ms_1932.xml Finding Aid to the William G. Caruthers Confederate States passport, 1863 Written by Elizabeth Delmage Encoding funded by a 2008 Archives-Basic Projects grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Georgia Historical Society.
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 Encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, September 2009 Description is in English Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard MS 1932 William G. Caruthers Confederate States passport 1863 1 folder (.05 cubic feet) Caruthers, William Griffith, fl. 1863. Collection materials are in English. Georgia Historical Society
, Savannah, Georgia.
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 Subject headings

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Caruthers, William Griffith, fl. 1863. Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Confederate States of America. fPassports. Biographical information

William Griffith Caruthers resided in Walton County, Georgia.

 Scope and content note

This collection contains a passport issued to William Griffith Caruthers of Walton County, Georgia on 4 May 1863. During the Civil War, domestic passports were issued to citizens in the Confederate States in order to travel to other states in their union. This passport was issued to Caruthers, who was under the age of eighteen, to travel to Richmond and Fredericksburg, Virginia.