Z 0462.000 Hopkins (George Washington) Papers

Papers of George Washington Hopkins, a private in Company F (Noxubee Rifles), Eleventh Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, CSA. Hopkins was born near Macon on March 15, 1845, and was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines, May 31–June 1, 1862.

Thirty-six of the letters were written to his mother, Mrs. Emeline E. R. Hopkins, Brooksville, from camps in or near Lynchburg, Harpers Ferry, Winchester, Manassas Junction, Prince William County, Dumfries, Fredericksburg, Yorktown, and Richmond, Virginia. Other items include a letter of June 17, 1862, from his captain, George T. Wier, to Mrs. Hopkins; report of the casualties of Company F in the Battle of Seven Pines; letter of July 7, 1862, from William C. Hearn, apparently a chaplain; a certificate of the Treasury Department, Confederate States of America, April 19, 1864, concerning Hopkins' pay; a printed (newspaper clipping) muster roll of the "Noxubee Guards," Forty-first Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, CSA; a copy of the April 16, 1862, issue of the Macon Beacon; and a manuscript poem to the "Noxubee Volunteers."