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James Farson Civil War narrative and slave bill of sale

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Collection number: ahc.MSS725f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a three-part narrative of Farson’s service in the United States Army during the Civil War as well as a slave bill of sale. Part One of Farson’s narrative includes his account of the creation of his company, his service in Louisiana and Mississippi, his promotion and transfer to the Army of Virginia, and a record of his military service up to the Battle of Chancellorsville. Part Two picks up Farson’s narrative at Chancellorsville and provides an account of his...
Dates: 1851, 1904, undated

James G. Bogle research papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1172
Scope and Content

This collection contains research materials from James G. Bogle's study of George Hewett Daniel (1817-1964), a Confederate soldier. Materials include correspondence from literary agents as well newspaper clippings of Atlanta funerals. Also included is correspondence from Daniel to his daughters and information on his family's genealogy. Of particular note are manuscript drafts of parts II and III of Bogle's book titled George Hewitt Daniel (1817-1864).

Dates: 1837-2002, undated

James L. Bell papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS848f
Scope and Content This collection documents the life of James L. Bell and Bell family genealogy. Included are letters to Bell from William J. Hilburn, a fellow soldier; Captain Charles K. Maddox, under whom both Bell and Hilburn served during their military service; Walter A. Wiley; and A. T. Spalding, a pastor at Second Baptist Church in Atlanta. There is also research on the Bell family, gathered by James L. Bell’s great-granddaughter Edith H. Cook, that traces the family back to the 18th century. Cook also...
Dates: 1876-1983, undated

James L. Bryant Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS652f
Scope and Content This collection contains one letter dated June 8, 1864. It was written from James L. Bryant to his parents from his position outside Marietta, Georgia. He writes that the Federal Army does not yet have control of Marietta, but they expect to take the city before they continue marching towards Atlanta, Georgia. He describes talking with Confederate soldiers at the picket lines and explains their strange way of speaking by quoting their conversations briefly. He writes that the land in Georgia...
Dates: 1864 June 8

James L. Mitchell papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS840
Scope and Content

The James L. Mitchell collection contains .25 cubic feet of papers in thirteen folders. The greater part of the collection consists of reproductions of articles, memoirs, letters, newsclippings and maps. Some original correspondence of James L. Mitchell is included, but the bulk of the pre-1950 material is photocopied.

Dates: 1861-1985, undated; Majority of material found within 1889 - 1900

James Neuman and Tripp family Civil War correspondence

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Collection number: ahc.MSS679f
Scope and Content The collection consists of letter correspondence among friends, James Neuman and Hiram and Elizabeth A. Tripp. The letters indicate that Hiram Tripp was holding money for Neuman for safekeeping and would purchase tobacco and other supplies regularly to send to Neuman. The letters from Neuman describe the daily life of soldiers, his involvement in the battles leading up to the fall of Atlanta, and his desires and quests for finding tobacco. One letter, dated 21 August 1864, explains how he...
Dates: 1863-1864

James P. Wickersham letter and biographical sketch

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Collection number: ahc.MSS373f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from James P. Wickersham on July 17, 1881 to his wife Emerine written during a train ride to Atlanta from Pennsylvania. He wrote that the trip took 34 hours, including a 5 or 6 hour delay because of engine failure. He speaks of Atlanta as "beautiful and thrifty" compared to the city as he saw it in 1866 as it lay in ruins.

Dates: 1881, undated

James R. Crew papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS79f
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, military documents, and other personal records of James R. Crew. Correspondence includes letters Crew wrote to his wife about life in Atlanta during and after the Civil War. Crew did not date the letters but he describes contemporary war events such as battles in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Florida, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He talks about the hanging of "bridge burners," referring to a group of Union spies known as Andrews Raiders. Crew...
Dates: approximately 1860-1932, undated

James W. Cole papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS693f
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, military records, and pension records for James W. Cole and John B. Cole. The bulk of the papers relate to bounties and pensions paid to heirs of James W. Cole, as well as details of James' military service during the Civil War. There are two letters from John B. Cole and Aaron Shaw written to James during their service. There is also a letter and blank form from the law offices of Harvey Spalding and Sons soliciting cases for claims of pensions or...
Dates: 1862-1941, undated

James W. Courtney Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS560f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a letter written by James W. Courtney to his sister from a "Camp near Atlanta Georgia." Courtney discusses the lack of correspondence between the two of them and hopes that missing letters will eventually arrive. He writes that he hopes he will soon be finished with this "unholey war" and expects to capture Atlanta, Georgia, and return home within three months or so. Courtney claims that the Confederates lost 10,000 soldiers in a single charge against Union...
Dates: 1864 August 5

Jane Louisa Killian papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS447f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of Jane Louisa Killian's 1865 diary. Of particular interest are entries that include her thoughts on the death of President Lincoln; the surrender of General Robert E. Lee; the day Confederate money was no longer legal tender; the return of captured Confederate prisoners to Atlanta, Georgia; and her reaction to her husband's murder.

