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C. W. Motes photographs and drawing

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS436
Scope and Contents This collection contains several photographs taken by Columbus Washington "C. W." Motes, as well as portraits of Motes. Additional photographs include his wife, Emma F. White, and their two daughters: Mary Motes Delbridge and Eva Motes. The collection also includes photographs, presumably of his clients, images of titled sculptures, a drawing by C. W. Motes, and a color cased image of his daughter, Mary. Of special note is an ambrotype of Motes during his time as a Confederate soldier in the...
Dates: approximately 1862-1900, undated

Colonel Thomas Spencer photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS459
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken by Colonel Thomas Spencer of buildings and sites related to the American Civil War, largely the Battle of Chickamauga and battlesites in the Atlanta Campaign. Most of the photographs were taken in Georgia, with some in Tennessee and Alabama. Many buildings depicted served as headquarters and hospitals of one or both armies during the Civil War. This collection also contains photographs of historical markers, maps, and confederate flags. In addition...
Dates: 1950-1954, undated

Henri (Henrietta Irene) Horrell poems

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Collection number: ahc.MSS952f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two poems written by Henri Horrell about the Civil War. There is a typed and a hand written copy of "Grand-Pa's Story," which is about the Battle of Chancellorsville. In addition, there is a typed copy of "Who'll Know the Blue from the Gray," as well as a copy of the periodical Blue and Gray: the Patriotic American magazine from February 1884, in which Horrell published her poem.

Dates: 1867-1894, undated

James Lile Lemon papers

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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

Lochrane and Reid family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1203
Scope and Contents This collection documents the Reid and Lochrane families, as well as the associated families Grant and Rudolph. The bulk of papers is correspondence, primarily from Sallie Fannie Reid. Other items include legal material from Osborne Augustus Lochrane such as speeches, legal decisions, telegraphs, and a funeral announcement; a valedictory speech, calling cards, calendars, receipts, and poetry from the Lochrane family; and receipts and Confederate Army military passes from the Reid family. In...
Dates: 1833-1977, undated; Majority of material found within 1856-1872

Oliver Hazard Perry Juhan papers

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Collection number: ahc.mss947f
Scope and Contents This collection documents Oliver Hazard Perry Juhan's war service and family history. Included are letters that Juhan wrote to his family while fighting in the Confederate Army as well as his law license issued in 1839. The collection also contains genealogy and historical information about the Payzant and Juhan families. Of particular note is correspondence that documents Juhan's strategizing with General Robert E. Lee regarding the Battle of Antietam and the Battle at the Rapidan River in...
Dates: 1859-1904

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