Correspondence, Incoming, 1913-1914

The correspondence contains letters primarily to Gilmer from Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, and Eugene Smith, State Geologist, discussing plans by the Montgomery County Chapter of the Yallerhammers to erect a memorial tablet to Captain Shockley’s Company. Shockley was a student of the University of Alabama as were several of his Independent Escort Company.

The correspondence centers around the form the Yallerhammers memorial was to take as the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was also planning to erect a memorial boulder commemorating the services of the sons of the University to the Confederacy. The University administration wanted to make sure that similar types of monuments were not planned.