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This collection consists of the note/account book of A. Illges which he kept during the Civil War and afterwards, 5 receipts from European travels after the War, and a bill or sale for some cotton bales.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Due to the size of this collection, a temporary finding aid can be found here This spreadsheet inventory is searchable using "Control F" function. Since this collection is arranged broadly, you may need to use multiple search terms to capture what you are interested in. For example: a high school sports event could be found under the school's name or...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Due to the size of this collection, a temporary finding aid can be found here This spreadsheet inventory is searchable using "Control F" function. Since this collection is arranged broadly, you may need to use multiple search terms to capture what you are interested in. For example: a high school sports event could be found under the school's name or...

Scope and Contents The Anne Fannie Gorham Diary Collection consists of the diary of Anne Fannie Gorham, which describes her daily life in Hamilton, Georgia at the beginning of the Civil War. It also includes a typed transcript of the diary, photocopies of a book on Gorham family genealogy, and a letter stating the finding of the diary.The Anne Fannie Gorham diary begins in December 30, 1861 and ends with July 13, 1862. It measures 3.5 inches by 5.5 inches. There is an entry for every day, and the...

Scope and Contents This small collection consists of the transcription of the memoirs of Bailey George McClellan entitled “A Personal Account of the 10th Alabama Regiment, Co. D during the Civil War, 1861.” The publication date is shown as January 5, 1901. It appears the McClellan originally published his personal account in a newspaper, which has not been identified. The printed transcription is spiral bound.McClellan gives detailed unit history, including unit movements, organization and...

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The collection consists of 5 photocopied items, all related to his application for a pension.

Scope and Contents The Collection consists of materials generated during the projects to raise the Ironclad Muscogee and the fantail of the gunboat Chattahoochee and to establish the James W. Woodruff, Jr. Confederate Naval Museum, as it was known at that time, where these artifacts are housed. The collection contains correspondence (5 file folders), a minute book (1976-1974), a ledger book listing volunteer workers, and an audio tape “The Last Hope, the Story of the Gunboat Muscogee”, used on a radio show....

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the typescript of the diary of James William Howard. The original diary consisted of three parts which were carried around with him and thus were badly worn. About 1904, Mrs. Agnes Eason, the Poet Laureate of Florida, convinced him to let her type a copy of the diary as he read it to her. This copy is the same one that the family allowed the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to copy. It also contains a family history added...

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This small folder contains the original pension record awarded in 1911 to Lemuel R. Thompson, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Additional pages were printed out from Ancestry.com about the life of Thompson, including census records from 1870 to 1910 and military records.

Scope and Contents This small collection consists of one notebook-style book entitled Lawyer’s Desk book 1936 that Etta B. Worsley used as a notebook to record her entries and notes from other sources about southern history. She copied copiously from six history books. Included at the back of the notebook are items shown in an exhibit called the Episcopal Church Exhibits Columbus Heirlooms. Worsley was the author of Columbus on the Chattahoochee in 1951.The books that she cites include: 1)...