Dates: 1865-1931, undated

Jesse R. Griffin papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS858
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a scrapbook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and related documents. The scrapbook was kept by Jesse R. Griffin's wife about him and his topics of interest, which included the Civil War, veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy, President McKinley, religion, and Carrollton, Georgia.

Dates: 1880-1946, undated

John A. Caho papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS605f
Scope and Content This collection contains a diary kept by John A. Caho from October 16, 1863 to March 2, 1864. It also contains photocopies of his parents’ marriage certificate, pension applications filed by Ann Jones Caho, medical examination records for both Charles H. Caho and John A. Caho, affidavits from neighbors and medical professionals verifying the conditions of Charles and John Caho’s illnesses, and company muster rolls for John A. Caho. The diary was written while John Caho was in Louisiana and...
Dates: 1861-1875

John Ashley Jones papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS125
Scope and Content

Ephemeral items related to the Sons of Confederate Veterans (of which Jones was the national commander), the New York Life Insurance Company, and Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta (where he served as a ruling elder). Of special interest are scripts and historical addresses from Atlanta’s Centennial Celebration in 1948 and an inscribed copy of Ivan Allen’s The Spirit of Atlanta (1948).

Dates: 1912-1948

John Craig Evans civil war letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS105f
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains transcripts of letters written by John Craig Evans to his wife, Annie, from December 1864- June 1865. Most of the letters were written in Petersburg, Virginia and consist of questions about his children, family, and home life. Evans letters also note an increasing amount of desertions as troop conditions become harsher, and mention his involvement in the Battle of Hatchers Run and the Battle of Fort Stedman. On April 1, 1865 John Craig Evans was captured at the...
Dates: 1864-1865

John Dunlap civil war letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS97f
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains a typed copy of a letter written by John Dunlap to his father William Dunlap during the Atlanta Campaign in the Civil War on July 30, 1864. His letter states that he expects that the Union will overtake the Confederacy in the next battle. The next letter was written on June 13, 1969 by Jack C. Delius and thanks John Dunlap’s great- grandson, Garland S. Wells, Jr., for donating the original letter to the Cyclorama in Atlanta, Georgia. Also included in the collection,...
Dates: 1864

John Henry Durbin papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS948f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains copies and transcriptions of newspaper articles about Durbin and his brother-in-law, Benjamin Bainum, as well as a roster of their 83rd Indiana Infantry Regiment. Also included are copies and a transcription of a letter written by Durbin to his father about the Atlanta Campaign, which he wrote on the back of a blank prisoner of war ledger.

Dates: 1864-1920, undated

John K. Murdoch letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS671f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a letter to John K. Murdoch from his parents and sister in Ithaca, New York. The letter discusses the health and activities of family and friends; civic affairs, including an election in which a candidate purchased votes for two dollars; and the return of the bodies of dead soldiers. Murdoch’s sister, Mary, tells a story about the husband of an acquaintance stealing jewelry from a dead Confederate soldier in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Dates: 1864 March 6

John Keely Civil War letter and scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS196f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from Captain John Keely to John Ryan of Atlanta about the health of Captain Keely and news of friends. The collection also contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles about Keely and a diary he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865, 1881-1931, undated

John Matthew McCrary papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS152
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence between John McCrary and his wife, Mary Boyd; his brother, Robert, and mother, Nancy, during John McCrary's service in the Georgia Volunteers during the Civil War. Additional records include a contract between John McCrary and his former slaves; his furlough order; and a list of Mr. McCrary's taxable property.

Dates: 1862-1865, undated

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
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Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
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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
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Calhoun, James Montgomery 2
Carnegie, Andrew 2
Cobb family 2
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Daniel, George Hewitt 2
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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
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Selznick, David O. 2
Smith family 2
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization) 2
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Stanley, Henry S. 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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Ard, Joseph U. 1
Armestead, Walter S. 1
Armstrong, Adolphus 1
Ashley, John T. 1
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