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University of Alabama

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas P. Clinton letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Abstract

Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.

Dates: Unknown

Douthitt scrapbook materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Abstract

Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.

Dates: 1865 - 1877

Early University of Alabama Administrative Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-001
Abstract

The record group contains many early extant records of The University of Alabama and includes materials documenting a wide range of functions, persons, and aspects of the University.

Dates: 1820 - 1920

Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract

The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.

Dates: 1840-1925

"In Honor of the Cadets who Loyally and Courageously defended Tuscaloosa during Croxton's raid April 4th, 1865, and all those University Students who served" Print

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4193
Abstract

Framed print listing the names of the University of Alabama Cadets who were part of the defense of Tuscaloosa in 1865.

Dates: unknown

James Austin Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Abstract

A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.

Dates: 1898-1941

Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Abstract Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates: 1956

President Landon C. Garland Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-027
Abstract

This record group contains the correspondence of Landon C. Garland, University of Alabama president from 1855-1865.

Dates: 1852 - 1865; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865

"The Federal raid into central Alabama"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0040
Abstract

Text of a speech presented by James A. Anderson on April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Kiwanis club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Union raids in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1935 April 3

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Scrapbooks 3
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Biography 2
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University of Alabama -- History -- 19th century 2
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Cemeteries -- Alabama 1
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Daily Life and Family 1
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Manuscripts for publication 1
Maps 1
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Memorials -- United States 1
Military cadets 1
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Muster rolls 1
Northport (Ala.) 1
Photographs 1
Picture postcards 1
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Programs (documents) 1
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Slavery 1
Social life and customs 1
Southern Life and Culture 1
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