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Lin family correspondence

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Collection number: ahc.MSS849
Scope and Content This collection consists of seventy-two letters written among the various members of the Lin family of Atlanta and their extended relatives during the Civil War. Many of the letters are to Charles B. "Bud" Lin from his mother, Amanda M. Lin, and his three sisters: Mary Ann, Susan B., and Georgia, while he was attending the Georgia Military Institute. Common topics of the letters include the latest news of different relatives serving as soldiers, the hiring of substitutes, conscription of...
Dates: 1859-1887

Lollie Belle Wylie ephemera

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Collection number: ahc.MSS387f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a manuscript titled "Author's Grove" an account of author, Lollie Belle Wylie's, part in establishing the grove in Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, Georgia; newspaper clippings of a series called "Sketches of Pioneer Women", by Mrs. Wylie; sheet music; and letters.

Dates: 1887-1944

Lorena Pace Pruitt collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS493
Scope and Content

This collection contains Confederate Soldiers Home administrative materials, a few personal papers, and a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains materials pertaining to the Confederate Soldiers Home and the Georgia State Patrol. Personal papers include a copy of the Civil War record of Mrs. Pruitt's grandfather, Green B. Bentley.

Dates: 1932-1982, undated

Lovick P. Thomas papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS700f
Scope and Content

These papers consist of letters, pamphlets and newspaper clippings containing information about Confederate veterans and Confederate Memorial Day. In addition are two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings consisting of stories about the Atlanta Campaign, the Civil War, and Reconstruction which includes letters to the editor and stories written by veterans of the Atlanta Campaign, as well as contributions from other authors.

Dates: 1901-1912, undated

Luckie family photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS20
Scope and Content

This collection documents four generations of the Luckie family, very early members of Atlanta's free African American community.

Dates: 1860-1940, undated

Luther Nin Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS662f
Scope and Content This collection contains one letter and its transcription. The letter is dated September 13, 1864, and was written from East Point, Georgia, to Luther Nin’s “Little Couz.” This letter contains a detailed account of life in the Federal Army during the Atlanta Campaign from August 25 - 31, 1864. Luther Nin describes his company’s job to cover the retreat of several regiments from skirmish lines on August 25, 1864. He notes that from August 26 -30, 1864, he was continually marching or on picket...
Dates: 1864 September 13

Mangum family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS217f
Scope and Content This collection consists of military records from the career of Dr. William L. Mangum as well as other family papers. Documents include military orders for Mangum to raise a cavalry company from wounded Confederate soldiers; personal letters; Confederate military passes; account pages, tax, and other receipts; and birth, marriage, and death certificates. The collection also includes weaving draft patterns from "Lizzie," possibly Mangum's sister Elizabeth, which were translated in the 1990s...
Dates: 1825-1991, undated

Manry-Pittman family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS450
Scope and Content

This collection contains materials pertaining to the Manry and Pittman families. Documents include deeds and correspondence as well as genealogy papers. There are newspaper clippings, vital record documents, and military records. Of particular interest are the Civil War papers of James Manry that include his discharge and furlough papers.

Dates: 1864-1950, undated

Marcus J. Wright papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS415f
Scope and Content

This collection contains typed transcriptions of 36 official letters and orders written by Brigadier General Marcus J. Wright with the Army of Tennessee, headquartered in northwest Georgia, and then Atlanta. The collection also contains newspaper clippings regarding General Wrights' uniform.

Dates: 1862-1942

Margaret Clarke papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS69
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents pertaining to the Civil War, Confederate veterans, and the general history of Atlanta. Included is an 1864 edition of the Atlanta Intelligencer and an issue of Confederate Veteran.

Dates: 1864-1908

Margaret Mitchell Collection

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Collection number: ahc.MSS146
Scope and Content The Margaret Mitchell collection is comprised of material pertaining to the life of Atlanta author Margaret Mitchell, including correspondence, newspaper articles, and other printed materials. The correspondence – originals and copies of cards, letters, postcards, notes, and telegrams – provides detail into Mitchell’s professional relationships with fans and publishers, as well as her involvement with the Atlanta Historical Society. The Baugh (secretary to Stephens Mitchell, brother and...
Dates: 1863-1971

Margaret Mitchell House Archives

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Collection number: ahc.MSS978
Scope and Content

The Margaret Mitchell House Archives contains, correspondence, publications, and manuscript material pertaining to Margaret Mitchell, her family, and her publisher, Harold S. Latham; the publication of Gone With the Wind and the movie premiere in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1848-2002, undated

Mark Anthony Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS658f
Scope and Content This collection contains a letter from Mark Anthony to Miss Lizzie Coleman and its transcription with a reply from Coleman. The letter was written from Kingston, Georgia, and is dated May 22, 1864. Mark Anthony writes to Miss Lizzie Coleman. In this letter he recalls the anniversary of the 2nd assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi. Mark writes briefly of his regiment’s involvement in the Battle of Resaca only mentioning their loss of men to death and injury. He outlines his orders to march to...
Dates: 1864 May 22

