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Tag Archives: Atlanta
12 September 1864: “A whole population driven from their homes”
Item Description: Letter from Charles Olmstead to his wife dated Sept. 12, 1864 regarding the battle of Atlanta. Olmstead was a confederate army officer in the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment. Item Citation: Item Citation: From Folder 5, in the Charles … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Battle of Atlanta, Charles Olmstead, Civil War, General Hardee, refugees
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10th September 1864: “His loss to the ‘Confederacy’ at this time, is a public calamity.”
Item Description: Two letters received by Mattie Ready on the same sheet of paper after her husband’s death. Her husband, named John Hunt Morgan, was a cavalry raider and brigadier general. Her family describes the fall of Atlanta and conditions in Georgia. … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Civil War, Confederacy, Georgia, John Hunt Morgan, T. W. Fleming
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20 August 1864: “it is also rumored that a raiding party is in our rear composed of 6000 Yanks.”
Item Description: Letter from J. I. Jacocks to his brother. He writes that he fought in the battle on July 22nd and that his company lost 4 men but took many prisoners. He also states that it is rumored that … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Battle of Atlanta, Georgia, Jonathan Jacocks Papers
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19 August 1864: “I do not see how Sherman is ever to force us out of Atlanta”
Item Description: Letter dated 19 August 1864 from William Dudley Gale to his wife. He joined the Confederate Army as a staff officer for his father in law, General Leonidas Polk, in the fall of 1862. After the general’s death … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander P. Stewart, Atlanta, Atlanta (Ga.), Gen. William T. Sherman, General Stewart, General William T. Sherman, William Dudley Gale
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16 June 1864: “This is only about twenty miles from Atlanta, while it is rumored that Hooker has crossed the river to our right, and is probably trying to get between them and Atlanta with a large force.”
Item description: Letter, dated 16 June 1864, from Robert Stuart Finley to his fiancee, Mary A. Cabeen. Finley was a member of the 30th Illinois Infantry, serving in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia. [Item transcription available below images.] Item … Continue reading
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Tagged 30th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Acworth, Atlanta, Gen. William T. Sherman, Georgia, Mary A. Cabeen, Robert Stuart Finley
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18 January 1863: “I made twelve garments last week and worked sixty-two button holes and sewed on as many buttons. Can you equal that?”
Item description: Letter, 18 January 1863, from Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C., to her sister, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga. Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Maney, Atlanta, Bettie Kimberly, Chapel Hill, children, Georgia, home front, Kimberly family, North Carolina, women
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19 July 1862: “Any Cotton Among us Belonging to Traitors!”
Item description: Newspaper article, “Any Cotton Among us Belonging to Traitors!,” as re-published in the 19 July 1862 issue of the Wilmington Daily Journal. The article was originally published in the Atlanta Confederacy newspaper. Item citation: “Any Cotton Among us … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Atlanta Confederacy, cotton, Georgia, newspapers, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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