- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Alexander P. Stewart letter to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar, 1864 May 31
- Creator:
- Stewart, Alexander Peter, 1821-1908
- Date of Original:
- 1864-05-31
- Subject:
- Confederate States of America. Army
Generals--Confederate States of America
Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns - People:
- Kellar, Andrew J.
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Paulding County, 33.92055, -84.86729 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of a letter from Alexander P. Stewart to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar, written from the field in Paulding County, Georgia on May 31, 1864 during the Atlanta campaign. Stewart encourages Kellar to join his staff, mentions being attacked by three divisions of Hooker's Corps and repulsed near New Hope Church, and that General Johnston pronounced it a magnificent fight.
Alexander Peter Stewart was born in 1821 and died in 1908. He was a Confederate General and commanded the Army of Tennessee in 1864. Before the war, he was a lieutenant colonel in the artillery, as well as a a professor of mathematics and experimental philosophy at Cumberland University and the University of Nashville. During the war, he was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. He fought in the Atlanta Campaign in 1864 and replaced General Polk when the other was killed in ation. He eventually lost command, and ultimately the Confederates lost the war. After the Civil War, he had several careers, all of which he seemed successful at.
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.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_harg1655-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg1655-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Alexander P. Stewart letter to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar. MS 1655. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Alexander P. Stewart letter to Colonel Andrew J. Kellar. MS 1655. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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