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Holbrook and Jefferson family Civil War letter and marriage certificate
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS160f
Scope and Content
This collection includes the marriage certificate of James H. Holbrook and Mary E. Jefferson and a letter from 1st Lieutenant Thomas E. Jefferson to his wife and children. He writes about his travels, the potential for fights with "the yankees," and asks them to pray for him.
Dates:
1862 April-May
Holliday Family Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS116
Scope and Content
This collection contains forty-two original letters written by A. T. Holliday to his wife, Elizabeth (Lizy). These letters were written between July 6, 1864 and September 10, 1864 during Mr. Holliday's service in the Georgia Militia in the Atlanta Campaign. Two additional letters in the collection were written by Elizabeth to A. T. Holliday during the same time period. The letters from A.T. include his reports of skirmishes along the Chattahoochee River and behind picket lines surrounding...
Dates:
1863-1864
Horatio McMullan letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS424f
Scope and Content
This collection contains copies of letters written by Horatio McMullan to his sister and to "Jack". The letters were written from Richmond, Virginia in July 22 and Aug. 2, 1861.
Dates:
1861
Hosea Garrett, Jr. civil war letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS119f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two transcribed letters. The first letter of the collection was written by Hosea Garrett, Jr. to his uncle, Reverend Hosea Garrett, on August 1, 1864. This letter provides a detailed account of the Atlanta Campaign, and the fighting that occurred on July 27, 1864. In his account, Garrett notes that not only were Confederate troops far outnumbered, but General Walker was also killed early in the battle, making the troops disorganized and ineffective. Due to their lack...
Dates:
1864
Huff Family Correspondence and Reciept
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS682f
Scope and Content
The collection contains twenty-three letters and one receipt written by and to the members of the Huff family and their friends. Included are letters written between 1853 and 1855 by Albert, Green, Jackson, Zipporah, and Monroe Willis. The young men wrote about traveling to Quitman, Texas to open a mercantile business. Their letters cover topics including the quality of the land, their trouble in finding spouses, the integrity of the locals, and the purchasing of goods for their business. ...
Dates:
1853-1869
Hugh Black Civil War letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS31f
Scope and Content
This collection contains photo copies of two letters written by Hugh Black, a soldier in the Confederate army, to his wife. He writes about how he feels it is impossible for the Confederates to hold the city and how Atlanta will fall to the enemy in a short time. The date of the photocopies is unknown.
Dates:
July 1864
Jacques Futrelle papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS919
Scope and Content
This collection consists of manuscript and published copies of stories, programs for plays, information about Jacques and May Futrelle and some family information.
Dates:
1901-1914, 1936, 1969, 1995-1996, undated; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1914
James Dawson Civil War letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS91f
Scope and Content
This collection includes several letters written by first Lieutenant James Dawson of the 92nd Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers, Company H. He wrote to his wife from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia.
Dates:
1862-1864
James E. Williams papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS329
Scope and Content
This collection documents Williams family members and their businesses, including letters, bills, and receipts. There are three bound books: a checkbook from 1854, Williams company account book from 1859, and a scrapbook from 1904-1905. There are also several Confederate bond receipts and checks, letters from the field, a parole, monthly subsistence papers, a land indenture, and a broadside of a speach James's WIlliams gave in Atlanta. Other items include a fire insurance policy dated...
Dates:
1820-1905, undated
James Farson Civil War narrative and slave bill of sale
Collection
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 L. Bell papers
Collection
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
Collection
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 Neuman and Tripp family Civil War correspondence
Collection
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 R. Crew papers
Collection
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
Collection
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
Collection
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
John A. Caho papers
Collection
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 Craig Evans civil war letters
Collection
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
Collection
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 K. Murdoch letter
Collection
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
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