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Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bruce & Morgan architectural specifications

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS877f
Scope and Content

This collection contains architectural specifications for the rebuilding of the Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia in Atlanta. The plan was produced by the Bruce and Morgan Architectural Firm and sent to a building committee for approval.

Dates: 1902

Calhoun family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS50
Scope and Content The Calhoun family papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, military papers, and family history. The primary contributors to the collection are James Montgomery Calhoun and his son, William Lowndes Calhoun. Notable items in the collection include an undated Calhoun family history, a personal account of Sherman’s siege of Atlanta by Robert Henderson, a family Bible, a handwritten copy of the affidavit of James M. Calhoun regarding the surrender of Atlanta, and a floor plan of...
Dates: 1834-1960, undated

Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS7
Scope and Contents of the Records The collection consists of over 700 typed pages of information about residents of the Confederate Soldier’s Home of Georgia. The list of inmates represented in this collection is not comprehensive. The information was copied from three registers kept at the Home between 1901 and 1941 and each page contains vital records and history of military service. Information about each veteran includes name, date and place of birth, unit and rank, date of capture, surrender, or injury, date of entry...
Dates: undated

Lorena Pace Pruitt collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS493
Scope and Content

This collection contains Confederate Soldiers Home administrative materials, a few personal papers, and a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains materials pertaining to the Confederate Soldiers Home and the Georgia State Patrol. Personal papers include a copy of the Civil War record of Mrs. Pruitt's grandfather, Green B. Bentley.

Dates: 1932-1982, undated

Lucy Stockard photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS446
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Lucy Stockard and her activities with the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard of Atlanta, a veterans organization. There are also several photos of Ponce de Leon Park (also known as Spiller Field) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Confederate Soldiers' Home, also known as the Confederate Veterans' Home. Many of the photographs include additional information on the backside of the photos, and several were taken by Atlanta...
Dates: approximately 1910-1950, undated

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Architect-designed houses 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1