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Emily Jane Winkler Bealer diary

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS814f
Scope and Content

This collection contains Emily Jane Winkler Bealer's diary in which she reflects on domestic life as an impoverished widow during Reconstruction in Atlanta. Topics include raising and educating her children, financial and business affairs, and social and church life. The collection also includes a typed transcript and biographical notes written by Bealer's great-granddaughter, Emily Bealer Calhoun II. These notes contain research on people and businesses referenced in the diary.

Dates: 1876-1886, approximately 1975

Helen Dortch Longstreet papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS136
Scope and Contents The Helen Dortch Longstreet papers include biographical materials, correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, newsclippings, and subject files, primarily documenting Longstreet's attempts to exonerate her husband from blame for the Confederacy's loss at the Battle of Gettysburg. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, including Sears Wilson Cabell, who served as treasurer of the Longstreet Memorial Association; her stepdaughter Lula Whelchel; Jessie P. Rothrock, North Carolina state chair...
Dates: 1904-1963

Henri (Henrietta Irene) Horrell poems

 Collection
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