THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Editor John C. Inscoe Assistant Editor Sheree H. Bendy Graduate Assistants David H. McGee Lesley Jill Gordon-Burr VOLUME LXXVI 1992 Published quarterly by the Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, in cooperation with the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of History, University of Georgia CONTENTS OF VOLUME LXXVI The Case of Stirrup and Edwards, 1861-1870: The Kidnap¬ ping and Georgia Enslavement of West Indian Blacks By Eugene H. Berwanger 1 Georgians on the Western Frontier: The Cheyenne Massacre and Captivity of a Fanning County Family By Charlton Moseley 19 Review Fsswy!Richard Brevard Russell: “The Georgia Giant” By Willard B. Gatewood 46 Review Y.?,^2vylRusks on Rusk: A Georgian’s Life as Collabora¬ tive Autobiography By George C. Herring 58 Notes and Documents/Zn Search of Cumberland Island’s Dungeness: Its Origins and English Antecedents By Mary R. Bullard 67 Notes and Documents/yawi^5 Oglethorpe’s Account of the 1745 Escape of the Scots at Shap By Edward J. Cashin 87 Notes and Documents/Locowoh’wi to Latin America: The Marietta Connection During World War 1 By Eugene R. Huck 100 Georgia History in PicturesM University Goes to War: The Navy at the University of Georgia During World War II By F. N. Boney and Gary L. Doster 115 Introduction to Special Issue on Women in Georgia and the South By Anne Firor Scott 237 Of Lily, Linda Brent, and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Ap¬ proach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slaveholding South By Nell Irvin Painter 241 Free African-American Women in Savannah, 1800-1860: Au¬ tonomy and Affluence Amid Adversity By Whittington Johnson 260 wnm-'" Northern Women in the South, 1860-1880 By Ruth Currie-McDaniel 284 Bloody Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence During Reconstruction By Catherine Clinton 313 Encounters, Likely and Unlikely, Between Black and Poor White Women in the Rural South, 1865-1940 By Jacqueline Jones 333 Rebecca Latimer Felton and the Wife’s Farm: The Class and Racial Politics of Gender Reform By LeeAnn Whites 354 Lillian Smith and the Transformation of American Liberalism By Randall Patton 373 Review Y.?,%zylDixie’s Daughter: Margaret Mitchell Reconsid¬ ered By Bruce Clayton 393 Review EssaylHidden Lives: Georgia’s Free Women of Color By James L. Roark 410 Review Essay//n Search of Southern Women’s History: The Current State of Academic Publishing By Catherine Clinton 420 Notes and Documents/T/ic Myths of Mary Musgrove By Rodney M. Baine 428 Notes and Documents/" Wntmg' is Fighting Too”: The World War 11 Correspondence of Southern Women By Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith 436 Georgia History in Pictures/C/oZ/img as an Expression of History: The Dress of African-American Georgia Women, 1880-1915 By Patricia K. Hunt 459 Ease and Elegance, Madeira and Murder: The Social Life of Savannah's City Hotel By Malcolm Bell, Jr. 551 On the Front Line of Freedom: Freedmen’s Bureau Officers and Agents in Reconstruction Georgia By Paul A. Cimbala 577 “The Sad Duty of Politics”: Jimmy Carter and the Issue of Race in His 1970 Gubernatorial Campaign By Randy Sanders 612 Review Essdcy/The Making of a Dreamer: The Georgia Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. By Lewis V. Baldwin 639 Georgia History in ¥'ict\on/The Confederate Home Front Sanitized: Joel Chandler Harris’ On the Plantation and Sectional Reconciliation By John C. Inscoe 652 Notes and Documents/G^orgia By Gaslight: Glimpses of Macon from Letters of the City Gas Light Superintendent, 1859-1862 By Jeffrey Alan Owens 675 Georgia History in Pictures/"Smc/i Excitement You Never Saw”: Gold Mining in Nineteenth-Century Georgia By David Williams 695 “To Be Better Supplied Than Any Hotel in the Confederacy”: The Establishment and Maintenance of the Army of Tennes¬ see Hospitals in Georgia, 1863-1865 By Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein 809 World War 11 Prisoners of War in Georgia: German Memories of Camp Gordon, 1943-1945 By Kathy Roe Coker 837 Review Essay/Stealing Sheetrock By James E. Goodman 862 Georgia History in ¥iction/The American South as Depicted in Gone With the Wind; A Russian Historian’s Observa- By Irina M. Suponitskaya 876 Notes and DocumentsM German Surgeon on the Flora and Fauna of Colonial Georgia: Four Letters of Johann Chris¬ toph Bomemann, 1753-1755 By George Fenwick Jones 891 Georgia History in Pictures/Daum of a New Era: Gold Min¬ ing in Twentieth-Century Georgia By David Williams 915 Annual Bibliography/G^orgia History in 1991 BOOK REVIEWS 11 28, 472, 708, 937 BOOK NOTES 224, 542, 795 NEWS AND NOTICES 233, 547, 802, 1020 INDEX i h d'*- mt •s i 1 I t .1 [■ r ► .1