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Celia Bressler Richheimer essay
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS288f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a twelve-page essay written by Celia Bressler, a sixth grade student at Walker Street School in Atlanta, Georgia titled "Causes That Led to the War Between the States". It was awarded first place in an essay contest held by the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Dates:
1915
Charles J. Hayden photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS346
Scope and Content
This collection contains photographs of an army encampment or reunion (memorial) at Chickamauga which includes images of cavalry camps and tents. Photographs also depict monuments to Wisconsin cavalry and Tennessee cavalry units. Of note are images of African American regiments.
Dates:
1898, undated
Charles R. Pomeroy, Jr. Civil War letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS723f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of six letters written by Charles R. Pomeroy, Jr. to his family while serving in Company A, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. Five are addressed to his sister and one to his father. The letters describe conditions faced by Union soldiers during the campaign including the lack of adequate shelter from the weather; the difficulties they experience while trying to flank Confederate forces; the exhaustion brought on by almost...
Dates:
1864, undated
Charles R. Pomeroy, Jr. Civil War photograph
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS220
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a single carte-de-visite of Charles R. Pomeroy, Jr. in his Civil War uniform.
Dates:
1861-1865
Civil War battle list
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS132f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a 63 page hand written list of battles from the beginning of the Civil War through February 3rd, 1863. It is inscribed by "Bugle Boyd Moses Hall" whose grandmother was a sister to Stonewall Jackson. The list gives an account of major military operations on both sides.
Dates:
undated
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
Civil War documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS461f
Scope and Content
This collection contains receipts, an envelope addressed to Major D. N. Greer; and a typed transcription of a letter sent from Andersonville, Georgia, on October 2, 1864.
Dates:
1859-1864
Civil War era envelopes
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS450f
Scope and Content
This collection contains five Civil War era envelopes with stamps and cancellations, each addressed to Alexander H. Stephens in Richmond, Virginia, with handwritten notes on back of each envelope telling Stephens what the sender wants.
Dates:
1861-1865
Civil War morning reports scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS792f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook made out of a Civil War morning reports book from 1864, which contains written records of several officers of the 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps Detachment of Tennessee. The book is labeled as "M. E. Whitehurst's Scrapbook" and includes additions such as a newspaper page and clippings, the majority of which contains poems; an 1874 Walker and Watson advertisement; a 1917 "Farmer's Bulletin" on nutrition from the United States Department of Agriculture;...
Dates:
1837-1923, undated
Civil War Round Table of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS380
Scope and Content
This collection is primarily comprised of organizational records for the Civil War Round Table of Atlanta. Included in the collection is membership applications, meeting minutes, organizational documents, chapter newsletters, and correspondence.
Dates:
1950-1995
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
Cobb's Legion documents
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS705f
Scope and Content
This collection documents the members of Cobb's Legion. Included are a roster of names from the last roll call of Cobb's Legion and requisition for forage forms from the Legion's time in Virginia.
Dates:
1863, 1865
Colin Dunlop civil war letters
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS96f
Scope and Contents of the Records
This collection contains the transcriptions of three letters written during the Civil War by Colin Dunlop. The first letter was written to his sister on April 13, 1864 at a Confederate Army camp near Dalton, Georgia. Within the letter, he mentions that he has no access to news due to the newspaper strike in Atlanta, and gives his sister updates on his health. He also asks her to give his regards to other family members and friends. The second letter to his sister was written on August 13,...
Dates:
1864, 1945
Colonel Allen Phelps Julian collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS195f
Scope and Content
This collection contains copies of speeches and articles written by Allen P. Julian on topics about the Civil War and the Atlanta Campaign, such as Fort McAllister, Collier Mill mill stones, the Confederate flag, Confederate Memorial Day, Governor Joseph E. Brown and Joe Brown's Pikes, and the Army of Tennessee.
Dates:
1864-1960, undated
Colonel Thomas Spencer photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS459
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs taken by Colonel Thomas Spencer of buildings and sites related to the American Civil War, largely the Battle of Chickamauga and battlesites in the Atlanta Campaign. Most of the photographs were taken in Georgia, with some in Tennessee and Alabama. Many buildings depicted served as headquarters and hospitals of one or both armies during the Civil War. This collection also contains photographs of historical markers, maps, and confederate flags. In addition...
Dates:
1950-1954, undated
Company D, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry muster roll
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS722f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a muster roll (including pay information) for Company D, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops covering the period 31 December 1864 to 30 April 1865. The roll includes the names of three officers and seventy-two men. For each entry, the roll includes the place and date of enlistment; where, when, and by whom mustered; the last date of pay; and comments about the current status of each man. Comments include details about absences due to sickness, battle...