Marquis DeLafayette Pittman Civil War letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS721f
Scope and Content This collection consists of eight letters written by Marquis DeLafayette Pittman, signing himself as "Marc", between April and July of 1864. Most are addressed to "Lizzie" and all appear to be written to this same individual. In the letters Pittman describes the weather, visiting with his cousins, his concerns about the progress of the war, and his feelings for "Lizzie." In an apparent response to a letter he received from her urging him to return home in case the "Yanks get near" her, he...
Dates: 2 April 1864-11 July 1864

Mary Virginia Brown Connally papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS44
Scope and Content This collection contains papers of the Connally family, including legal documents such as the last will and testament of Thomas W. Connally; a mortgage deed for a home in Oakland City, an Atlanta neighborhood; records of property sales; tax receipts; an estate inventory; grocery receipts; correspondence; and a document issued by War Department of the Confederate States of America appointing Elijah L. Connally as Assistant Surgeon. Other records include newspaper clippings and travel...
Dates: 1822-1945, undated

Maud Morrow Brown Civil War manuscript and letter from Margaret Mitchell

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Collection number: ahc.MSS172f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a typed copy of the diary of William Decatur Howell, a Confederate soldier of Oxford, Mississippi who served in Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign. The diary also contains a short biography of Howell. The manuscript was compiled by Howell's aunt, Maud Morrow Brown in 1931. The collection also contains a letter from author Margaret Mitchell to Ms. Brown regarding the manuscript.

Dates: 1931, 1941

Mildred Lewis Lawton scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS290
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a single scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to events of the Civil War and other events.

Dates: 1862-1865, undated

Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox scrapbooks

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Collection number: ahc.MSS340
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of seven scrapbooks assembled by Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox. Included in the scrapbooks are newspaper clippings on the Daughters of the American Revolution, Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and programs, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1870-1930, undated

Myra Sheetz Harper letter

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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

Myrta Lockett Avary papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS20
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, memorabilia, news clippings, poetry, and writings of author Myrta Avary Lockett.

Dates: 1857-1946, undated

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 12
Lee, Robert E., (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 10
Atlanta Cyclorama (Atlanta, Ga.) 8
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891 8
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 8
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Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 5
Confederate States of America. Army 5
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 5
Georgia. Militia 5
Kurtz, Wilbur G. (Wilbur George), 1882-1967 5
United Daughters of the Confederacy 5
Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia 4
Gable, Clark, 1901-1960 4
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 4
Junior League of Atlanta 4
Leigh, Vivien 4
Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum. 3
Atlanta Historical Society 3
Civil War Round Table, Atlanta 3
Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion 3
Confederate States of America. Navy 3
Daughters of the American Revolution 3
De Havilland, Olivia 3
DuBose, Beverly M., 1918-1986 3
Fuller family 3
Fuller, William Allen 3
Grant, Lemuel Pratt 3
Hood, John Bell 3
Kurtz, Annie Laurie Fuller, 1884-1946 3
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 3
Western and Atlantic Railroad Company 3
Atlanta (Ga.). Department of Parks and Recreation 2
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company 2
Avary, Myrta Lockett 2
Bomar family 2
Bomar, Benjamin F. 2
Bomar, Thomas 2
Brown family 2
Calhoun, James Montgomery 2
Carnegie, Andrew 2
Cobb family 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 6th 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 7th 2
Daniel, George Hewitt 2
Davidson family 2
DeGress, Francis, 1840-1883 2
DuBose Family 2
DuBose, Beverly Means, 1886-1953 2
DuBose, Duffie (Frances Henley Woodruff), 1919-2015 2
Dubose, Beverly Means 2
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 2
Grant family 2
Hall family 2
Hampton, Wade 2
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 2
Howell, Evan P. (Evan Park) 2
Jackson, Stonewall 2
Johnston, Albert Sidney 2
Jones family 2
Kerksis, Sydney C. 2
Killian family 2
Kurtz, Wilbur, 1912-1991 2
Ladies' Memorial Association 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Loew's Grand Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Lombard, Carole 2
Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 2
Marsh, John R. (John Robert) 2
Morgan, John Hunt 2
Pomeroy, Charles R., Jr. 2
Richards, Samuel P. 2
Selznick, David O. 2
Smith family 2
Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization) 2
Spalding, Mary Connally, 1877-1953 2
Stanley, Henry S. 2
United States. Army 2
United States. Army of the Cumberland 2
United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865) 2
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1861-1865) 2
United States. Navy. 2
Wren's Nest (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Aircraft Warning Service (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Akin, Warren, 1811-1877 1
Alexander, Cecil A., 1918-2013 1
Alexander, Rebecca Ella Solomons, 1854-1938 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Dwight S., 1843-1908 1
American Red Cross 1
Anderson, Zachery T. 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Andervount, Jacob 1
Andrews, Charles H. (Charles Haynes), 1835-1905 1
Andrews, Lewis H. 1
Anthony, Mark 1
Ard, Joseph U. 1
Armestead, Walter S. 1
Armstrong, Adolphus 1
Ashley, John T. 1
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