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1 Title:   Rattlesnake Confederate Steamship stock certificate  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Confederate States of America  
  Dates:   1862  
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A photocopy of single $1,000 share certificate for the Confederate Steamship Rattlesnake, dated November 17, 1862, made out to F. A. Brake and signed by T. Harrison Baker.
 
  Identifier:   ms725  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Joel S. Kennard Civil War letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1861-1863  
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This collection contains Confederate military orders and correspondence to and from Lt. Joel S. Kennard, who commanded C.S.S. Sampson and C.S.S. Isondiga in the waters around Savannah, Georgia during the Civil War.
 
  Identifier:   ms4560  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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3 Title:   John McIntosh Kell letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900  
  Dates:   1861 March  
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The collection consists of two letters: dated Georgia Naval Steamer Savannah, Savannah, March 22, 1861, to "My dear Sir," signed "John McIntosh Kell," regarding the actions of Commodore Josiah Tattnall and the removal of guns from Fort Clinch, Florida to Fort Pulaski, Georgia; dated Georgia Naval Steamer Savannah, Savannah, March 25, 1861, to "My beloved wife," signed "John McIntosh Kell," regarding Georgia social news.
 
  Identifier:   ms1381  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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4 Title:   John McIntosh Kell family scrapbook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kell family  
  Dates:   1860-1986  
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The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, engravings, etchings, and photographs. Subjects include Confederate veterans, the Confederate Navy ships the Alabama and Sumter, as well as reunions. Also included are Sidney Lanier, the Association of the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division, churches in Georgia, and Kell family genealogy.
 
  Identifier:   ms2361  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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5 Title:   Josiah Tattnall letter to Henry C. Wayne  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Tattnall, Josiah, 1795-1871  
  Dates:   1861 February 10  
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A letter from Josiah Tattnall to General Henry C. Wayne that conveys Tattnall's intent to travel to Washington, D.C. to resign his post as Commodore of the U.S. Navy, in response to Georgia's vote to secede from the Union, and to immediately return to Georgia to join the state navy. After many battles as a flag officer of the Confederate Navy, Tattnall was later captured by Sherman in Savannah in late 1864.
 
  Identifier:   ms3602  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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6 Title:   U.S.S. Western World (Ship) log  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Gregory, Samuel B.  
  Dates:   1862-1881  
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The collection consists of the logbook of the Union screw steamer Western World from 1862. Daily entries by Samuel B. Gregory regard the weather, crew activities, food, and ship operations. Gregory writes about blockading activities off Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Frederica, St. Simons, and Doboy Sound, Georgia; numerous encounters with Confederate ships and blockade-runners in the North Santee River (S.C.); and raids on several plantations. Three handwritten letters and a bill of sale are laid in the log.
 
  Identifier:   ms2425  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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