Dates:
1864-1865
Confederate hospital transfer order
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS535f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a hospital transfer order, signed by "Jus. T. Johnson" which transferred Lieutenant James B. Wade of Echols Artillery from General Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, to General Hospital in Washington, Georgia.
Dates:
1865 April 23
Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia Register of Inmates
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS7
Scope and Contents of the Records
The collection consists of over 700 typed pages of information about residents of the Confederate Soldier’s Home of Georgia. The list of inmates represented in this collection is not comprehensive. The information was copied from three registers kept at the Home between 1901 and 1941 and each page contains vital records and history of military service. Information about each veteran includes name, date and place of birth, unit and rank, date of capture, surrender, or injury, date of entry...
Dates:
undated
Cornelius Hanleiter Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS109
Scope and Content
The collection includes five bound volumes of Cornelius Hanleiter’s war diary from 1861 – 1865, along with correspondence, including a letter from Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. The collection also contains sketches of Hanleiter’s outpost in Savannah, and other documents relating to his service in the Army of the Confederacy. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to the careers of C.R. Hanleiter, Lemuel P. Grant, Colonel Tom Harvard, Anton L. Kontz, and Jonathan...
Dates:
1825-1944, undated, (bulk 1861-1865)
Crumley and Berry family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS76
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, memoirs, military records, diaries, and newspaper clippings relating to the Crumley and Berry families of Atlanta, Georgia. Correspondence from William Greg Crumley to his parents includes letters, telegrams and postcards written while he was stationed in France, England and Belgium during World War I. He described personal illnesses, travels during leave, and the duties of a medical officer. He noted how to care for soldiers who had been exposed to...
Dates:
1864-1921, undated
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- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
- Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 10
- Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
- Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
- Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 8
- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 5
- Confederate States of America. Army 5
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 5
- Georgia. Militia 5
- Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 5
- United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
- Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia 4
- Gable, Clark, 1901-1960 4
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 4
- Junior League of Atlanta 4
- Leigh, Vivien 4
- Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum. 3
- Atlanta Historical Society 3
- Civil War Round Table, Atlanta 3
- Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion 3
- Confederate States of America. Navy 3
- Daughters of the American Revolution 3
- De Havilland, Olivia 3
- DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 3
- Fuller family 3
- Fuller, William Allen 3
- Grant, Lemuel Pratt 3
- Hood, John Bell 3
- Kurtz, Annie Laurie Fuller, 1884-1946 3
- Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
- Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 3
- Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 3
- Atlanta (Ga.). Department of Parks and Recreation 2
- Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 2
- Avary, Myrta Lockett 2
- Bomar family 2
- Bomar, Benjamin F. 2
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- Brown family 2
- Calhoun, James Montgomery 2
- Carnegie, Andrew 2
- Cobb family 2
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 2
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 2
- Daniel, George Hewitt 2
- Davidson family 2
- DeGress, Francis, 1840-1883 2
- DuBose Family 2
- DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
- DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
- Dubose, Beverly Means 2
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 2
- Grant family 2
- Hall family 2
- Hampton, Wade 2
- Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 2
- Howell, Evan P. (Evan Park) 2
- Jackson, Stonewall 2
- Johnston, Albert Sidney 2
- Jones family 2
- Kerksis, Sydney C. 2
- Killian family 2
- Kurtz, Wilbur, 1912-1991 2
- Ladies' Memorial Association 2
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
- Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Lombard, Carole 2
- Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 2
- Marsh, John R. (John Robert) 2
- Morgan, John Hunt 2
- Pomeroy, Charles R., Jr. 2
- Richards, Samuel P. 2
- Selznick, David O. 2
- Smith family 2
- Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization) 2
- Spalding, Mary Connally, 1877-1953 2
- Stanley, Henry S. 2
- United States. Army 2
- United States. Army of the Cumberland 2
- United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) 2
- United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865) 2
- United States. Navy. 2
- Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
- Aircraft Warning Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Akin, Warren, 1811-1877 1
- Alexander, Cecil A., 1918-2013 1
- Alexander, Rebecca Ella Solomons, 1854-1938 1
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Dwight S., 1843-1908 1
- American Red Cross 1
- Anderson, Zachery T. 1
- Andersonville Prison 1
- Andervount, Jacob 1
- Andrews, Charles H. (Charles Haynes), 1835-1905 1
- Andrews, Lewis H. 1
- Anthony, Mark 1
- Ard, Joseph U. 1
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