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Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Dortch Longstreet papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS136
Scope and Contents The Helen Dortch Longstreet papers include biographical materials, correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, newsclippings, and subject files, primarily documenting Longstreet's attempts to exonerate her husband from blame for the Confederacy's loss at the Battle of Gettysburg. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, including Sears Wilson Cabell, who served as treasurer of the Longstreet Memorial Association; her stepdaughter Lula Whelchel; Jessie P. Rothrock, North Carolina state chair...
Dates: 1904-1963

Henri (Henrietta Irene) Horrell poems

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS952f
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two poems written by Henri Horrell about the Civil War. There is a typed and a hand written copy of "Grand-Pa's Story," which is about the Battle of Chancellorsville. In addition, there is a typed copy of "Who'll Know the Blue from the Gray," as well as a copy of the periodical Blue and Gray: the Patriotic American magazine from February 1884, in which Horrell published her poem.

Dates: 1867-1894, undated

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

James L. Day Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot research materials

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1279
Scope and Contents

This collection contains research materials pertaining to the Confederate States of America Quartermaster Department, Atlanta Depot records. Included are biographical and contextual descriptions written by Day in the early 2000s about civilian contractors and Confederate officer and enlisted personnel mentioned within those records. There are also copies of webpages about these individuals and their assigned military units.

Dates: 2003-2004, undated

John Keely Civil War letter and scrapbook

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Collection number: ahc.MSS196f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from Captain John Keely to John Ryan of Atlanta about the health of Captain Keely and news of friends. The collection also contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles about Keely and a diary he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865, 1881-1931, undated

John Pattillo visual arts materials

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Collection number: ahc.VIS463
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs collected by John Patillo of Atlanta buildings and street scenes, schools, churches, residences, and portraits. Buildings and residences include Atlanta City Hall, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, First National Bank, Georgia State Captiol, the Carnegie Library, as well as residences in the Peachtree Park neighborhood. Also in the collection are images of churches such as St. Marks Methodist Episcopal Church and the Cathedral of St. Philip; and...
Dates: approximately 1852-1970, undated

Joshua M. Mitchell collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS240f
Scope and Content

This collection contains photocopies of Civil War documents of Joshua M. Mitchell, including furlough papers; list of persons at Johnson's Island prison in Ohio, requisition papers, service records, appointment papers; a marriage contract of Joshua Mitchell and V. T. Rundle; poems, death notices of Thomas H. Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell; list of children of Thomas and Ruth Mitchell; and letters from the Department of Confederate Pension and Records.

Dates: 1861-1867, 1957, 1960

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

J.W. Speir Civil War letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS332f
Scope and Content

This collection contains transcriptions of letters from Confederate soldier J.W. Speir to his wife. He writes about camp conditions, fighting around Atlanta, hospital conditions, and their children.

Dates: 1864

Lavender Robinson Ray papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS788f
Scope and Content This collection consists of records from Ray's military, legal, and political career. Materials include telegrams articulating his posts and duties as a Confederate soldier, and later his activities with veteran affairs. Of particular interest is a telegram sent to President Franklin Roosevelt in gratitude for funding the erection of Confederate tombstones for prisoners of war. In addition, Ray collected southeastern railroad passes, railroad advertisements, and letters regarding the...
Dates: 1866-1939, undated

Leonard H. Eicholtz Civil War letter

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Collection number: ahc.MSS101f
Scope and Content This collection contains a letter sent from Leonard H. Eicholtz to Washington Townsend. Eicholtz discusses his change in base from Saint Mary's to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and explains that he is "engaged in the Construction Corps, rebuilding bridges and track in the rear of Sherman's Army." He discusses his work rebuilding a 600 foot long and seventy-five foot high bridge in six days. Eicholtz notes that Sherman has Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston on the run and predicts that the...
Dates: 1864 June 27

Leonidas William Mackey letter

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS215f
Scope and Content This collection contains a photocopy of a letter from Leonidas William Mackey, a 1st Lieutenant in the 51st/52nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment in the Army of Tennessee, from Atlanta, Georgia, to unidentified individuals. Mackey writes that there is severe fighting on the front lines in front of Hood's and Hardee's Corps. He mentions they have lost a great many in wounded and that their army is a few miles north of the Chattahoochee river. He also lists names of acquiantances killed or...
Dates: 1864 July 5

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

Lucy Cunyas Mulcahy correspondence

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS245f
Scope and Content

This collection contains letters written to Lucy Cunyas Mulcahy of Atlanta from historian Wilbur Kurtz, Jr. Mr. Kurtz writes to her about visiting Civil War sites in Georgia and documenting his work on the subject.

Dates: 1939-1958

Lucy Stockard photographs

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Collection number: ahc.VIS446
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs of Lucy Stockard and her activities with the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard of Atlanta, a veterans organization. There are also several photos of Ponce de Leon Park (also known as Spiller Field) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Confederate Soldiers' Home, also known as the Confederate Veterans' Home. Many of the photographs include additional information on the backside of the photos, and several were taken by Atlanta...
Dates: approximately 1910-1950, undated

Madison Bell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1098
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, booklets, and newspapers, the majority of which were collected by, or pertain to, the life and work of Madison Bell. The correspondence spans Bell's adult life; most are addressed from family and friends. Documents relate to his family and his career. The booklets pertain to Georgia law, Bell himself, and Georgia's secession from the Union. Items of particular note are a muster roll from the 30th Georgia Cavalry Battalion, posters advertising...
Dates: 1844-1896, 1945-1951, 1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1853 - 1896

Martha Calhoun school essay

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS48f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a composition paper written by Martha Calhoun titled "The Importance of Georgia to the Confederacy During the Civil War."

Dates: 1979 February 26

McClatchey family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS222f
Scope and Content

This collection contains copies of correspondence and a journal written during the Civil War. There are ten letters written to and about John George McClatchey; a memorial poem written by Minerva McClatchey after the death of her son John who was a private in Company I, 7th Georgia Cavalry. He was wounded at the Battle of Trevillian Station, and died at a hospital in Gordonsville, Virginia.

Dates: 1861-1866

McMillan and Bellingrath family documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS235f
Scope and Content This collection contains typed transcriptions of letters, certificates and other documents belonging to members of the McMillan and Bellingrath families of Georgia. Included is a letter from Malcolm McMillan describing his experiences as a prisoner-of-war; three letters from Ferdinand Dallas McMillan about his service in Company B. of the 7th Georgia Regiment; a letter written by Miss Lou Lanneau describing a trip to Atlanta prior to its siege in 1864; a 1931 letter describing war-time...
Dates: 1860-1931

Mrs. Robert C. Cooper scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS271
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of one scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning Confederate Army heroes and personalities from Atlanta newspapers. Also included are clippings of articles pertaining to Southern Confederate Memorial Day, the Confederacy, and religious topics of the period.

Dates: about 1920