Scope and Contents

This collection contains research materials pertaining to the Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records. Included are biographical and contextual descriptions written by Day in the early 2000s about civilian contractors and Confederate officer and enlisted personnel mentioned within those records. There are also copies of webpages about these individuals and their assigned military units.

Scope and Content This collection contains 1 telegram and 106 letters written between members of the Simms family. The collection also contains transcriptions of 52 of the letters. Most of the letters were written by Arthur Benjamin Simms to his sister Lucy Jane Simms, however there are also some letters written to his mother Jerusha Simms. Other letters were written by Lucy Jane Simms, James Phillip Simms, Jerusha Simms, and Richard Lee Simms, Jr. All but three of Arthur Benjamin’s letters were written from...