Sam Thomas Jr. (left)
and Vince Dooley
Vince Dooley and Sam Thomas Jr. were presented with the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of an Archives during the 15th annual GHRAC Archives Awards ceremony at the Georgia Archives on Oct. 26, 2017. The GHRAC Awards recognize outstanding efforts in archives and records work in Georgia.
The Legion’s Fighting Bulldog: The Civil War Correspondence of William Gaston Delony, Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb’s Georgia Legion Cavalry, and Rosa Delony, 1853-1863, by Dooley and Thomas, relays the story of a young man, on the cusp of a promising law career in the 1850s, who comes to the conclusion that his way of life, and that of his neighbors, is about to change forever. Interwoven with those of his wife, Rosa Eugenia Huguenin, the Delony correspondence offers a window into the lives of independent individuals during the Civil War who also happened to be well-placed in society due to birth. Dooley discovered the Delonys’ Civil War letters in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA.
