Williams, A. S., III

A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Collection

Identifier: W-0083

Overview Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.

Dates: 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

Collection

Identifier: W-0006

Overview Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.

Dates: 1861-1869

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book

Adam H. Whetstone diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0080

Overview Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Adam H. Whetstone diary

Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

Collection

Identifier: W-0037

Overview Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916

Dates: 1916

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

Alfred Morris diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0115

Overview Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Alfred Morris diary

Alfred Parmenter papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0153

Overview Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Alfred Parmenter papers

Andrew Jackson Riddle papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0162

Overview Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.

Dates: 1864 - 1956

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Andrew Jackson Riddle papers

Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0160

Overview A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.

Dates: 1859 - 1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs

Collection

Identifier: W-0077

Overview Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members

Dates: 1863 - 1887

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs

Benjamin Rice Holt Papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0159

Overview Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.

Dates: 1860 - 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Benjamin Rice Holt Papers

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

Collection

Identifier: W-0013

Overview This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Dates: 1916, 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Benton Bell Seat memoirs

C. I. B. DeLage letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0156

Overview A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / C. I. B. DeLage letter

C. S. Phillips letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0155

Overview Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / C. S. Phillips letter

Charles Robinson papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0161

Overview Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Charles Robinson papers

Coleman and Truss family letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0103

Overview Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama

Dates: 1860 - 1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Coleman and Truss family letters

"Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III

Collection

Identifier: W-0012

Overview Unpublished typescript of the memoirs of twenty Confederate soldiers

Dates: 1861-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / "Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III

Confederate Military History of Alabama

Collection

Identifier: W-0056

Overview Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Confederate Military History of Alabama

Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi

Collection

Identifier: W-0014

Overview A handwritten ledger documenting the collection and distribution of foraged and purchased materials by Confederate officers at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.

Dates: 1862-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi

Curtis R. Burke journal

Collection

Identifier: W-0063

Overview Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.

Dates: 1971

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Curtis R. Burke journal

Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Collection

Identifier: W-0157

Overview Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.

Dates: 1883 - 1918

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Garner family letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0030

Overview Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.

Dates: 1832-1886

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Garner family letters

George Platt Waller papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0085

Overview Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.

Dates: 1894 - 1895; 1952 - 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / George Platt Waller papers

George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0112

Overview Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

Townsend Heaton letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0091

Overview Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Townsend Heaton letters

Henry Tutwiler papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0081

Overview Contains three notebooks: an account book recording tuition payments at Greensboro Academy; a second account book documenting Henry Tutwiler's personal expenses; and a commonplace book containing book reviews, weather reports, and very brief entries about the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 - 1884

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Henry Tutwiler papers

James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers

Collection

Identifier: W-0111

Overview Notebook containing a roster and brief history of Company I of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a regiment formed by students enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University).

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers

Joseph Murrell letterbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0084

Overview Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Joseph Murrell letterbook

McAdory and Huey family papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0069

Overview Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama

Dates: 1863 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / McAdory and Huey family papers

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0050

Overview Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.

Dates: 1861-1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0031

Overview Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

Morris E. Boss letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0078

Overview Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Morris E. Boss letters

Oliver T. Reilly papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0158

Overview Papers and guidebook covering the Battle of Antietam, created by this childhood witness

Dates: 1906-1930

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Oliver T. Reilly papers

Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0163

Overview Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

Dates: 1861-1887

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers

Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War

Collection

Identifier: W-0071

Overview Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War

State of Louisiana troop expenses ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0067

Overview Expenses ledger for Louisiana state troops from 1862 to 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / State of Louisiana troop expenses ledger

Tentative register of Robert E. Lee books in Lexington, Virginia : typescript

Collection

Identifier: W-0126

Overview Seventy-one page typescript identifies books in Lexington, Virginia, that were once part of Robert E. Lee's personal library

Dates: 1978

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Tentative register of Robert E. Lee books in Lexington, Virginia : typescript

"The Federal raid into central Alabama"

Collection

Identifier: W-0040

Overview 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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / "The Federal raid into central Alabama"

"To Arms in the Valley" program and script

Collection

Identifier: W-0152

Overview Program, cast list, and script of To Arms in the Valley, an historical play about the Civil War set in northern Alabama and presented by the Tennessee Valley Historical Society and the Colbert-Lauderdale Civil War Centennial Commemoration Committee in 1961.

Dates: 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / "To Arms in the Valley" program and script

United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records

Collection

Identifier: W-0048

Overview Records of the United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, in Birmingham, Alabama, between 1906 and 1919.

Dates: 1906-1919

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records

"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript

Collection

Identifier: W-0151

Overview Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."

Dates: 1965

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / "Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript

Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

Collection

Identifier: W-0003

Overview Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace

Dates: 1947 - 1948

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material

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