Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Person
Found in 5 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
DuBose family collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1020
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of the DuBose family and the historical Civil War items they collected. The personal papers pertain to geneaology, correspondence, and DuBose Jr.'s military service in the United States Navy. Also included are manuscripts and presentations written by members of the DuBose family as well as many collected from others about the Civil War.These papers document the DuBose family's interest in the Civil War. There is...
Dates:
1782-2001, undated
James L. Bell papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS848f
Scope and Content
This collection documents the life of James L. Bell and Bell family genealogy. Included are letters to Bell from William J. Hilburn, a fellow soldier; Captain Charles K. Maddox, under whom both Bell and Hilburn served during their military service; Walter A. Wiley; and A. T. Spalding, a pastor at Second Baptist Church in Atlanta. There is also research on the Bell family, gathered by James L. Bell’s great-granddaughter Edith H. Cook, that traces the family back to the 18th century. Cook also...
Dates:
1876-1983, undated
Myra Sheetz Harper letter
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS404f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a typescript and transcription of a letter written to Myra Sheetz Harper from Marion M. Hite, secretary to General Robert E. Lee, from headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, Chaffins Bluff on the James River, on October 2, 1864.
Dates:
1864
Samuel L. Roe family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS715f
Scope and Content
This collection consists primarily of letters written by Samuel L. Roe and C.W.G. Roe while the brothers were serving in Company H, 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the United States Civil War. The letters describe troop movements; weather conditions; rations; the lack of adequate shoes, clothing, and pay; and other details regarding living and battle conditions during the war. Of particular interest are comments in the letters about taking "Yankee" prisoners, religious...
Dates:
1841-1875, undated
Filtered By
- Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 3
- Atlanta Campaign, 1864 2
- Georgia -- Genealogy 2
- Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 2
- Account books -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- American diaries 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States 1
- Atlanta (Ga.) -- History 1
- Awards -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Bounty hunters -- Georgia 1
- Business records -- Georgia 1
- Capital stock -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Cemeteries -- Georgia -- Marietta 1
- Chattahoochee River 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Cycloramas -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Exhibitions -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Firearms -- Confederate States of America 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- Historic preservation -- Georgia 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Legal instruments -- Georgia 1
- Military pensions -- United States 1
- Military uniforms 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Periodicals 1
- Pickett's Mill Battlefield Historic Site (Ga.) 1
- Quartermasters -- Confederate States of America. 1
- Quartermasters -- United States 1
- Railroad conductors -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sheet music 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
- Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century 1
- Slaves -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
- Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Equipment and supplies 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Health aspects 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers 1
- Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Centennial celebrations, etc. 1
- War memorials -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Widows -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American 1 + ∧ less
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