Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer: Judge Garnett Andrews

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Notes Editor’s Introduction 1. Garnett Andrews, Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer (Atlanta: J. J. Toon, Franklin Steam Printing House, 1870). 2. Garnett Andrews, Anecdotes of the Georgia Bench and Bar, by One of Them (Atlanta: J. J. Toon, Publisher, Book, News and Job Printer, 1871). 3. Only one copy of the 1871 edition of the judge’s memoirs is known to have survived into the twenty-first century. That copy is in the Andrews family papers in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library Special Collections. 4. Elbert and Hart counties are part of Georgia’s northern judicial circuit. Judge Andrews served the circuit for many years. 5. Eliza Frances Andrews, Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870–1872 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 85–86. 6. Ibid., 86. 7. For example, Judge Thomas is cited as the presiding judge in an 1862 conscription case in Allen D. Candler and Clement A. Evans, Georgia (Atlanta: State Historical Association, 1906), 444. Thomas’s dates of commission to the Northern Circuit, August and November 1855, are listed in Stephen Miller, Bench and Bar of Georgia: Memoirs and Sketches, 1790–1857 (New York: Lippincott, 1858), 374. 8. For a modern analysis of slavery and capitalism, see George R. Woolfolk, “Planter Capitalism and Slavery: The Labor Thesis,” Journal of Negro History 41, no. 2 (April 1956): 103–16, also available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2715573. 9. The popular vote in Georgia favored remaining in the Union. David Williams argues in Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War (New York: New Press, 2008), that Georgia’s convention called to decide the secession question was influenced by the state’s large planters to favor the secession over popular wishes. Georgia was not alone in being led unwillingly to secession. Williams quotes a South Carolina planter-legislator as asking, “whoever waited for the common people when a great move was to be made?” (10). 10. Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, ed. Spencer Bidwell King (Macon, Ga.: Ardivan Press, 1960), 176–77. Notes to Pages xiv–xx [158] 11. Ethel Kime Ware, A Constitutional History of Georgia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1947), 92–93. See also an online history of the Georgia Supreme Court at Supreme Court of Georgia, “Supreme Court Brochure,” http://www. gasupreme.us/scbroch.php (accessed July 31, 2008). 12. Ware, Constitutional History of Georgia, 98. 13. R. M. Charlton, Introduction to Reports of Decisions Made in the Superior Court of the Eastern District of Georgia, 1811–37, as cited in Ware, Constitutional History of Georgia, 93. 14. Supreme Court of Georgia, “Supreme Court Brochure.” 15. Georgia Bar Association Reports (1887), 94, as quoted in Ware. 16. Ware, Constitutional History of Georgia, 94–95. 17. Rufus Bullock (1834–1907) was Georgia’s first Republican governor. He served from 1868 until 1871. His term of office was heavily opposed by the nascent Ku Klux Klan. 18. E. F. Andrews, Journal of a Georgia Woman, 57. 19. See Genesis 9:20–27. 20. New Georgia Encyclopedia, s.v. “Joseph Henry Lumpkin,” http://www.georgia encyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-636 (accessed December 9, 2008). 21. E. F. Andrews, War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 16–17. 22. Rosalie Andrews McConnell, telephone conversation with author, summer 2001. 23. Zella Armstrong, The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee, vol. 1 (Chattanooga, Tenn.: Lookout Publishing, 1931), 129. 24. For a description of Georgia politics during this period, see R. P. Brooks, “Howell Cobb and the Crisis of 1850,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 4, no. 3 (December 1917): 279–98, also available online at http://www.jstor.org/ stable/1888593. Cobb eventually changed positions and after the Charleston convention of 1860 supported secession. Judge Andrews remained a unionist. 25. See Appendix, 1850 letter. 26. The full text of the letters and speech are provided in the Appendix. 27. For a description of the Georgia Secession Convention of 1861, see New Georgia Encyclopedia, s.v. “Georgia Secession Convention of 1861,” http://www.georgia encyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3250 (accessed May 15, 2008). See also Albert B. Saye, Constitutional History of Georgia, 1732–1968, rev. ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1970). 28. “Our Portrait Gallery: Judge Garnett Andrews of Georgia,” The Sunny South, August 3, 1878. A copy of this article rests in the Garnett Andrews Collection, Southern Historical Collection of the Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...