- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Diary transcriptions, Samuel P. Richards, Volume 11, pp. 64-144, May 1865 - November 1869
- Creator:
- Richards, S. P. (Samuel Pierce), 1824-1910
- Publisher:
- Richards family papers, MSS 176, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center.
- Date of Original:
- 1865-05/1869-11
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- People:
- Richards, Dora
Richards, Irene
Richards, Sarah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- This collection contains the diaries and typewritten transcripts of the diaries of Samuel P. Richards. Journals of Irene Richards, Sarah V. Richards, and Dora Richards. There is also correspondence, family history, a Bible, and scrapbooks containing various information. These papers chronicle daily events in Atlanta and prices and availability of goods. They also describe the shelling and evacuation of the city and also the travels of S.P. Richards to New York as a refugee in 1864, and his return to Atlanta over a year later.
Samuel P. Richards and his brother Jabez J. Richards opened their "Book, Music, and Fancy Store" in Macon, Georgia in October of 1848. In 1855, they opened another store in Atlanta and the store proved so successful that eventually they closed the Macon store and established a headquarters in Atlanta. After fleeing to New York during the Civil War, the brothers returned to Atlanta and postwar business began to grow. Samuel retired from the business in 1894. He left his business to his three sons.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_ahc0176-005-005
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ahc/turningpoint/do:ahc0176-005-005
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. All requests to publish, quote, or reproduce must be submitted through the Kenan Research Center.
This collection is open for research. - Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Richards family papers, MSS 176, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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