Box 1114

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letters from Tuscaloosa to Samuel's cousin Edmond W. Samuel at Bagdad, Shelby Co., Kentucky; Fort Henry, Randolph Co., Missouri; Centersville, Missouri; and Salesbury, Chariton Co., Missouri. These are chatty letters with news, social and otherwise, of Tuscaloosa, the aftermath of the Civil War, and much else. Includes an account of the loss of the steamboat Montgomery, on which Samuel was a passenger, on the Black Warrior River.