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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

Ella May Powell scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS467f
Scope and Content This collection contains a scrapbook and scrapbook fragments. Materials collected in the scrapbook include poetry, newspaper clippings, speeches, DeGive's Opera House programs, an 1885 edition of the Sunny South, and documentation about the life of Powell's father, Fielding Travis Powell. Of particular note are documents on Powell's advocacy of Confederate Monuments and the suffragist movement, two medicine recipes, and an image of the Georgia College of...
Dates: 1847-1962, undated

Thomas O'Reilly Monument photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS331
Scope and Content

This collection captures the unveiling of the O'Reilly Monument in front of the Atlanta City Hall on the corner of Washington Street and Mitchell Street. The monument was erected by the Atlanta Historical Society.

Dates: 1945 October 18

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