This collection contains correspondence, memoirs, military records, diaries, and newspaper clippings relating to the Crumley and Berry families of Atlanta, Georgia. Correspondence from William Greg Crumley to his parents includes letters, telegrams and postcards written while he was stationed in France, England and Belgium during World War I. He described personal illnesses, travels during leave, and the duties of a medical officer. He noted how to care for soldiers who had been exposed to poisonous Bromine gas and for soldiers that had “trench foot”. He repeatedly discussed the censorship and delay in delivery of his correspondence. In his letters to his brother Robert Macon, he confided that he exaggerated his safety to his mother and gave a much happier description of the war than the “true Hell” he believed it to be. These letters were transcribed by a member of the Crumley family shortly after they were received. Documents pertaining to W.G. Crumley’s military service are also included. Also from the Crumley family is a scrapbook of Zulette Crumley dated 1896-1899; an account book of William Macon Crumley dated 1884-1887; a story by William Monroe Crumley about the faith and death of an unnamed Confederate soldier; and William Macon Crumley’s reminiscences of the Civil War.

Material from the Berry family includes correspondence of John Berry during the Civil War; and a typed transcription of Carrie M. Berry’s Civil War diary which describes home life in Atlanta, Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign. She wrote about living with Union soldiers and the burning of most of the city.

A final document is a speech was made by Leila C. Pullen to the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1902 detailing the actions of “Confederate Girl Soldiers” in Georgia who formed their own regiment—The Nancy Harts.