Speech

Item — Volume: W0040.01

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This twenty-two page manuscript is the 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. In the speech, Anderson discusses the raids of Selma and Montgomery led by General James H. Wilson and the capture of Tuscaloosa and the destruction of The University of Alabama by Brigadier General John T. Croxton.

Dates

Creation: 1935 April 3

Creator

From the Collection: Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Anderson, James Austin (Author, Person)

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