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James Lile Lemon papers
Collection
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
Reverend John Wesley Stipe Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS685f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of genealogical information about John Wesley Stipe as well as typewritten and handwritten memoirs of his childhood, the days of his first marriage, Civil War service, and career as a Methodist Episcopal circuit pastor. His typewritten memoirs describe life in rural antebellum Georgia including such activities as justice courts, log rolling, and corn shucking. Of particular interest are two handwritten journal entries, written in the style of a newspaper series,...
Dates:
1864-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1961
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- Acworth (Ga.) -- History 1
- Banks and banking -- Georgia -- Acworth 1
- Cedar Mountain, Battle of, Va., 1862 1
- Confederate States of America -- History, Military 1
- Education, Rural -- Georgia 1
- Fort Sanders (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Prisoners of war 1
- Religion 1
- Slavery -- Georgia 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864 1 + ∧ less
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- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 18th 1
- Lemon, James Lile, 1835-1907 1
- Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Georgia Conference 1
- Smith Lemon Banking Company (Acworth, Ga.) 1
- Stipe, John Wesley, Reverend 1
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