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Robert S. Paden photographs and drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS439
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of five generations of the Smith-Steele-Medlock-Davenport family gathered for Elizabeth Hawkins Smith's 93rd birthday. Also included is a watercolor drawing of Jasper Smith (1836), Martha Ellen Smith Paden's brother, who died during the American Civil War. Of special note are photographs of “Auntie Gracie” and Wilkes Smith, two formerly enslaved people who worked for the Smith family. Robert S. Paden took the photograph of Wilkes Smith.

Dates: approximately 1895-1925, undated

Robert Wigham Letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS131f
Scope and Content This collection contains two copies and two transcripts of a letter written by Robert Wigham from Haltwhistle, Northumberland, England to his cousin Isaac Hall in New York. In his letter, Wigham tells Hall that he is sorry to hear of his wife’s recent death. Wigham then goes on to explain various aspects of England’s viewpoint of the American Civil War. These viewpoints include: that the North is fighting to preserve the union as opposed to fighting for the end of slavery, the South should...
Dates: 1861

Roderick Gaspero Shaw collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS305f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of letters from Roderick Gaspero Shaw, a soldier in Company A, 4th Florida Infantry, CSA, to his sister and uncle. Also included is a letter to relatives about his death in Marietta, Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign.

Dates: 1864

Roderick Perry papers

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Collection number: ahc.mss806
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters written by Roderick Perry and his family and friends of Warsaw, Kentucky. Also included are letters to soldiers requesting help from Kate Perry, Perry's adjutant handbook, and business cards of merchants supplying goods to prisioners of war.

Dates: 1841 - 1926

Rosalie Howell papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS119
Scope and Content The bulk of the materials in the Rosalie Howell papers document Howell's career as a Red Cross nurse during World War I and her subsequent world travel. Items include a scrapbook; correspondence with former patients; official Red Cross documents; clippings concerning her receipt of the Croix de Guerre from the French government; and travel books, postcards, and ephemera (primarily from the United Kingdom). The collection has material about, or created by, other members of the Howell family;...
Dates: 1880-1970, undated

Russell Bellman Gone With the Wind Premiere Film

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Collection number: ahc.VIS189
Scope and Content The collection, in its original format, is a single reel of spliced 16mm black and white, and color film shot by Russell Bellman during the festivities and premiere of Gone With the Wind. The beginning of the footage captures the Atlanta Junior League Ball at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium and was shot in black and white and color. Bellman shot the black and white portion from an elevated position panning the auditorium grandstands and floor area. The...
Dates: 1939

Sally Garrison's account of the Atlanta Campaign

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Collection number: ahc.MSS173f
Scope and Content This collection contains a photocopy of Sally Garrison's handwritten account of her recollections of her experiences during the Atlanta Campaign. Her account spans from 1863 to 1864 and includes details of the following; conditions in Atlanta right before the raid, the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the shelling of the city, the surrender of Atlanta, and her experience as an exile fleeing to Macon, then to Dawson, Georgia until the end of the war. It was written at the request of the Thurza...
Dates: 1863-1864

Samuel Bachtell Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS16f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a letter written by Samuel Bachtell to his wife in which he describes military maneuvers which led to the capture of Atlanta, Georgia. He also describes the destruction of military property by the fleeing Confederate forces and the joy the army felt about capturing Atlanta.

Dates: 1864 September 3

Samuel G. French and John Corse Civil War correspondence

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Collection number: ahc.MSS26f
Scope and Content

This collection contains two letters dated October 5, 1864 that pertain to the Battle of Allatoona Pass. One letter is from Major General S. G. French of the Confederate States of America demanding the commanding Union officer to surrender his troops. The other letter is a reply to Major General S.G. French from Brigadier General John W. Corse in which he refuses to surrender.

Dates: October 1864

Samuel L. Roe family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS715f
Scope and Content This collection consists primarily of letters written by Samuel L. Roe and C.W.G. Roe while the brothers were serving in Company H, 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the United States Civil War. The letters describe troop movements; weather conditions; rations; the lack of adequate shoes, clothing, and pay; and other details regarding living and battle conditions during the war. Of particular interest are comments in the letters about taking "Yankee" prisoners, religious...
Dates: 1841-1875, undated

Samuel Spencer Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS333f
Scope and Content

This collection contains carbon transcriptions of fifty seven letters by Samuel Spencer to his father, Lambert Spencer, while he served in the Confederate Army in 1864-1865. He saw service in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Dates: 1864-1865

Sarah Martha Cobb Whitner scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS326
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of two scrapbooks that contain newspaper clippings pertaining to Cobb and Whitner families as well as Atlanta events.

Dates: 1857-1900, undated

Sidney Root papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS908f
Scope and Content

This collection contains autobiographic and biographic materials on Sidney Root as well as transcriptions of letters and newspaper articles written by Root. Materials include the manuscripts for Root's unpublished autobiography, Memorandum of My Life and genealogy papers on the Root family. Of particular note is a manuscript of a biography of Root by Walter McElreath, one of the founders of the Atlanta Historical Society.

