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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Berry family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1024
Scope and Content This collection contains articles, certificates, correspondence, deeds, a ledger, military records, and school assignments. The majority of the records consist of deeds dated 1832-1887 of properties purchased by John Marshall Berry in Rome, Georgia. Included are deeds for one half of a commercial lot bought by Charles H. Smith, former mayor of Rome, Georgia, and one for 22 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. There is a merchant ledger dated 1864-1869 perhaps belonging to John Marshall Berry...
Dates: 1832-1965, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Berry family papers

Captain James Robert McMichael Civil War diary and letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS234f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a typed transcription of a diary of Captain James Robert McMichael written while a prisoner-of-war. The collection also contains typed transcriptions of letters received while in prison at Fort Delaware, names of units of fellow prisoners, and their signatures, a poem by Captain Jas. R. McCallum of Knoxville, Tennessee; and a tally of Confederate officers sent from Fort Delaware on board the USS Crescent to Morris Island.

Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Captain James Robert McMichael Civil War diary and letters

Charles Leaman papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS985f
Scope and Contents This collection contains typewritten transcripts of approximately one hundred letters written by Leaman between 1862 and 1865. The bulk of the letters are to family members about daily life in the United States Marine Corps during the American Civil War. Of particular note are details he gives about Confederate prisoners, ironclad warfare, and the Union’s failed attempt to retake Fort Sumter in 1863. He shares his impressions of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren and the close encounters he had...
Dates: 1997, approximately 2000, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Charles Leaman papers

Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1274
Scope and Contents The bulk of the records are requisitions for clothing, accoutrements, forage, and other quartermaster supplies sent to the Army of Tennessee before, during, and after the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. Also included are payment records for military officers and purchases of services and provisions from civilian contractors in Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Richmond, Virginia. Most of the records were approved and signed by Quartermaster Henry Thomas Massengale...
Dates: 1859-1865, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records

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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / DuBose family collection

E. R. Perry Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS267f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a photo copy of a letter written by Union soldier E. R. Perry to his aunt in New Hope, Pennsylvania, on November 23, 1863 from Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The letter mentions captured officers from the "rebel ram Atlanta", now prisoners of war.

Dates: 1863
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / E. R. Perry Civil War letter

Hosea Garrett, Jr. civil war letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS119f
Scope and Content This collection contains two transcribed letters. The first letter of the collection was written by Hosea Garrett, Jr. to his uncle, Reverend Hosea Garrett, on August 1, 1864. This letter provides a detailed account of the Atlanta Campaign, and the fighting that occurred on July 27, 1864. In his account, Garrett notes that not only were Confederate troops far outnumbered, but General Walker was also killed early in the battle, making the troops disorganized and ineffective. Due to their lack...
Dates: 1864
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Hosea Garrett, Jr. civil war letters

John Craig Evans civil war letters

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Collection number: ahc.MSS105f
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains transcripts of letters written by John Craig Evans to his wife, Annie, from December 1864- June 1865. Most of the letters were written in Petersburg, Virginia and consist of questions about his children, family, and home life. Evans letters also note an increasing amount of desertions as troop conditions become harsher, and mention his involvement in the Battle of Hatchers Run and the Battle of Fort Stedman. On April 1, 1865 John Craig Evans was captured at the...
Dates: 1864-1865
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / John Craig Evans civil war letters

John S. T. Hall papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS778f
Scope and Content

This collection contains military records, genealogies, and photocopies of family records written inside a bible. Of particular interest is Hall's diary (1863-1865), which contains financial records, notes, and a copy of a letter from his future wife. Also included are copies of John S. T. Hall's records in a Confederate Roll of Prisoners of War, and a copy of Hall's appointment as a notary public in 1875.

Dates: 1863-2003, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / John S. T. Hall papers

Joshua Gilbert papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS776f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a letter from Joshua Gilbert to his family, a description of United States Army prisoner of war camps in the Civil War, one deed to a cemetery plot, and one clipping from the Atlanta Constitution with Gilbert's obituary.

Dates: 1855-1889
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Joshua Gilbert papers

Nathaniel Wiley Harbin Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS136f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a letter written by Nathaniel Wiley Harbin to his father about the First Battle of Manassas (Bull RUn). Harbin gives an account of the battle, where he acted as a "skirmisher," and describes the rout of the Federal army and the supplies they abandoned during their retreat. Harbin includes a casualty list for his company and writes about the capture of Federal prisoners.

Dates: 1861 July 30
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Nathaniel Wiley Harbin Civil War letter

Reverend John Wesley Stipe Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS685f
Scope and Content This collection consists of genealogical information about John Wesley Stipe as well as typewritten and handwritten memoirs of his childhood, the days of his first marriage, Civil War service, and career as a Methodist Episcopal circuit pastor. His typewritten memoirs describe life in rural antebellum Georgia including such activities as justice courts, log rolling, and corn shucking. Of particular interest are two handwritten journal entries, written in the style of a newspaper series,...
Dates: 1864-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1961
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Reverend John Wesley Stipe Papers

Roderick Perry papers

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Collection number: ahc.mss806
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters written by Roderick Perry and his family and friends of Warsaw, Kentucky. Also included are letters to soldiers requesting help from Kate Perry, Perry's adjutant handbook, and business cards of merchants supplying goods to prisioners of war.

Dates: 1841 - 1926
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Roderick Perry papers

Samuel L. Roe family papers

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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
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Samuel L. Roe family papers

William Albert Crouse papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS609f
Scope and Content This collection contains a transcription of a diary kept by William Albert Crouse from May to August of 1864. It also contains a letter dated January 22, 1865, from Augustus H. McFarland to William’s wife Margaret Crouse. The diary contains daily records of the weather, personal health, meals and general conditions inside Andersonville Prison. According to Crouse the prisoners’ rations generally consisted of cornbread or corn flakes most days, but were occasionally supplemented by bacon or...
Dates: 1864
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / William Albert Crouse papers