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Hayden family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1183
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks from Julius Hayden and Evelyn Whitner, Julius' granddaughter. Julius' scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the presidential election of 1860 as well as the first year of the American Civil War. Evelyn's scrapbook contains image clippings mostly of women, children, and animals. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1861-1946, undated

Henry Beck Civil War diaries

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Collection number: ahc.MSS422f
Scope and Content The collection consists of two volumes of Beck’s diary compiled during his service in the Army of Northern Virginia. Beck’s diaries from 1861 through February 1864 were lost in a 1894 fire at the headquarters of a Confederate Reunion in Birmingham. In 327 diary entries, Beck provides detailed observations on the daily life of an enlisted man in the Confederate Army. Beck ruminates on weather conditions, daily marches, and his primary duty of feeding the troops. He gives detailed accounts of...
Dates: 1864-1865, undated

Henry "Harry" L. Stone papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS624f
Scope and Content This collection contains the daily schedule for October 9, 1865, of the 40th U. S. Colored Infantry and special orders regarding the accounting of clothing in this infantry and disciplinary action of two officers. Another special order dated August 7, 1863, appoints Stone as the clerk for the headquarters of the Department of the Ohio. Also included is early paper currency from the colony of New York produced in 1776 and the state of Maine produced in 1778. The collection contains a letter...
Dates: 1776-1875

Henry Thomas Davenport collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS273f
Scope and Content

This collection contains photocopies of transcriptions of letters written by Confederate soldier Henry Thomas Davenport to his family. Also included is a paper entitled "A Dime That Bought Freedom" by Sarah Pfeiffer about Davenport, her great uncle.

Dates: 1861-1864, undated

Historic newspaper collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS838
Scope and Content

This collection contains newspapers that document important historic events and aspects of local, national, and international news. The collection focuses on the following subjects: the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and special events such as the Civil War Centennial.

Dates: 1886-1993

Holbrook and Jefferson family Civil War letter and marriage certificate

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Collection number: ahc.MSS160f
Scope and Content

This collection includes the marriage certificate of James H. Holbrook and Mary E. Jefferson and a letter from 1st Lieutenant Thomas E. Jefferson to his wife and children. He writes about his travels, the potential for fights with "the yankees," and asks them to pray for him.

Dates: 1862 April-May

Holliday Family Civil War Correspondence

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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

Horatio McMullan letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS424f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of letters written by Horatio McMullan to his sister and to "Jack". The letters were written from Richmond, Virginia in July 22 and Aug. 2, 1861.

Dates: 1861

Hosea Garrett, Jr. civil war letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS119f
Scope and Content This collection contains two transcribed letters. The first letter of the collection was written by Hosea Garrett, Jr. to his uncle, Reverend Hosea Garrett, on August 1, 1864. This letter provides a detailed account of the Atlanta Campaign, and the fighting that occurred on July 27, 1864. In his account, Garrett notes that not only were Confederate troops far outnumbered, but General Walker was also killed early in the battle, making the troops disorganized and ineffective. Due to their lack...
Dates: 1864

Huff Family Correspondence and Reciept

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Collection number: ahc.MSS682f
Scope and Content The collection contains twenty-three letters and one receipt written by and to the members of the Huff family and their friends. Included are letters written between 1853 and 1855 by Albert, Green, Jackson, Zipporah, and Monroe Willis. The young men wrote about traveling to Quitman, Texas to open a mercantile business. Their letters cover topics including the quality of the land, their trouble in finding spouses, the integrity of the locals, and the purchasing of goods for their business. ...
Dates: 1853-1869

Hugh Black Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS31f
Scope and Content

This collection contains photo copies of two letters written by Hugh Black, a soldier in the Confederate army, to his wife. He writes about how he feels it is impossible for the Confederates to hold the city and how Atlanta will fall to the enemy in a short time. The date of the photocopies is unknown.

Dates: July 1864

Hunter family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS371f
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes of the State House and Senate in Milledgeville, Georgia, for 1864 and various papers of E. A. Perkins who married into the Hunter family. The minute book ledger was kept by Ed Walker who later ran a general store in Milledgeville. The papers of Edward A. Perkins include insurance policies, patents on an insect exterminator, harness attachment, and lightning pea planter, a drawing, and a memorial resolution, among other material.

Dates: 1864-1906

H.W. Santelle medical journal

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Collection number: ahc.MSS629f
Scope and Content This collection consists of a journal kept by H. W. Santelle. It records the medical treatment of three patients he attended from 1863-1864. He notes their rank, age, regiment, company, injury, and battle where the injury was sustained. Each soldiers' health and treatment are documented, and the journal includes a post mortem examination report. The three soldiers were: Clarance L. Coulter, a twenty-four year old corporal in Company G, 123 New York Volunteers; Thomas Ruffin, a thirty-seven...
Dates: 1863-1892

J. P. Crane letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS78f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of letters written by J. P. Crane of the Georgia 66th Regiment. Included are letters he wrote to his father and sister while in Dalton and Jonesboro, Georgia, and Alabama. Also included are letters written by an individual identified as Clinton, who wrote to his wife from Milledgeville, Georgia and South Carolina.

Dates: 1863-1865

J. T. McCormick collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS225f
Scope and Content

This collection includes photocopies of letters from J. T. McCormick to his father and brother, and letters to McCormick from A. A. Powell, and John C. White. There is also a bill of sale from Rich C. McCartey to McCormick and a land grant belonging to Patrick B. May of Alabama.

Dates: 1837-1862

Jacob Dolson Cox Civil War diary

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Collection number: ahc.MSS76f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a photographic copy of a diary created by Jacob Dolson Cox, a Brigadier-General of Ohio Volunteers in which he describes military operations in East Tennessee; Franklin, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; and North Carolina in 1864 and 1865.

Dates: 1864-1865

Jacques Futrelle papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS919
Scope and Content

This collection consists of manuscript and published copies of stories, programs for plays, information about Jacques and May Futrelle and some family information.

Dates: 1901-1914, 1936, 1969, 1995-1996, undated; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1914

James Dawson Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS91f
Scope and Content

This collection includes several letters written by first Lieutenant James Dawson of the 92nd Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers, Company H. He wrote to his wife from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia.

Dates: 1862-1864

James Dunwoody Jones papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS191f
Scope and Content This collection contains an 1862 letter from James Dunwoody Jones, a 2nd Lieutenant and Drill Master from Georgia, and his reminiscences of the Civil War. The collection also contains documents relating to members of his family; specifically, a memorial to the Reverend John Jones. The collection also contains a hand written speech to the Confederate Veterans; and two 18th century documents belonging to Elizabeth Munro. The documents appear to be a listing of items on an account. The...
Dates: 1788-1895, undated

James E. Williams papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS329
Scope and Content This collection documents Williams family members and their businesses, including letters, bills, and receipts. There are three bound books: a checkbook from 1854, Williams company account book from 1859, and a scrapbook from 1904-1905. There are also several Confederate bond receipts and checks, letters from the field, a parole, monthly subsistence papers, a land indenture, and a broadside of a speach James's WIlliams gave in Atlanta. Other items include a fire insurance policy dated...
Dates: 1820-1905, undated

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Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 2
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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
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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
Bomar, Thomas 2
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
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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
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Andrews, Charles H. (Charles Haynes), 1835-1905 1
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Anthony, Mark 1
Ard, Joseph U. 1
Armestead, Walter S. 1
Armstrong, Adolphus 1
Ashley, John T. 1
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