Dates: 1863-1897, undated

Simms family letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS11
Scope and Content This collection contains 1 telegram and 106 letters written between members of the Simms family. The collection also contains transcriptions of 52 of the letters. Most of the letters were written by Arthur Benjamin Simms to his sister Lucy Jane Simms, however there are also some letters written to his mother Jerusha Simms. Other letters were written by Lucy Jane Simms, James Phillip Simms, Jerusha Simms, and Richard Lee Simms, Jr. All but three of Arthur Benjamin’s letters were written from...
Dates: 1841, 1860-1878; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1878

Solomon Augustus Lenfest diaries and genealogy

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Collection number: ahc.MSS565f
Scope and Content

This collection consist of photocopies of the diaries of Solomon Augustus Lenfest written during the Nine Months Campiagn, 1862-1863, and the Hundred Days Campaign, 1864. Also included is the genealogy of the Lenfest family.

Dates: 1862-1864

Sons of Confederate Veterans collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS385
Scope and Content

This collection contains organizational records pertaining to the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Included in the collection are programs, correspondence, and invitations.

Dates: 1897-1962, undated

Stephen Jamison manumission documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS970f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains manumission records signed by slaveholder Julia Treadway that granted Stephen Jamison freedom. There is an application allowing him to serve in the 4th Regiment of the United States Colored Infantry during the American Civil War that includes an Evidence of Title proving Treadway’s enslavement of Jamison, Treadway’s Claimant’s Certificate and Oath of Allegiance to the United States. In addition, there is a Deed of Manumission and Release of Service for Jamison.

Dates: 1864 February-September

Sydney C. Kerksis papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS762
Scope and Content

This collection contains a number of Kersis' original manuscripts and the supporting research and correspondence as well as published copies of other articles.

Dates: 1946-1989

Tatum family documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS619f
Scope and Content

This collection contains five items relating to the Tatum Family of Georgia. There are letters and a military parole pertaining to Robert P. Tatum. There is also a letter from W. E. Patmon (W.E. Patman), brother-in-law of Robert P. Tatum, to his family in 1861. Also in the collection is a cover from a Fulton County Confederate Veterans' Association and a Coley-Tatum-Patmon genealogy.

Dates: 1861-1914

Thomas A. Lesueur parole

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Collection number: ahc.MSS209f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a parole of private Thomas A. Lesueur on October 8, 1862 in Alden, Virginia. Lesueur was the brother of Mrs. C. S. Gaulden. Lesueur died in 1862.

Dates: 1862

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 10
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 8
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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 5
Confederate States of America. Army 5
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 5
Georgia. Militia 5
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 5
United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia 4
Gable, Clark, 1901-1960 4
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 4
Junior League of Atlanta 4
Leigh, Vivien 4
Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum. 3
Atlanta Historical Society 3
Civil War Round Table, Atlanta 3
Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion 3
Confederate States of America. Navy 3
Daughters of the American Revolution 3
De Havilland, Olivia 3
DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 3
Fuller family 3
Fuller, William Allen 3
Grant, Lemuel Pratt 3
Hood, John Bell 3
Kurtz, Annie Laurie Fuller, 1884-1946 3
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 3
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 3
Atlanta (Ga.). Department of Parks and Recreation 2
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 2
Avary, Myrta Lockett 2
Bomar family 2
Bomar, Benjamin F. 2
Bomar, Thomas 2
Brown family 2
Calhoun, James Montgomery 2
Carnegie, Andrew 2
Cobb family 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 2
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Daniel, George Hewitt 2
Davidson family 2
DeGress, Francis, 1840-1883 2
DuBose Family 2
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DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
Dubose, Beverly Means 2
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 2
Grant family 2
Hall family 2
Hampton, Wade 2
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 2
Howell, Evan P. (Evan Park) 2
Jackson, Stonewall 2
Johnston, Albert Sidney 2
Jones family 2
Kerksis, Sydney C. 2
Killian family 2
Kurtz, Wilbur, 1912-1991 2
Ladies' Memorial Association 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Lombard, Carole 2
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 2
Marsh, John R. (John Robert) 2
Morgan, John Hunt 2
Pomeroy, Charles R., Jr. 2
Richards, Samuel P. 2
Selznick, David O. 2
Smith family 2
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization) 2
Spalding, Mary Connally, 1877-1953 2
Stanley, Henry S. 2
United States. Army 2
United States. Army of the Cumberland 2
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United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865) 2
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Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
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Akin, Warren, 1811-1877 1
Alexander, Cecil A., 1918-2013 1
Alexander, Rebecca Ella Solomons, 1854-1938 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Dwight S., 1843-1908 1
American Red Cross 1
Anderson, Zachery T. 1
Andersonville Prison 1
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Andrews, Charles H. (Charles Haynes), 1835-1905 1
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Ard, Joseph U. 1
Armestead, Walter S. 1
Armstrong, Adolphus 1
Ashley, John T. 1
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