Bennett Family Collection
About the Collection
Collection preserves selected wartime correspondence from the Bennett Family Collection, including letters between Private James Bennett and his mother, Lorsia Bennett and others. The Bennett Family collection also includes wartime ephemera, Bennett family financial records, and minutes from the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Association, spanning 1890 to 1974.For more information, see the Bennett Family Collection Finding Aid.
Transcriptions are being prepared by students in HIST 3030 – Women & War, under the guidance of Drs. A. Belzer and F. Turner. Transcriptions are expected to be available in 2026.
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![Letter 08 - To James Bennett from [Multiple] 20 July 1918 by Multiple Authors](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1028/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 08 - To James Bennett from [Multiple] 20 July 1918 by Multiple Authors")
![Letter 11 - To James Bennett from [Zozie] Sapp, 23 September 1918 by Sapp Zozie](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1012/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 11 - To James Bennett from [Zozie] Sapp, 23 September 1918 by Sapp Zozie")
![Letter 19 - Letter to Ja[mes] Bennett from C. H. McNair, 27 January 1919 by C. H. McNair](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1020/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 19 - Letter to Ja[mes] Bennett from C. H. McNair, 27 January 1919 by C. H. McNair")
![Letter 21 - To James Bennett from Lorsia Bennett, 23 April 191[9] by Bennett Lorsia](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1022/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 21 - To James Bennett from Lorsia Bennett, 23 April 191[9] by Bennett Lorsia")
![Letter 23 - To James Bennett from Lorsia Bennett, 1[0] May 1919 by Bennett Lorsia](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1024/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 23 - To James Bennett from Lorsia Bennett, 1[0] May 1919 by Bennett Lorsia")
![Letter 25 - To Lorsia Bennett from James Bennett [?] by James Bennett](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bennettfamily/1025/thumbnail.jpg "Letter 25 - To Lorsia Bennett from James Bennett [?] by James Bennett")
