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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
Cornelius Hanleiter Papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS109
Scope and Content
The collection includes five bound volumes of Cornelius Hanleiter’s war diary from 1861 – 1865, along with correspondence, including a letter from Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens. The collection also contains sketches of Hanleiter’s outpost in Savannah, and other documents relating to his service in the Army of the Confederacy. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to the careers of C.R. Hanleiter, Lemuel P. Grant, Colonel Tom Harvard, Anton L. Kontz, and Jonathan...
Dates:
1825-1944, undated, (bulk 1861-1865)
James E. Williams papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS329
Scope and Content
This collection documents Williams family members and their businesses, including letters, bills, and receipts. There are three bound books: a checkbook from 1854, Williams company account book from 1859, and a scrapbook from 1904-1905. There are also several Confederate bond receipts and checks, letters from the field, a parole, monthly subsistence papers, a land indenture, and a broadside of a speach James's WIlliams gave in Atlanta. Other items include a fire insurance policy dated...
Dates:
1820-1905, undated
Junius Hillyer memoirs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS156f
Scope and Content
This collection contains the memoirs of Junius Hillyer, a political leader and judge. In his memoirs titled Memoirs of the Early Life and Times of Judge Junius Hillyer he describes his family genealogy; his boyhood and schooling, including his years at the University of Georgia, and growing up in Georgia. He also records his opinions on slavery. He believed that slavery "is the normal condition of the negro race." He talks about the customs of his times and the...
Dates:
1937
Lochrane and Reid family papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1203
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Reid and Lochrane families, as well as the associated families Grant and Rudolph. The bulk of papers is correspondence, primarily from Sallie Fannie Reid. Other items include legal material from Osborne Augustus Lochrane such as speeches, legal decisions, telegraphs, and a funeral announcement; a valedictory speech, calling cards, calendars, receipts, and poetry from the Lochrane family; and receipts and Confederate Army military passes from the Reid family. In...
Dates:
1833-1977, undated; Majority of material found within 1856-1872
W. C. Sims slave receipt
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS260f
Scope and Content
This collection contains two photo copies of a receipt for the "loan" of an enslaved man named George, belonging to W. C. Sims of Troup County, Georgia, to the Confederate States for military defense in the vicinity of Troup County. The receipt is dated July 2, 1864.
Dates:
1864
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- Andervount, Jacob 1
- Atlanta Public Library. Ida Williams Branch 1
- Baptist Banner (Newspaper) 1
- Brandon, H. L. 1
- Cobb, Howell 1
- Collins, Ellis 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 38th. Company C 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 14th 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Volunteers, 63rd 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. Sharpshooter Battalion, 4th 1
- Connors, Lillian Lochrane, 1873-1964 1
- Copeland, Stephan W. 1
- Cox, John C. 1
- Davis, Larkin 1
- Frank, Leo, 1884-1915 1
- Georgia. Militia 1
- Githins, Will H. 1
- Grant family 1
- Grant, Lemuel Pratt 1
- Grant, Lillian Lochrane, 1928-1988 1
- Grant, Sallie Fannie (Sarah Frances Reid), 1839-1920 1
- Grant, William Daniel, 1837-1901 1
- Hanleiter family 1
- Hanleiter, Cornelius Redding 1
- Harris, Volney S. 1
- Hillyer, Junius 1
- Horsley, William 1
- Johns, Ephram H. 1
- Jones, E. W. 1
- Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
- Leyden, Austin 1
- Linscott, Harry 1
- Lochrane family 1
- Lochrane, Osborne A. (Osborne Augustus), 1829-1887 1
- Lockman, John 1
- McCall, E. H. 1
- McCay, C. F. (Charles Francis) 1
- McKay, Philip 1
- Mercer, John J. 1
- Mitchell, William A. 1
- Morgan, John Hunt 1
- Morlan, J. A. 1
- Rawson, E. E. 1
- Reid family 1
- Reid, William, 1810-1873 1
- Richards, Samuel P. 1
- Rogers, J. H. 1
- Rogers, William H. H. 1
- Rudolph family 1
- Scarborough, Drury P. 1
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
- Sims, W. C. 1
- Soldiers friend (Newspaper) 1
- Southern Railway (U.S.) 1
- Spring Street Elementary School (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
- Stanley, Henry S. 1
- Terry, Carlisle 1
- Thib, S. C. 1
- Thomas, Charles W. 1
- United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 20th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 107th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 42nd (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 78th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Infantry. Ohio Regiment, 80th 1
- United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865) 1
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 119th (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 136th (1862-1865) 1
- Vickers, L. E. 1
- Ward, William S. 1
- White, Cynthia 1
- White, J. R. 1
- Williams family 1
- Williams, James Etheldred 1
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1
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