Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865) Southern cultivator.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.11 Author/Creator: Redmond, Dennis (fl. 1856-1865) Place Written: Augusta, Georgia Type: Newspaper Date: 1861, 1862, 1864 Pagination: 9 issues : 4 p. ; 26.5 x 17 cm. Order a Copy
The Southern Cultivator was published monthly (sometimes combined) with 32 pages at the first of this run, which reduced to 24 pages and then 16 by the end of the run. Each issue contains letters to the editor with detailed responses. Regular columns include Hints for the Month, Rural Hygiene, Rural Architecture, Horticulture, etc. Advertisements for seeds are printed here, as are lists of new publications and market reports. A few recipes and poems are often included, with occasional serialized articles and travelogues.
Vol. 9 nos. 2, 7; Vol. 20 nos. 1, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10; Vol. 22 nos. 1, 3, 6
(1861/2, 1861/7, 1862/1, 1862/5&6, 1862/7&8, 1862/9&10, 1864/1, 1864/3, 1864/6)
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During the Civil War the railroad through Augusta connected the eastern and western Confederates. In spite of a 50% literacy rate in the South, Georgia's agricultural press was renowned and quite progressive. By 1860 there were five agricultural journals published in Georgia; the Southern Cultivator, a monthly journal established in 1843 in Augusta, was one of the most respected in the nation. The Cultivator promoted the formation of active agricultural societies and urged mixed husbandry. The journal also printed examples of the growth of many bureaucratic ideas.
James Camak developed the Southern Cultivator. Dennis Redmond, an indigo farmer, and Rev. C.W. Howard, edited the Cultivator during 1861. By 1862, Redmond was the editor and publisher, with an editorial department consisting of Howard, Dr. M.W. Philips, William N. White, and Robert Nelson. In 1864, the editors are listed as Redmond and White. Later William Louis Jones (1827-1914) purchased the paper with his father in 1866 and acted as editor. A professor of science and agriculture at the University of Georgia, he also edited Henry W. Grady's Southern Farm and was the first director of the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station. He sold the paper in 1881, although he continued to write a monthly column until 1884.
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