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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

Cornelius Hanleiter Papers

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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)

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

John Matthew McCrary papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS152
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence between John McCrary and his wife, Mary Boyd; his brother, Robert, and mother, Nancy, during John McCrary's service in the Georgia Volunteers during the Civil War. Additional records include a contract between John McCrary and his former slaves; his furlough order; and a list of Mr. McCrary's taxable property.

Dates: 1862-1865, undated

Reverend John Wesley Stipe Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS685f
Scope and Content This collection consists of genealogical information about John Wesley Stipe as well as typewritten and handwritten memoirs of his childhood, the days of his first marriage, Civil War service, and career as a Methodist Episcopal circuit pastor. His typewritten memoirs describe life in rural antebellum Georgia including such activities as justice courts, log rolling, and corn shucking. Of particular interest are two handwritten journal entries, written in the style of a newspaper series,...
Dates: 1864-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1961

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Andervount, Jacob 1
Atlanta Public Library. Ida Williams Branch 1
Baptist Banner (Newspaper) 1
Brandon, H. L. 1
Cobb, Howell 1
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Collins, Ellis 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 38th. Company C 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. Sharpshooter Battalion, 4th 1
Copeland, Stephan W. 1
Cox, John C. 1
Davis, Larkin 1
Georgia. Militia 1
Githins, Will H. 1
Grant, Lemuel Pratt 1
Hanleiter family 1
Hanleiter, Cornelius Redding 1
Harris, Volney S. 1
Horsley, William 1
Johns, Ephram H. 1
Jones, E. W. 1
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Leyden, Austin 1
Linscott, Harry 1
Lockman, John 1
McCall, E. H. 1
McCay, C. F. (Charles Francis) 1
McCrary, John Matthew 1
McCrary, Mary Boyd 1
McKay, Philip 1
Mercer, John J. 1
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. North Georgia Conference 1
Mitchell, William A. 1
Morgan, John Hunt 1
Morlan, J. A. 1
Rawson, E. E. 1
Richards, Samuel P. 1
Rogers, J. H. 1
Rogers, William H. H. 1
Scarborough, Drury P. 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
Soldiers friend (Newspaper) 1
Southern Railway (U.S.) 1
Stanley, Henry S. 1
Stipe, John Wesley, Reverend 1
Terry, Carlisle 1
Thib, S. C. 1
Thomas, Charles W. 1
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 42nd (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 78th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. Infantry. Ohio Regiment, 80th 1
United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865) 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 119th (1862-1865) 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 136th (1862-1865) 1
Vickers, L. E. 1
Ward, William S. 1
White, Cynthia 1
White, J. R. 1
Williams family 1
Williams, James Etheldred 1
Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1
Woodworth, Edwin C. 1
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