Box SC1850-1899.004
Container
Contains 24 Collections and/or Records:
Letter
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 68.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter, dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia, " to "Dear Uncle." It contains news of friends and of the war. A penciled annotation identifies Uncle John as John Allison.
Dates:
1862 March 6
Letter and transcription
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 1163.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter dated 22 April 1864, from Head Quarters, Sub-district of the Pamlico, Washington, D.C., to Commander Renshaw, warning him of enemy troop movements. The collection also contains a typed transcript.
Dates:
1864 April 22
Letter
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 1177.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains the original, along with a typed transcript of a letter, from Radford in Norfolk, Virginia, to Lieutenant Commander T. C. Harris, commanding U.S.S. Yantic, relative to the security of Jefferson Davis, a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.
Dates:
1865 July 15
Records, 1886 - 1890
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 1592.01
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From the Collection:
This collection includes meeting minutes, bylaws, the constitution, and other papers.
Dates:
1886 - 1890
Notes and Photographs on The History of Greensboro, Alabama
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 2316.01
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From the Collection:
This collection contains Yerby's handwritten notes on events in Greensboro, Alabama, and two photos.
Dates:
1885-1905
Broadside
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3710.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains the small broadside of the 14-verse poem, Flight of Doodle! about the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). Written after the first battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, the song (sung to the tune of Root Hog or Die!) tells how the troops of each Confederate state in the battle trounced the Yankee forces.
Dates:
1862
Letter
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3713.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama. Price describes - in horrific detail - the attacks by the Ku Klux Klan on 5th and 7th of December in 1868 against a doctor in Sumter County, Alabama. According to Price, the doctor's only 'crime' was that he was a 'radical' (i.e., a Unionist Republican). After...
Dates:
1868 December 21
Documents
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3725.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains a photocopy of the Registration form showing that John W. Field and Frederick Newhall were the registered owners of the Bark Conrad at the time of its capture by the C.S.S. Alabama in June 1863. There is also a photocopy of the 1854 "Proof of Ownership of a Ship or Vessel to be Registered" form indicating that John W. Field was the only owner of the Bark ...
Dates:
1861
Program
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3726.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains the program for the 1890 Tuskaloosa Female College commencement exercises.
Dates:
1890 June 10
Roar of the Crowd, with the One and Only Joe Louis (Movietone Biography), 1953
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1953
CSA Imprint, "Camp Withers, Talladega, AL", 1864-06-30
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1864-06-30
Two Tuscaloosa Yellow Fever broadsides, 1878
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.01
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Two broadsides regarding yellow fever in Tuscaloosa. The first, "No Yellow Fever in Tuscaloosa" printed handbill (9" x 6"), informed citizens that although two visitors to Tuscaloosa from Vicksburg had succumbed to the fever, in the following two weeks, no one in Tuscaloosa had fallen ill of the disease. The second, "Mayor's Office" handbill (6 3/4" x 4 1/8"), signed by then mayor O. Berry, informed cities that had enforced a quarantine against Tuscaloosa to rescind that order, as the town...
Dates:
1878
"Democratic Party is Calling You!" circular
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.02
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1860
Statements
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3729.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains two statements from the Watkins Mercantile and Banking Company of Faunsdale, Alabama, detailing items purchased by Miss Winnie Walker in the last quarter of 1892.
Dates:
1892
Assessment List
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3734.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains the list of property owned by Jack Hodges, both real estate and personal property, for tax purposes in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, in 1869. The list of personal property includes questions about the number and value of cattle, mules, wagons, and household furniture among other things.
Dates:
1869 April 15
Diary
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3764.01
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From the Collection:
Captain J. J. Magee of the "Independent Blues" (later Company D of the Eighth Alabama Infantry Regiment) kept a small diary, documenting daily, from January 11 to February 23, 1861, the activities of his unit and company. As the Eighth Alabama wasn't mustered in until June 10, 1861, in Richmond, Virginia, many of these entries describe pranks and parties. The Blues were discharged on February 23rd and returned to Selma, Alabama. One of the last entries in the diary, dated March 21, 1861,...
Dates:
1861
Field order
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4008.01
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From the Collection:
The collection consists of field orders for a strategic withdrawal from Major Robert W. Hunter / AAAG (C.S.A.) at General Edward Johnson's headquarters to Colonel B.T. Johnson of Jones' Brigade. The orders direct Col. Johnson to quietly round up his men and while observing the "strictest silence," wait until 11:00 p.m. to be relieved. The orders continue saying that if no relief comes to "quietly withdraw" to WIlliamsport, Maryland, with no drums beaten or signals sounded.
Dates:
1863 July 13
Battle report
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4009.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The report from Tillson to his commander, General Irvin McDowell, through McDowell's chief of staff, Colonel Edmund Schriver, about the Union's artillery in three actions of the second Manassas (Bull Run) campaign in 1862. Actions covered include Rappahannock Station (August 22, 1862), Brawner's Farm (August 28, 1862), and Second Manassas (August 29-30, 1862). Tillson's report provides great detail and significant primary information about famous and dramatic battles.
Dates:
1862 September 30
Fragments
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4016.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection is made up of two essay fragments, one of which quotes a speech given by Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff to the ladies of the memorial association on April 27, 1894.
Dates:
after 1865
Trade card
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4027.01
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From the Collection:
The collection contains Mrs. A. G. Tower's trade card advertising her dressmaking business in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
circa 1880
Broadside
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4052.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a broadside from the office of the superintendent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands listing the thirteen rules of conduct for "all concerned" which included: freedmen, employers, and employees regardless of color.
Dates:
1866 January 20
Astronomical Observatories in the United States, 1856
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4055.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a photocopy of the 1856 Harper's New Monthly article
Astronomical Observatories in the United States. The section on the Tuscaloosa Observatory is on pages 42-44 and a typewritten copy of that section has also been provided for easy reading. The document is also on a CD-ROM disc and a 3.5" floppy disk.
Dates:
1856
Letters
File — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 4056.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains letters from Abner E. Patton of the Eleventh Alabama Infantry to his family. There is also a letter from a niece or great-niece, Mabel Patton Morrison, to one of Abner's sisters thanking her for allowing her (Mabel) to copy Abner's letters. The collection also has a family tree of the Patton and Steele families.
Dates:
1861-1953
Sells Floto Circus presents the Largest and Best After-Show on Earth broadside
Item — Box: SC1850-1899.004, Folder: 3727.04
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a variety of broadsides in the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library.
Dates:
1860