Box 3915.001
Container
Contains 12 Collections and/or Records:
Photography and Biographical Caption
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, 1859-1860 (4 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, 1861 (9 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, January 1862 (12 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, February - March 1862 (11 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, April - December 1862 (13 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, 1864 (10 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, 1865 (5 letters)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Letters, Undated (1 letter)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Muster Rolls, Registers, Etc. (photocopies)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Prisoner of War documents (photocopies)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Loyalty Oath (photocopy)
File — Box: 3915.001, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry. A few letters were written in 1859 to his parents while he was in school in Pulaski, Tennessee. Gaston may have been born in Alabama or Tennessee. The bulk of the letters were written during his service with the Confederate States Army and are to his mother, father, and siblings, from...
Dates:
1859 - 1865