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General Marion Williamson papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS851
Scope and Content
This collection contains papers and books belongong to General Marion Williamson. Included are three Georgia National Guard Annuals; a 1939 national Guard Register; an army Staff Officer's Field Manual; a Georgia statistical register; and a U.S. Army Register of Retired Personnel. Awards and certificates received during his college years, military career, and his career in the Georgia Department of Labor. Also included is a P.O.W. tag from 1942 from a German prisoner. A tape of an oral...
Dates:
1924-1989
James Lile Lemon papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1275
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the military career of Captain James Lile Lemon. It includes the first and third volume of a three-set diary that details his military engagements and experiences. Of particular note Vol. 1 includes a rose pressed into the cover. In addition, there are copies of Lemon’s memoir in which he detailed his recollections of the war. The collection also contains transcripts of all three diaries and parts one and two of the memoir, wartime maps, newspapers, letters from...
Dates:
1850-2005, undated
Letter from James Ormond to Henry Ward Beecher
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS261f
Scope and Content
This typed transcription of a letter from James Ormond of Atlanta, Georgia to Reverend Henry Ward Beecher is dated January 24, 1876 and is entitled "The Secret of Andersonville". The letter is a rebuttal to an article Beecher wrote in the Christian Union regarding the conditions at Andersonville prison in Georgia.
Dates:
1876
Linda Bailey World War I photographs and postcards
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS269
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs and postcards collected by Linda Bailey during her tenure at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Photographs include a birds' eye view of shops at Camp Jesup at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia, and other scenes of Camp Jesup German prisoners of war camp during World War I (WWI). Postcards include street views of the barracks in prison camp; prisoners lined up for daily count; prisoners cleaning camp grounds; and prisoners building camp and toys at Fort...
Dates:
approximately 1918, undated
William Albert Crouse papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS609f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a transcription of a diary kept by William Albert Crouse from May to August of 1864. It also contains a letter dated January 22, 1865, from Augustus H. McFarland to William’s wife Margaret Crouse. The diary contains daily records of the weather, personal health, meals and general conditions inside Andersonville Prison. According to Crouse the prisoners’ rations generally consisted of cornbread or corn flakes most days, but were occasionally supplemented by bacon or...
Dates:
1864
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