Box SC2647

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I. They address training, the French people, combat, and Aldridge's desire to return home. The collection also includes a roster of his training company, as well as a paper titled "The Story of the 325th."

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of a miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the "Vine and Olive Colony" of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri. The collection contains a short typescript record of the Civil War service of Joseph Vestal Bogy, of Arkansas, who served in the Confederate Army, a modern copy of a photo of J. V. Bogy in...