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Antebellum and Civil War Collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS645
Scope and Contents of the Records This is a collection of documents, most of which chronicle the history of the American Civil War, particularly the Atlanta Campaign. In addition, there are several documents which reflect the history of the Antebellum South, including African American slavery. The collection includes letters, diaries, special orders, pardons, requisitions, poems, pamphlets, newspapers, personal narratives, biographies, circulars, broadsides, muster rolls, currency, bibles, research papers, and other private...
Dates: 1832-1935, undated

Artimesia W. Tucker testimony

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Collection number: ahc.MSS653f
Scope and Content This collection contains an Ante bellum document requesting Clifford Anderson and Elcania W. Tucker to transcribe and notarize the testimony of Artimesia W. Tucker in the legal case of Green J. Blake against the Southern Mutual Insurance Company. The collection also contains the handwritten transcription of her testimony dated June 5, 1855. The case was scheduled to appear before Judge James Jackson of the Superior Court of Clarke County, Georgia in June of 1855. Due to demonstrated...
Dates: 1855

Constance Spalding Anderson photographs of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families

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Collection number: ahc.VIS429
Scope and Contents

This collection contains images of the Brown, Connally, and Spalding families and their friends. It primarily features identified portraits of women. Of special note is an image of Rand Peacock (possibly 1835-?), a man who was enslaved by the Connally family. Also included in the collection are signed photographs of actress Emma Abbott (1850-1891).

Dates: 1870-1918, undated

Cornelius Hanleiter Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS109
Scope and Content The collection includes five bound volumes of Cornelius Hanleiter’s war diary from 1861 – 1865, along with correspondence, including a letter from Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. The collection also contains sketches of Hanleiter’s outpost in Savannah, and other documents relating to his service in the Army of the Confederacy. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to the careers of C.R. Hanleiter, Lemuel P. Grant, Colonel Tom Harvard, Anton L. Kontz, and Jonathan...
Dates: 1825-1944, undated, (bulk 1861-1865)

D. C. Colley funeral invitation

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Collection number: ahc.MSS68f
Scope and Content

The collection contains a hand written funeral invitation for Lieutenant D. C. Colley who served in Company G, 61st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry. According to Mr. Colley's great-niece the invitation was shown door-to-door on a silver plate by a servant.

Dates: 1863

Daniel and William A. McDougald papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS229f
Scope and Content

This collection contains land deeds from Macon County, Muscogee County, and Meriwether County in Georgia, receipts, business records, and legal documents. Of particular note is a bill of sale for enslaved people in Muscogee County, Georgia; a list of enslaved people with ages and brief descriptions; and correspondence relating to land transactions on the part of William A. and Daniel McDougald.

Dates: 1825-1889, undated

Elijah A. Brown, Sr. papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS38
Scope and Content

These papers consist of business and personal papers, including correspondence and financial records of Elijah A. Brown, Sr. and some of Elijah A. Brown, Jr. In addition, ther are papers pertaining to several Brown Family members, including Governor Joseph E. Brown, Julius I. Brown, and Marcus J. Brown.

Dates: 1826-1965, undated

Emma E. Latimer scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS291
Scope and Content

This collection contains a partial scrapbook pertaining to the Latimer family. Included in the scrapbook are photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, class rosters, and receipts.

Dates: 1867-1932

Garrett-Walthall family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS4
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and business papers of the Garrett and Walthall families. Included are typescript transcripts of property records, estate records, and genealogical records. Some of the records transcribed were created as early as 1794 and reflect the families' personal wealth and, in some cases, the ownership of enslaved African Americans. Also included is an original application to the Daughters of the American Revolution and an account of the gardens of Walthall Place...
Dates: 1937, undated

James E. Williams papers

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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

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

Junius Hillyer memoirs

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Collection number: ahc.MSS156f
Scope and Content This collection contains the memoirs of Junius Hillyer, a political leader and judge. In his memoirs titled Memoirs of the Early Life and Times of Judge Junius Hillyer he describes his family genealogy; his boyhood and schooling, including his years at the University of Georgia, and growing up in Georgia. He also records his opinions on slavery. He believed that slavery "is the normal condition of the negro race." He talks about the customs of his times and the...
Dates: 1937

Kate Hester Robson autobiographical manuscript

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Collection number: ahc.MSS291f
Scope and Content This collection contains a 1912 autobiography of Kate Hester Robson, who lived in Atlanta from 1859 until her death in 1914. Robson writes about her moving to Atlanta in 1859 where her family lived in a house on the corner of Marietta and Spring Street. During the Civil War she made a Confederate flag and presented it to General Gordon's first company. Her husband managed the coal mines of Dade County, Georgia, until the approach of Union forces in 1864. She made uniforms for soldiers and...
Dates: 1912

Lochrane and Reid family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1203
Scope and Contents This collection documents the Reid and Lochrane families, as well as the associated families Grant and Rudolph. The bulk of papers is correspondence, primarily from Sallie Fannie Reid. Other items include legal material from Osborne Augustus Lochrane such as speeches, legal decisions, telegraphs, and a funeral announcement; a valedictory speech, calling cards, calendars, receipts, and poetry from the Lochrane family; and receipts and Confederate Army military passes from the Reid family. In...
Dates: 1833-1977, undated; Majority of material found within 1856-1872

Mathews and Joor family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS219f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of personal letters from Ann (Mathews) Joor, the daughter of John Mathews, about the death of "Edward" and from William Joor about a troublesome slave. There are receipts from William Joor and Jonathan Cooper about the transfer of the slave from Savannah, Georgia, to Charleston, South Carolina. Also included are business letters between John Mathews and his cousin, Optimus Hughes, about the sale of James Island.

