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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
Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS375
Scope and Content
This collection contains organizational records and histories of the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association. Also included are historical items collected by members as well as newspaper clippings, programs, and membership information. There are files pertaining to member genealogy and biographies of Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1866-1977
Civil War Confederate cartes de visite collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS206
Scope and Content
This collection contains twenty-six cartes de visite of Confederate generals and politicians. Generals include Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest among others. Politicians include images of President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens as a young man. There is also an image of Emperor Napoleon III of France.
Dates:
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
DuBose family visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS198
Scope and Content
This collection contains artwork, images, and maps collected by the DuBose family. The artwork pertains to Civil War historical sites and scenes and includes etchings, engravings, drawings, and paintings. Much of the artwork was done by Wilbur G. Kurtz (1882-1967), a family friend, historian, writer, and artist. There are original photographs from the Civil War era in a variety of formats, such as cartes de visite, tintypes, and albumen prints. Photographic subject matter includes military...
Dates:
1783-2023, undated
James L. Bell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS848f
Scope and Content
This collection documents the life of James L. Bell and Bell family genealogy. Included are letters to Bell from William J. Hilburn, a fellow soldier; Captain Charles K. Maddox, under whom both Bell and Hilburn served during their military service; Walter A. Wiley; and A. T. Spalding, a pastor at Second Baptist Church in Atlanta. There is also research on the Bell family, gathered by James L. Bell’s great-granddaughter Edith H. Cook, that traces the family back to the 18th century. Cook also...
Dates:
1876-1983, undated
Myra Sheetz Harper letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS404f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a typescript and transcription of a letter written to Myra Sheetz Harper from Marion M. Hite, secretary to General Robert E. Lee, from headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, Chaffins Bluff on the James River, on October 2, 1864.
Dates:
1864
Samuel L. Roe family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS715f
Scope and Content
This collection consists primarily of letters written by Samuel L. Roe and C.W.G. Roe while the brothers were serving in Company H, 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the United States Civil War. The letters describe troop movements; weather conditions; rations; the lack of adequate shoes, clothing, and pay; and other details regarding living and battle conditions during the war. Of particular interest are comments in the letters about taking "Yankee" prisoners, religious...
Dates:
1841-1875, undated
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
United Daughters of the Confederacy visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS470
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection contains photographs documenting Confederate monuments and cemeteries in several Georgia cities. Of particular note are images of the DeKalb County Confederate Monument and Savannah Civil War Memorial, as well as an enlarged photograph of the orignal concept for the Stone Mountain carving. Also part of the collection are images of UDC activities and identified members of the Georgia Division and various Atlanta chapters, including Atlanta Chapter No. 18 President...
Dates:
approximately 1850-1987, undated
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
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- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 6
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 4
- DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 3
- Georgia. Militia 3
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 3
- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 3
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 3
- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 2
- DuBose Family 2
- DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
- DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
- Dubose, Beverly Means 2
- Ladies' Memorial Association 2
- Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 2
- Morgan, John Hunt 2
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- United Daughters of the Confederacy. Atlanta Chapter No. 18 2
- United Daughters of the Confederacy. Georgia Division. Alfred Holt Colquit Chapter (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Allen family 1
- Andervount, Jacob 1
- Atlanta Historical Society 1
- Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association 1
- Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 1
- Baptist Banner (Newspaper) 1
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
- Behnken family 1
- Bell family 1
- Bell, James L. 1
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- Brandon, H. L. 1
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- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 1
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- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 63rd 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Sharpshooter Battalion, 4th 1
- Confederate States of America. Ordnance Bureau 1
- Cook, Edith Harber, 1918- 1
- Copeland, Stephan W. 1
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- Harper, Myra Sheetz 1
- Harris, Volney S. 1
- Hill, A. P. (A. Powell) 1
- Hite, Marion M. 1
- Horsley, William 1
- Howard, Leslie 1
- Hubbard, Elizabeth Roe, 1830-1917 1
- Jackson, Stonewall 1
- Johns, Ephram H. 1
- Johnston, Albert Sidney 1
- Jones, E. W. 1
- Junior League of Atlanta 1
- Kerksis, Sydney C. 1
- Kirby-Smith, Edmund 1
- Kurtz, Annie Laurie Fuller, 1884-1946 1
- Kurtz, Annie Laurie, 1921- 1
- Kurtz, Annie Rachel Pye, 1895-1985 1
- Kurtz, Eugene 1
- Kurtz, Wilbur, 1912-1991 1
- Leigh, Vivien 1
- Leyden, Austin 1
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
- Linscott, Harry 1
- Lockman, John 1
- Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman) 1
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.) 1
- Marshall, Fannie Calhoun 1
- McCall, E. H. 1
- McCay, C. F. (Charles Francis) 1
- McDaniel, Hattie 1
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