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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Edwards family collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS345
Scope and Content

This collection is primarily comprised of genealogy and family records pertaining to the Edwards family. Included in the collection are family histories, biographical sketches, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1714-1975, undated

Harvey Smith Jr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates: 1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980

Margaret Mitchell House Archives

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content

The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1848-2002, undated

Maud Morrow Brown Civil War manuscript and letter from Margaret Mitchell

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS172f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a typed copy of the diary of William Decatur Howell, a Confederate soldier of Oxford, Mississippi who served in Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign. The diary also contains a short biography of Howell. The manuscript was compiled by Howell's aunt, Maud Morrow Brown in 1931. The collection also contains a letter from author Margaret Mitchell to Ms. Brown regarding the manuscript.

Dates: 1931, 1941