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Confederate States of America. Army. Shockley's Alabama Escort Company

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Morgan Smith Gilmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Abstract

Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.

Dates: 1954

Private Rosser's Colt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1363
Abstract

Photocopy of a typescript paper titled "Private Rosser's Colt" on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independent Escort Company, from Alabama.

Dates: unknown

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Booklets 1
Correspondence 1
Rosters 1
Soldiers' monuments 1
Students 1