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A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

 Collection
Identifier: W-0083
Abstract

Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.

Dates: 1929

Albert Shaw Collection of Martha Berry Schools Material

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4229
Abstract This collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, and magazines relating to Martha Berry and her schools in Mount Berry, Georgia, from 1921-1947. Martha Berry (1865-1942) established The Berry Schools in the late 1890s to provide education to academically able but economically poor children near Rome, Georgia, located in Southern Appalachia. Board of Trustees member and friend of Martha Berry, Albert Shaw--an early-twentieth- century journalist and scholar, best known for his work as...
Dates: 1921 - 1947

Benjamin Rice Holt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0159
Abstract

Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.

Dates: 1860 - 1939

Berry Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4239
Abstract

The Berrys were a plantation- and slave-owning family from Coweta County, Georgia. This collection contains correspondence and other materials related to several Berry family members, particularly Judge Andrew J. Berry (1798-1883) and his sons William, Thomas, and Joel Berry. Materials document the family’s economic situation both before and after the US Civil War (1861-1865).

Dates: 1820 - 1882

C. L. Boynton maps

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0197
Abstract

Printed maps of Georgia with additions showing routes taken for "botanical tours."

Dates: 1895-1902

Bozeman and Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5090
Scope and Contents This collection contains sixty letters and documents, written to and among the Bozeman and Lewis families. Many were sent from Georgia, particularly Jefferson and Charlton County, and cities such as Grooverville, Dawson, and Thomasville. Other letters come from Liberty County and Monticello, Florida. Included in the collection is a single letter by John Bozeman, which is addressed to his wife, Sarah Blanche Lewis Bozeman. Although it is dated January 25, 1866, the letter was...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1856 - 1876

Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4339
Scope and Contents This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals. The ledgers...
Dates: 1862-04 - 1865-04

Charles Summersell Photographs, Negatives, and Transparencies

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-025
Abstract Photographs, majority are iconographic, filmstrips, slides, audio cassettes, hand-written notebooks, microfilms and negatives, bulk dates: 1860-mid 1900s. A procedure is now underway of accessing and housing the ‘photographic’ collection. Photographs originally stored in 22 cartons and one Hollinger boxes; other items include 7 cartons of Alabama filmstrips, 5 Hollinger boxes containing filmstrips and audio tapes relating to history of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, California, Ohio and...
Dates: 1860 - 1900

Confederate Impressment Circular

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4903
Scope and Contents This collection contains a broadside circular that features General Order No. 32 and other documents related to Confederate impressment. Issued in Richmond, Virginia, on March 11, 1864, the order calls for the compulsory service of free and enslaved Black men between the ages of eighteen and fifty, indicating that they are to serve as teamsters, fortification builders, hospital assistants, and munitions workers for the Confederate Army. It prioritizes the impressement of free Black men, who...
Dates: 1864

Confederate States Army, 2nd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, Muster and Pay Roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4943
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a muster and pay roll for Company E of the 2nd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters. A document of the Confederate States Army (CSA), it states the names of the unit's officers and soldiers from December 3, 1862, to February 28, 1863. It notes the pay and promotions of various men, their rank, and where and when they enlisted. Also included is information about absences connected to desertion, hospital stays, and notations of men who died or found substitutes.

Dates: 1862-12-03 - 1863-02-28

Correspondence on Boston Relief Mission to Savannah, Georgia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4269
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence and other documentation regarding a mission by citizens of Boston to send supplies to Savannah, Georgia, in January 1865, while the city was occupied by William Tecumseh Sherman and his Union troops during the US Civil War.

Dates: 1865

Early Educational Institutions in the South

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0466
Abstract

Tuition receipts, a printed announcement, and a clipping, from several schools, primarily in Alabama.

Dates: 1844-1879

Eliza Ann McCants Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4211
Abstract

The collection consists of two diaries kept by Eliza Ann McCants (1817-1844) in the antebellum South. Volume One contains 160 pages and covers the years 1840-1842. Volume Two contains 136 pages and covers the years 1843-1844.

Dates: 1840 - 1844

Frank Gallagher Circular Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4949
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single printed circular letter dated April 8, 1868, issued from Atlanta by Frank M. Gallagher on behalf of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The order addresses concerns about “assemblages of large numbers of colored persons, holding political discussions…guarded by numbers of armed men,” and requires that such meetings be held in the open and with prior notice given to authorities.Though nominally a measure to preserve public safety, the circular functionally...
Dates: 1863-04-08

Freedmen’s Bureau Circular Letter on Local Government Aid, Georgia

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4758
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a single circular letter issued by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Office of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, dated October 2, 1867. The letter, authored by F.D. Sewall, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, was originally written in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 1867, and directed to Bvt. Brig. Gen. C.C. Sibley. The document mandates local authorities in Georgia to provide aid to all impoverished individuals,...
Dates: 1867-10-02

Georgia Census 1850 and 1860

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0566
Abstract

Handwritten census records for counties in Georgia. Contains information on numbers of slaves, acres of improved and unimproved land, and value of farms. Summary information provided for some counties. Counties included (1850): Elbert, Franklin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Greene, Gordon, Hall, Harris, Heard, Henry, and Houston. Counties included (1860): Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, Gordon, Hall, Harrid, Heard, Houston, Lowndes, and Montgomery.

