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Emma Jacqueline Slade Prescott booklets
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS277f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of two booklets entitled "Stories of the War" and "Reminiscences of the War." In these documents Prescott wrote about "yankees" torturing a man in order to discover where his money was hidden; and how her husband was called to war in 1862 and later how he faced down thirty armed deserters who planned to kill him. She also writes about how she hid valuables from "yankee" raids; an occasion when the "yankees" broke into her home and threatened her at gunpoint; the...
Dates:
1922-1924
Emma Lou Cole papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS86
Scope and Content
Material related to the Eberhart family, including a scrapbook of late 19th Century advertisements, cards and magazine clippings, and one of newspaper clippings (which includes a history of Grady Hospital); and numerous items relating to apartment rental in Atlanta.Material related to the Eberhart family, including a scrapbook of late 19th Century advertisements, cards and magazine clippings, and one of newspaper clippings (which includes a history of Grady Hospital); and numerous items...
Dates:
1856-1970, undated
Fed R. Thomas bridge construction scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1260
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a scrapbook that documents Fed R. Thomas’ engineering career with the City of Atlanta. The scrapbook includes bridge construction proposals, architectural specifications, and blueprints of bridges. Proposals include Peachtree Creek Bridge and Forsyth Street Bridge and detail bridge length, materials, and weight capacity alongside correlating city regulations. Of particular note is a copy of Atlanta Mayor James Calhoun's (1811-1875) recollection of the city’s...
Dates:
1885-1980
Finley Family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS853
Scope and Content
This collection is divided into two series. Series I is primarily correspondance, both business and personal, spanning from the 1770s into the 1880s. Included are indentures, land grants, surveys, store accounts, a scrapbook and a funeral notice. Series II is from the twentieth century and is the collected mementos of Robert S, Lowrence from Atlanta, Georgia. Included are scrapbooks, photograph albums, diplomas, certificates, correspondence, church bulletins, music programs,...
Dates:
1778-1992
Francis Asbury Shoup Civil War letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS308f
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a letter from Shoup to Lieutenant Colonel McMicken, the chief quartermaster of the Army of Tennessee. Shoup suggests that supplies should be moved by "the West Point Road below East Point" if the enemy fails to extend the right flank.
Dates:
1864 August 26
Francis DeGress Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS998
Scope and Content
The collection primarily contains materials pertaining to the activities of Captain Francis DeGress during and after the Civil War. Some of the documents include personal accounts of battle activities by Captain DeGress, field reports, military certificates, correspondence, official records of DeGress' Battery, and ledgers documenting clothing accounts for soldiers under his command. Of special interest is a letter from Theodore Davis to Mrs. Francis DeGress describing Captain DeGress'...
Dates:
1862-1917, undated
Francis DeGress Photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS195
Scope and Content
The collection contains five photographs of Francis DeGress. Most are portrait shots with the exception of one which is a group shot of eight gentlemen in uniform.
Dates:
1864, undated
Francis Lawton Mobley Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1008
Scope and Content
The bulk of the collection is a series of letters from Lt. Francis Lawton Mobley to his wife, Rhoda Gaskins Mobley during his time of service in the Civil War. Lt. Mobley illustrates daily camp life for his wife and reports on his general health and well-being. In most letters he reports his current location and the various ailments afflicting the men in his regiment. The most common ailments mentioned were "Brain" fever, chills, measles, mumps, and diarrhea as well as battle field...
Dates:
1861-1916, undated; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1862
General Joseph E. Johnston letter to General Thomas C. Hindman
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS449f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a letter from General Joseph E. Johnston to General Thomas C. Hindman. Johnston asks for a brief account of the fighting at "the gap" and "Crow Valley" and about significant attacks by General William T. Sherman in order to write a book about the military operations of the Civil War.
Dates:
1867 October 21
General William Tecumseh Sherman field orders collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1027
Scope and Content
This collection contains fifty-two special field orders (SFOs) handwritten by General Sherman from the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. The bulk of these orders pertain to troop movements of the Military Division of the Mississippi (Union) as it moved through northern Georgia en route to Atlanta. Also contained herein are special instructions for railroad destruction (Sherman's "neckties"), proper placement of military hospitals, treatment of "stragglers and skulkers," the...
