Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1820 - 1891
Found in 6 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
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
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 5
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 5
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 2
- Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Agriculture 1
- American diaries 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Bounty hunters -- Georgia 1
- Business records -- Georgia 1
- Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
- Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of, Ga., 1864 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Military pensions -- United States 1
- Military uniforms 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Periodicals 1
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Quartermasters -- United States 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sheet music 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century 1
- Slaves -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- War memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Widows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Women -- History -- 19th century 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 1 + ∧ less
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