones

Georgia land and people / by Frances Letcher Mitchell

History of Columbus / compiled by the Georgia History Class of the Columbus High School

In the wire-grass : a novel / by Louis Pendleton

Inside view of slavery : or, A tour among the planters / by C.G. Parsons, M.D. ; with an introductory note by Mrs. H.B. Stowe

Is the Catholic Church the deadliest menace to our liberties and our civilization? : reply to Thomas E. Watson / by C. A. Windle

Journal of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the people of Georgia : held in the City of Atlanta in the months of December, 1867, and January, February and March, 1868, and ordinances and resolutions adopted / published by order of the Convention

Life and times of Jonathan Bryan, 1708-1788 / by Mrs. J. H. Redding

Life in Dixie during the war: 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865 / Mary A.H. Gay

Lyddy : a tale of the old South / by Eugenia J. Bacon

Memorial of Charles C. Jones,jr., L. L. D. : with regard to a subscription on the part of the state to his History of Georgia

Memories and annals / by Charles Spalding Wylly

Northern Georgia sketches / by Will N. Harden

Old times in middle Georgia / by Richard Malcolm Johnston

Personal recollections of Sherman's campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas / by Capt. George W. Pepper

Radical rule : military outrage in Georgia, arrest of Columbus prisoners ; with facts connected with their imprisonment and release

Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens : his diary kept when a prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, 1865 ; giving incidents and reflections of his prison life and some letters and reminiscences / edited, with a biographical study, by Myrta Lockett Avary

Recollections of pioneer days in Georgia / by James S. Lamar

Rural survey of Clarke county, Georgia, with special reference to the Negroes

Sam P. Jones, the preacher / by George R. Stuart

Sanitary conditions among the Negroes of Athens, Georgia

Sermons and speeches / by Atticus G. Haygood

Sketches and incidents in the life of Elder Amos Hadaway, of Flowery Branch, Georgia : together with sermons on the fallen angels, and the figure of Pharaoh's horses, and a circular letter to the churches / written by himself

Slavery and the race problem in the South : with special reference to the state of Georgia : address / of Hon. Wm. H. Fleming, before the Alumni society of the state university, Athens, June 19, 1906

Stories with a moral, humorous and descriptive of southern life a century ago / by Augustus B. Longstreet, compiled and edited by Fitz R. Longstreet

The correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb / edited by Ulrich B. Phillips

The education of the Negro : its rise, progress and present status / being an address delivered before the National Educational Association at its late meeting at Chautauqua, N.Y. by Gustavus J. Orr

The evacuation of Battery Wagner, and the battle of Ocean Pond : An address delivered before the Confederate Survivors Association in Augusta, Georgia, on the occasion of its tenth annual reunion on Memorial Day, April 26, 1888 / by Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr. ; printed by order of the association

The history of Georgia in the eighteenth century : as recorded in the reports of the Georgia bar association / compiled by Orvile A. Park ; read before the thirty-eighth annual session of the Georgia bar association at Tybee Island, Georgia, June 3, 1921

The history, objects and achievements of the Georgia Bar Association : paper / by Walter B. Hill

The making of a statesman and other stories / by Joel Chandler Harris

The master of the hills : a tale of the Georgia Mountains / by Sarah Johnson Cocke

The M'Donalds : or, The ashes of southern homes a tale of Sherman's march / by William Henry Peck

The modern pariah : a story of the South / by Francis Fontaine

The new South / by Henry W. Grady ; with a character sketch of Henry W. Grady by Oliver Dyer

The Old South : addresses delivered before the Confederate Survivors' Association in Augusta, Georgia, on the occasion of its ninth annual reunion, on Memorial Day, April 26th, 1887 / by John B. Gordon and by Charles C. Jones

The Primes and their neighbors : ten tales of middle Georgia / by Richard Malcolm Johnston

The reconstruction of Georgia/ by Edwin C. Woolley

"The recording angel / by Corra Harris, author of "" A Circuit Rider's Wife,"" ""Eve's Second Husband,"" etc. ; illustrated by W.H. Everett"

"The reviewers reviewed : a supplement to the ""War between the states,"" etc., with an appendix in review of ""Reconstruction,"" so called / by Alexander H. Stephens"

The seed that was sown in the colony of Georgia : the harvest and the aftermath, 1740-1870 / by Charles Spalding Wylly

The sons of Ham : a tale of the new South / by Louis Pendleton

The southern states since the war, 1870-71 / by Robert Somers

The University of Georgia : a short history of its endowment and legal status, as a defense of its administration, together with a defense of the constitutions of the United States and of Georgia against the charge of hostility to the Christian religion / N. J. Hammond

The young marooners on the Florida coast / by F. R. Goulding ; with introduction by Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus)

White Marie : a story of Georgian plantation life / by Will N. Harben

With Kilpatrick around Atlanta : a paper read before the Wisconsin Commandery, M.O.L.L.U.S., December 1st, 1886 / by George I. Robinson

Woodward's reminiscences of the Creek or Muscogee Indians, contained in letters to friends in Georgia and Alabama / by Thomas S. Woodward, of Louisiana (formerly of Alabama) ; with an appendix containing interesting matter relating to the general subject

The Georgia 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer contains a listing of all Georgia towns and communties in 1885 as well as links to Georgia county maps from the Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World from 1885.

The Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, created by Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, has many historical maps of Georgia Counties.. The USGenWeb Archives Georgia Digital Map Library contains many historical Georgia maps from pre-colonial days to the present.

The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century. The collection provides a graphic resource upon which scholars can draw in re-discovering the minds and movements of early American explorers, revolutionary statesmen, cultural figures and politicians represented by the library's book and manuscript collections.

The Library of Congress American Memory Project contains many archival maps of Georgia spanning hundreds of years.

The University of Alabama Historical Maps of Georgia site contains many archival maps of Georgia spanning the years 1779-1976. Included in this collection are out-of-print Georgia quadrangle maps in the 15 and 30 minute series.