Dates:
1864
George Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS453
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 22 prints of Barnard’s photographs as he traveled with General Sherman's United States Army. Battlegrounds featured in the collection include Kennesaw, Atlanta, Resaca, Allatoona, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The prints were included in a larger collection published in Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign.
Dates:
1864
George Hewitt Daniel civil war correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS85f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains five letters written by George Hewitt Daniel to his daughters, Emmaret and Virginia. These letters were written between January 24, 1862 and July 3, 1864 both before and during Daniel’s service in the 8th Georgia Infantry (St. Guards) Company I. Adj. The first letter in the collection was written prior to Daniel’s enlistment and includes details on his visit to the battlefield during the battle of Chickasaw Bayou2. With this letter he also includes a copy of the...
Dates:
1862-1864
George J. Johnston papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS187f
Scope and Content
The bulk of this collection includes diaries and military records of George J. Johnston. Johnston's diaries span three volumes and date from December 14, 1863, to May 20, 1865. The first volume includes a brief summary of his early life; instructions to the person who finds his diary; several poems; lists and doodles; and a drawing and description of the battle at Bean Station. The narrative of the diary begins after he was wounded in the foot at Bean Station, and it describes his travels...
Dates:
1856-1865
George W. Bryson correspondence and Confederate currency
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS631f
Scope and Content
This collection contains six pieces of Confederate currency (defense bonds) issued by the state of Missouri to George W. Bryson and family correspondence regarding these pieces.
Dates:
1862, 1940
George Young papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS612f
Scope and Content
This collection contains information relating to the military service of George Young during the Civil War. Included are the pension applications he filed for himself and those filed on behalf of his widow, Sarah. Also included is a letter (October 31, 1862) from Young to his parents written during the war from Virginia. The letter describes the weather, an incident where "a man named Allan" accidentally shot off his fingers hunting crows, and the drafting of an "Uncle...
Dates:
1862-1980
Georgia Civil War and antebellum documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS637f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a list of names of the Delhi Rangers, Company A of the 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry raised in Wilkes County; an 1863 note from the Bank of Chattanooga; a document containing orders for the 13th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry in camp near Bull Run, Virginia; and a promissory note signed by John Wilkinson.
Dates:
1832-1863
G.L. White letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS539f
Scope and Content
This collection contains one letter and its transcription. The letter was written in Mobile, Alabama to G.L. White’s unnamed cousin. The letter details the rumors White heard about General Sherman’s movement through Georgia. He also states that a Union train has passed through Mobile with Confederate prisoners to participate in a prisoner exchange. Throughout the letter White makes inquiries about family news and other cousins.
Dates:
1865 March 10
Gone With the Wind collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS724
Scope and Content
This collection contains ephemera and memorabilia pertaining to the novel Gone With the Wind and it's film adaptation. Documents primarily include articles, newspapers and clippings, scrapbooks, and paper dolls. These materials documents the life of Margaret Mitchell Marsh, the publication of the book, the Atlanta premier of the movie, and the legacies of all three. Also included is a partial run of the German serialization of the novel that ran in...
Dates:
1921-2002, undated
Harrison E. Randall letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS669f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter written in Decatur, Georgia, on October 3, 1864, by Randall to his father. He speculates that there will be no fall campaign by General William T. Sherman and describes the arrival of Union prisoners released from Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, Georgia. Randall conveys the news of the death of his friend David S. Booream from wounds, and discusses his pay and promises to send some home.
Dates:
1864 October 3
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 118
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 24
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- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 13
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 13
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments 3
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- Women -- History -- 19th century 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
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- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 2
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 2
- Athens (Ga.) -- History 2
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- Automobiles -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Battlefield monuments -- Georgia -- Chickamauga 2
- Bridges -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 2
- Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 2
- Charleston (S.C.) 2
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- Churches -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
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- Daguerreotypes 2
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- Names
- 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
- 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
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 2
- Daniel, George Hewitt 2
- Davidson family 2
- DeGress, Francis, 1840-1883 2
- DuBose Family 2
- DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
- 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
- United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) 2
- United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865) 2
- United States. Navy. 2
- Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Aircraft Warning Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- 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
- Andervount, Jacob 1
- Andrews, Charles H. (Charles Haynes), 1835-1905 1
- Andrews, Lewis H. 1
- Anthony, Mark 1
- Ard, Joseph U. 1
- Armestead, Walter S. 1
- Armstrong, Adolphus 1
- Ashley, John T. 1 + ∧ less
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