Maurice Hamner Garland Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1785
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
Dates
- 1863 - 1865
Biographical/Historical note
Maurice Hamner Garland was the son of University of Alabama president Landon C. Garland and was a cadet at the University when the Civil War began. He served as Aide de Camp to his cousin Brigadier General Samuel M. Garland in Virginia until the latter's death in 1862. He was transferred to Mobile in 1863, where he worked with the engineer corps that designed and built the earthworks at Ft. Blakeley. He was captured by Union forces and interred as a prisoner of war at Ft. Gaines. Following the Civil War he became the first chancellor of Vanderbilt University.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (photocopies)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
Provenance
Gift of James M. Montgomery, 1986
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster, 2006
- Title
- Guide to the Maurice Hamner Garland Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Donnelly Lancaster
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository