Grant, Lemuel Pratt
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1817 - 1893
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Lemuel P. Grant papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS100
Scope and Content
This collection contains letters to and from Grant regarding construction of railroads in Pennsylvania and throughout the southeastern United States; the defense of Atlanta during the Civil War; and personal matters. Other items in the collection include Grant’s personal diaries from 1843, 1844, and 1845, as well as account books covering railroad land transactions; railroad costs; and cash accounts. Additional items include a report on the condition of railroads around Atlanta, Georgia,...
Dates:
1838-1869
Filtered By
- Subject: Slavery X
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- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Bounty hunters -- Georgia 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Railroad companies -- Georgia. 1
- Railroads -- Employees 1
- Railroads -- Georgia 1
- Railroads -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Railroads -- Surveying 1
- Slavery 1
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century 1
- Slaves -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Slaves -- Social conditions 1
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1 + ∧ less
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