Dates: 1816-1848, undated

Reverend John Wesley Stipe Papers

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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

Richards family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS176
Scope and Content This collection contains the diaries and typewritten transcripts of the diaries of Samuel P. Richards. Journals of Irene Richards, Sarah V. Richards, and Dora Richards. There is also correspondence, family history, a Bible, and scrapbooks containing various information. These papers chronicle daily events in Atlanta and prices and availability of goods. They also describe the shelling and evacuation of the city and also the travels of S.P. Richards to New York City as a refugee in 1864, and...
Dates: 1842-1945, undated

Samuel Boykin Turman papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS357f
Scope and Content

This collection contains financial records, including indentures, bills of sale, receipts, and account books. Among the records are two bills of sale for enslaved people in Georgia. Also included in the material are account books, bank books, and a day planner.

Dates: 1833-1922, undated

Shaler Hillyer papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS885
Scope and Content

This collection consists of correspondence from and to Shaler Hillyer. Also included is his journal, along with Captain John Freeman's estate inventory and the journals of Marian (also spelled Marion) Jean Hillyer, a descendant of Shaler Hillyer's, as a young girl documenting various trips her family took in the 1880s and 1890s.

Dates: 1797-1892, undated

Stephen D. Smith letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS588f
Scope and Content

One letter dated May 14, 1860, from Stephen D. Smith to Dear Sir asking for a ingredient cure for an enslaved African American child who has fits.

Dates: 1860

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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 2
Connors, Lillian Lochrane, 1873-1964 2
Richards, Samuel P. 2
Abbott, Emma, 1850-1891 1
Anderson, Constance Schaffner Spalding, 1906-1997 1
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Andervount, Jacob 1
Atlanta Public Library. Ida Williams Branch 1
Baptist Banner (Newspaper) 1
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 1
Boys High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Brandon, H. L. 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Elijah Alexander, Sr. 1
Brown, Elizabeth Grisham, 1826-1896 1
Brown, Martha Fort, 1872-1907 1
Brown, Sally Eugenia, 1862-1942 1
C. W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Cobb, Howell 1
Colley, D. C. 1
Collins, Ellis 1
Condon, Linnie, 1844-1909 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 38th. Company C 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 14th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 63rd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Sharpshooter Battalion, 4th 1
Connally family 1
Connally, Joseph E. Brown, 1875-1920 1
Connally, Mary Virginia Brown, 1850-1927 1
Copeland, Stephan W. 1
Cox, John C. 1
Davis, Larkin 1
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 1
Freeman, John, Captain 1
Gaines, W. W. 1
Garrett family 1
Garrett, William Jeremiah 1
Georgia. Militia 1
Girls High School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Githins, Will H. 1
Grant family 1
Grant, Lemuel Pratt 1
Grant, Lillian Lochrane, 1928-1988 1
Grant, Sallie Fannie (Sarah Frances Reid), 1839-1920 1
Grant, William Daniel, 1837-1901 1
Hanleiter family 1
Hanleiter, Cornelius Redding 1
Harris, Volney S. 1
Hentz, Frances Connally, 1888-1941 1
Hillyer, Junius 1
Hillyer, Marian Jean 1
Hillyer, Shaler 1
Horsley, William 1
Inman family 1
Johns, Ephram H. 1
Jones, E. W. 1
Joor, Ann Mathews 1
Joor, William 1
Latimer, Emma E. 1
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Leyden, Austin 1
Linscott, Harry 1
Lochrane family 1
Lochrane, Osborne A. (Osborne Augustus), 1829-1887 1
Lockman, John 1
Maguire, Catherine 1
Maguire, John E., 1840-1898 1
Maguire, Thomas Jefferson, 1834-1861 1
Maguire, Thomas, 1801-1886 1
Martin, Sally Connally 1
Mathewes, John R. (John Raven), 1788-1867 1
McCall, E. H. 1
McCay, C. F. (Charles Francis) 1
McCrary, John Matthew 1
McCrary, Mary Boyd 1
McDougald family 1
McDougald, Daniel, 1798-1849 1
McDougald, William, 1838-1887 1
McKay, Philip 1
Mercer, John J. 1
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Georgia Conference 1
Mitchell, William A. 1
Moore, Thomas 1
Morgan, John Hunt 1
Morlan, J. A. 1
Nolan, Thomas F. 1
Peacock, Rand 1
Rawson, E. E. 1
Reid family 1
Reid, William, 1810-1873 1
Richards, Dora 1
Richards, Irene 1
Richards, Jabez J. 1
Richards, Sarah 1
Robson, Kate Hester, 1835-1914 1
Rogers, J. H. 1
Rogers, William H. H. 1
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