Dates: unknown

Townsend Heaton letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Abstract

Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1864

Reverend E. A. Henderson Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-019
Abstract

Collection consists of four photographs of Chickamauga Battlefield in Georgia and Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Dates: 1905

James D. Johnson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4791
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter signed by James D. Johnson, dated July 2, 1836, from Fort McCreary, Georgia, and addressed to Miss Eliza A. Daily in Columbus, Georgia. In the letter, Johnson reports on recent military movements and Creek activity following the Roanoke, Georgia massacre, during the period of heightened conflict known as the Second Creek War. Johnson relays intelligence received from nearby officers regarding Creek forces passing through southern Georgia en route to the...
Dates: 1836

Labor Contract Between a Georgia Grocer and a Freedwoman Named Easter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5101
Scope and Contents This single-page folio manuscript, dated March 10, 1866, documents a labor agreement between William Claud Perry, a grocer in Lumpkin County, Georgia, and Easter, a sixteen-year-old freedwoman. The contract outlines Easter’s employment terms, including board, clothing, and a wage of three dollars per month in exchange for domestic and farm labor. It was examined and approved by W.A. Burnside, Superintendent of the Freedmen’s Bureau for Lumpkin County. The verso is docketed “Easter’s...
Dates: 1866-03-10

E. O. McElroy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3758
Abstract

Ten U.S. postal service railroad mail service directories for several southeastern states: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; letters, postal rating exams, etc.

Dates: 1938-1948

Nathan Longfellow Letter to Elephas Weston

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5043
Scope and Contents This collection contains a lengthy letter from Nathan Longfellow, the director of a women's school in Scottsboro, Georgia, to his brother-in-law, Elephas Weston, in Bremen, Maine. Written in 1838, it depicts life in the South, comparing it to Longfellow's experiences in New England. Written on a 20.5 x 16 inch sheet of paper that is folded to form four pages, the letter includes Longfellow's opinions of individuals in the upper eschelons of Southern society, commenting specifically on the...
Dates: 1838-02-02

Nathaniel C. McLean Report on the Battle of Resaca

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5036
Scope and Contents This collection contains a draft report of the Battle of Resaca written in the hand of Union General Nathaniel C. McLean, with minor edits in pencil and ink. It was mailed to McLean's wife and served as the basis for his official report. McLean notes that he has only recently assumed command of his brigade, following with details about the march toward Resaca and the ensuing three-day battle. His report discusses artillery fire as well as his troops' defensive and offensive positions....
Dates: 1864-05-22

Our Georgia Family Issue

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4956
Scope and Contents This collection contains the October 1965 issue of Our Georgia Family, the official journal of the Georgia Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers (GCCPT). The journal states the objects and creed of the organization on the inside of its cover. Contents include a prayer, a message from president Blanche Baldwin, and a list of officers and past presidents. In addition to projects and news that might be of interest to GCCPT members, articles focus on...
Dates: 1965-10

Peter Brannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.

Dates: 1900-1966

L. W. Shepherd letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1263
Abstract

A letter dated 6 December 1863, from a camp near Dalton, Georgia, to S. D. Cabaniss, Huntsville attorney.

Dates: 1863 December 6

Southern Prisons of the U.S. Officers Lithograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-5030
Scope and Contents This collection contains a lithograph printed by Edward Sachse that features the views and conditions of several Confederate prison camps, which were used to hold Union officers during the U.S. Civil War. It consists of twelve hand-drawn illustrations of camps located in the South, including Andersonville and several lesser known camps, which were not as heavily documented. One of the lithograph's two central images is Camp Asylum in Columbia, South Carolina, which is depicted as...
Dates: 1865

Southern Trade and Diplomacy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4214
Abstract

The collection consists of one letter and two pamphlets related to trade and diplomacy in the antebellum South.

Dates: 1837 - 1860

George Stritikus papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1360
Abstract

This collection contains materials on floriculture in Alabama, including papers on roses and on old English boxwoods, a plant inventory of Fendall Hall, Eufaula, Alabama, and indexes of plants mentioned in books on Alabama and Georgia plantations and homes, plus photos, garden plans, and written descriptions from Stitikus's traveling exhibit, "Alabama : Her People, Houses and Gardens," (1986).

Dates: 1981-1986

The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4746
Scope and Contents This broadside, The Injustice of Poll Taxes Broadside, authored by Henry P. Farrow, is a passionate plea against the implementation of the poll tax in Georgia during the Reconstruction era. Written at a pivotal moment while the Georgia Reconstruction Constitutional Convention was in session, Farrow’s argument articulates the economic and moral injustices of such a tax, which disproportionately affected the poor of all races and ultimately served as a...
Dates: 1867

Paul Turner Vaughn diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1496
Abstract

Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection

 Collection — Box: 2009001.019
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract

This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.

Dates: 1909 - 1910

William Joseph Mims Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0992
Abstract

Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.

Dates: 1886 - 1924

Zadock Jackson to Alexander H. Stephens Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4737
Scope and Contents The letter from Zadock Jackson, dated September 4, 1843, to Alexander Stephens, discusses local political tensions in Palmyra, Georgia, particularly involving the Janes family. Jackson expresses frustration with the Janes, accusing them of attempting to dominate local politics, specifically in the race for Sheriff. He details a conversation with Bill Janes, who had accepted the position of Deputy Sheriff but expressed reluctance to run for Sheriff unless certain political conditions were...
Dates: 1843 September 9

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