Letterbook, outgoing legal and personal correspondence, 1871-1883

Consists primarily of the incoming and outgoing legal correspondence of S.D. Cabaniss. The series is divided into the following three subseries: Personal, Legal, and S.D. Cabaniss and Associated Attorneys. All incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically and all outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically. Incoming correspondence often contains multiple letters from the same individual and is thus sorted chronologically as well, after the initial alphabetical arrangement. The S.D. Cabaniss personal correspondence includes letters to and from Cabaniss and his extended family and friends. The series also includes a smaller portion of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Cabaniss's legal partners before the Civil War, including Hopkins, Parsons, Brickell, and Walker. After the war, correspondence is often addressed to and from his legal partnership, Cabaniss and Ward. Additionally, there is correspondence addressed to and from to a variety of attorneys that Cabaniss was involved in litigation with, including James McClung, Reuben Chapman, and J.W. Shepherd. There is a small section of miscellaneous correspondence that could not be assigned to a case file or to an attorney associated with Cabaniss which remains unarranged. The series concludes with letterbooks that contain a mix of outgoing correspondence, primarily from Cabaniss and Ward, but also from Huntsville attorneys John H. Lewis and W. Garth, who were associated in casework with Cabaniss.