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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
Davidson Family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS78
Scope and Content
The majority of this collection consists of correspondence between John and Julia Davidson before and during the Civil War. The letters capture a sense of their courtship prior to their wedding in 1855, as well as the physical and spiritual challenges John faced as a soldier in the Confederate Army and those Julia endured in the besieged city of Atlanta. The collection contains several letters written by John Davidson to Julia’s parents who lived in Atlanta and were the proprietors of...
Dates:
1851-1970, bulk 1861-1865
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
Holliday Family Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS116
Scope and Content
This collection contains forty-two original letters written by A. T. Holliday to his wife, Elizabeth (Lizy). These letters were written between July 6, 1864 and September 10, 1864 during Mr. Holliday's service in the Georgia Militia in the Atlanta Campaign. Two additional letters in the collection were written by Elizabeth to A. T. Holliday during the same time period. The letters from A.T. include his reports of skirmishes along the Chattahoochee River and behind picket lines surrounding...
Dates:
1863-1864
James G. Bogle research papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1172
Scope and Content
This collection contains research materials from James G. Bogle's study of George Hewett Daniel (1817-1964), a Confederate soldier. Materials include correspondence from literary agents as well newspaper clippings of Atlanta funerals. Also included is correspondence from Daniel to his daughters and information on his family's genealogy. Of particular note are manuscript drafts of parts II and III of Bogle's book titled George Hewitt Daniel (1817-1864).
Dates:
1837-2002, undated
Mangum family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS217f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of military records from the career of Dr. William L. Mangum as well as other family papers. Documents include military orders for Mangum to raise a cavalry company from wounded Confederate soldiers; personal letters; Confederate military passes; account pages, tax, and other receipts; and birth, marriage, and death certificates. The collection also includes weaving draft patterns from "Lizzie," possibly Mangum's sister Elizabeth, which were translated in the 1990s...
Dates:
1825-1991, undated
Roderick Perry papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.mss806
Scope and Content
This collection contains letters written by Roderick Perry and his family and friends of Warsaw, Kentucky. Also included are letters to soldiers requesting help from Kate Perry, Perry's adjutant handbook, and business cards of merchants supplying goods to prisioners of war.
Dates:
1841 - 1926
Thomas M. Coleman letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS655f
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of one letter written by Coleman to his sister, possibly named Lizzie Coleman, on July 29, 1864, written from a “camp south of Atlanta.” Coleman provides a firsthand account of the Atlanta Campaign describing the charge and repulsion of the "rebels," the reclaiming of lost artillery pieces, and capture of Confederate soldiers. Below Thomas M. Coleman's signature in the same handwriting is "E. Coleman," whose identity has not been determined. A post script stating...
Dates:
1864 July 29
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- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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- Bogle, James G., 1915-2010 1
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- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 1
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- Civil War Centennial Commission of Illinois 1
- Civil War Round Table, Atlanta 1
- Cobb, Howell 1
- Coleman, E. 1
- Coleman, Thomas M. (soldier) 1
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- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 14th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 63rd 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 39th 1
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- Copeland, Stephan W. 1
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- DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 1
- DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 1
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- Dunn family 1
- English, R.W. 1
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- Georgia (Ironclad) 1
- Georgia. Milita. Brigade, 1st. Regiment, 1st. Company A 1
- Githins, Will H. 1
- Grant, Lemuel Pratt 1
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 1
- Groves, John S. 1
- Harris, Volney S. 1
- Holliday family 1
- Holliday, A.T. 1
- Holliday, Elizabeth 1
- Horsley, William 1
- Johns, Ephram H. 1
- Jones, E. W. 1
- Junior League of Atlanta 1
- Kerksis, Sydney C. 1
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 1
- Ladies' Memorial Association 1
- Leyden, Austin 1
- Linscott, Harry 1
- Lockman, John 1
- Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 1
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- Stanley, Henry S. 1
- Tennessee. Civil War Centennial Commission 1
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- Thib, S. C. 1
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