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Thomas Deaton papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS951f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Thomas Deaton's financial, legal, and personal papers, the bulk of which pertain to the Civil War. Financial records include deeds of purchase for land and enslaved persons, as well as affidavits of sales. Also included is a diary he wrote while working at a Confederate hospital in which he recorded personal notes, information about meetings, records of the weather, and copied obituaries. Correspondence documents Deaton’s sale of grain to the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1838-1873, undated
Underwood, Key families papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS213
Scope and Content
This collection contains correspondence, envelopes and financial and legal documents belonging primarily to members of the Underwood family of Franklin County, and later Lithonia, Georgia. Most of the correspondence was written by William and Alvin Underwood to their parents and siblings when the pair served in the Confederate Army from 1861-1864. William sent correspondence to his family telling of his unit’s fitness and preparation, his optimism about a short war, his difficulties in...
Dates:
1827-1951 (bulk 1861-1864)
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- Farming -- Georgia 1
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- Franklin County (Ga.) -- History 1
- Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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- Invoices -- Georgia -- Lithonia 1
- Justices of the peace -- Georgia -- Fulton County 1
- Paulding County -- History 1
- Peninsular Campaign, 1862 1
- Promissory notes -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
- Promissory notes -- Georgia -- DeKalb County 1
- Slave bills of sale -- Georgia 1
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Amherst County 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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- Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion 1
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- Deaton, Thomas, 1797-1874 1
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