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Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia

 Organization

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Calhoun family papers

Colonel Thomas Spencer photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS459
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs taken by Colonel Thomas Spencer of buildings and sites related to the American Civil War, largely the Battle of Chickamauga and battlesites in the Atlanta Campaign. Most of the photographs were taken in Georgia, with some in Tennessee and Alabama. Many buildings depicted served as headquarters and hospitals of one or both armies during the Civil War. This collection also contains photographs of historical markers, maps, and confederate flags. In addition...
Dates: 1950-1954, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Colonel Thomas Spencer photographs

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Lorena Pace Pruitt collection

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 1
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Battlefield monuments -- Georgia -- Chickamauga 1
Chickamauga (Ga.) 1
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.) 1
Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Confederate States of America -- History, Military 1
Fulton County (Ga.) -- History 1
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Military camps -- Georgia -- Chickamauga 1
Scrapbooks -- Georgia 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 1
Veterans' hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
Women -- Societies and clubs 1
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