Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1815 - 1868
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates:
1859-1865, undated
Governor and Mrs. John M. Slaton visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS209
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs, albumen prints, notecards, and a platinotype collected by Governor Slaton and his wife. Images include portraits of Howell Cobb, Cary B. Wilmer, Julia King (Mrs. Henry) Grady, and James W. English, Jr. Other images include Marechal Foch and Charles Loridaus of France and Thomas Whipple Connally. There is a view of Mrs. John Marshall Slaton in the attire she wore when presented at the court of King George V and Queen Mary. There are portraits of four...
Dates:
1887, 1921-1930, undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 2
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Augusta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Bounty hunters -- Georgia 1
- Clothing & dress -- 1890-1900 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Equipment 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Officers 1
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Uniforms 1
- Enslaved persons -- Confederate States of America 1
- Fashion -- History -- 19th century 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History 1
- Linville (N.C.) 1
- Men's clothing 1
- Military uniforms 1
- Money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Piedmont Park (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Portrait photography 1
- Prisoners of war -- Georgia -- Andersonville 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Railroad engineering -- Georgia 1
- Requisitions, Military 1
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century 1
- Slaves -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1 + ∧ less
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