| Summary: | John Horry Dent, Maximillian B. Wellborn's maternal grandfather, who came to Alabama in 1836, was a prosperous Barbour County planter. In 1866, he sold his plantation and bought a farm in Floyd County, Georgia, where he died in 1892. Charles Iverson Graves, Wellborn's father-in-law and a Georgia native, served as a midshipman aboard the U.S.S. Minnesota of the East India and China Squadron in 1853, spending several months in China. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1857. In 1861 he resigned his commission and entered the Confederate Navy. This collection contains correspondence of John Horry Dent.
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