Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1820 - 1891
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Alfred Rolf letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS684f
Scope and Content
The collection contains twenty-three letters written by Corporal Alfred Rolf to his parents and brother in Quebec. Between June and September 1864, Rolf traveled through northwestern Georgia, writing from Lost Mountain, Marietta and at a location described as “Chavotia River.” He wrote that he was wounded during fighting on July 28, 1864, was captured and escaped. In April 1865, he wrote from Raleigh, North Carolina and mentioned the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses...
Dates:
1864-1867
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
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
Clippings of Civil War illustrations
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1030
Scope and Content
This collection contains pages and clippings of illustrations from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War, also called Harper's History of the Great Rebellion. Pages are dated between 1862-1868 with many undated clippings. All contain illustrations depicting Civil War scenes. Illustrations...
Dates:
1862-1867, undated
DuBose family collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of the DuBose family and the historical Civil War items they collected. The personal papers pertain to geneaology, correspondence, and DuBose Jr.'s military service in the United States Navy. Also included are manuscripts and presentations written by members of the DuBose family as well as many collected from others about the Civil War.These papers document the DuBose family's interest in the Civil War. There is...
Dates:
1782-2001, undated
General William Tecumseh Sherman field orders collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1027
Scope and Content
This collection contains fifty-two special field orders (SFOs) handwritten by General Sherman from the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. The bulk of these orders pertain to troop movements of the Military Division of the Mississippi (Union) as it moved through northern Georgia en route to Atlanta. Also contained herein are special instructions for railroad destruction (Sherman's "neckties"), proper placement of military hospitals, treatment of "stragglers and skulkers," the...
Dates:
1864
George Barnard's Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS453
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 22 prints of Barnard’s photographs as he traveled with General Sherman's United States Army. Battlegrounds featured in the collection include Kennesaw, Atlanta, Resaca, Allatoona, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The prints were included in a larger collection published in Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign.
Dates:
1864
J.W. Speir Civil War letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS332f
Scope and Content
This collection contains transcriptions of letters from Confederate soldier J.W. Speir to his wife. He writes about camp conditions, fighting around Atlanta, hospital conditions, and their children.
Dates:
1864
Sally Garrison's account of the Atlanta Campaign
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS173f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a photocopy of Sally Garrison's handwritten account of her recollections of her experiences during the Atlanta Campaign. Her account spans from 1863 to 1864 and includes details of the following; conditions in Atlanta right before the raid, the Battle of Peachtree Creek, the shelling of the city, the surrender of Atlanta, and her experience as an exile fleeing to Macon, then to Dawson, Georgia until the end of the war. It was written at the request of the Thurza...
Dates:
1863-1864
United Daughters of the Confederacy collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS765
Scope and Content
This collection includes records of organizational activities of the Georgia division and of several Atlanta chapters.
Dates:
1849-1979
Wilbur G Kurtz, Sr. visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS197
Scope and Content
This collection contains the family photographs of the Kurtz and Fuller families as well as visual materials Kurtz created and collected during the course of his career. Family photographs pertain to Kurtz and Fuller families as well as a few images from Annie Pye Kurtz prior to her marriage to Wilbur Sr. Also included are images of Wilbur Sr. and friends during his time in Chicago, Illinois. The bulk of this collection is photographic materials which support the research and field work...
Dates:
1859-1972, undated
William M. Standard papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1031
Scope and Content
This collection consists of diaries; correspondence; military records and certificates; newspaper clippings; land deeds; and ephemera pertaining to William M. Standard. The collection also contains a school essay written by Standard's great-great-grandson, Ron Currens, and a 1961 map of Civil War battlefields on which Currens marked the route his ancestor followed during the war. Of particular interest are over 200 letters exchanged between Standard and his wife, Jane, as well...
Dates:
1846-1970, undated
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- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 8
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 4
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Agriculture 2
- Allatoona (Ga.) 2
- Atlanta (Ga.) 2
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 2
- Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 2
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 2
- Resaca (Ga.) 2
- Ringgold (Ga.) 2
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 2
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 2
- Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Actresses -- Georgia 1
- Advertising -- Georgia 1
- Aerial photographs 1
- African Americans -- Georgia 1
- African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- American diaries 1
- Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Barnsley Gardens (Bartow County, Ga.) 1
- Bartow County (Ga.) 1
- Baton Rouge (La.) 1
- Battlefields -- Georgia 1
- Bounty hunters -- Georgia 1
- Business records -- Georgia 1
- Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Carnago (Ill.) 1
- Catoosa County (Ga.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
- Charleston (S.C.) 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Chattanooga (Tenn.) 1
- Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862 1
- Church buildings -- Georgia 1
- Church buildings -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Clayton County (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Cobb County (Ga.) 1
- Columbus (Ga.) 1
- Dalton (Ga.) 1
- Darien (Conn.) 1
- DeKalb County (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Douglas County (Ga.) -- Aerial views 1
- Entertainment events -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Etowah River (Ga.) 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Farm equipment 1
- Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
- Floyd County (Ga.) 1
- Fulton County (Ga.) 1
- Fulton County (Ga.) -- History 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Gone with the wind (Motion picture : 1939) 1
- Gordon County (Ga.) 1
- Great Locomotive Chase (Motion picture) 1
- Greencastle (Ind.) 1
- Griffin (Ga.) 1
- Guntersville (Ala.) 1
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
- Houses -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Illustrators 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Jones Beach State Park (N.Y.) 1
- Jones County (Ga.) 1
- Kennesaw (Ga.) 1
- Kennesaw (Ga.) -- History 1
- Knoxville (Tenn.) 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Locomotives -- Equipment and supplies -- Catalogs 1
- Locomotives -- Georgia 1
- Locomotives -- Maintenance and repair 1
- Lyons (Ill.) 1
- Macon (Ga.) 1
- Meriwether County (Ga.) 1
- Military pensions -- United States 1
- Military uniforms 1
- Money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Morgan County (Ga.) 1
- Morrow Station (Ga.) 1
- Motion picture industry -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Murdock (Ill.) 1
- Murray County (Ga.) 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Oakland (Ill.) 1 + ∧ less
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