Box SC1850-1899.005

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains letters written by Chamberlin to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition. Also included is a 1898 letter from Henry to May.Letters include: Letter to Mother, May 23, 1861; Letter to Mother, June 30, 1861; Letter to Mother, November 13, 1861; Letter to Brother, March 14, 1862; Letter to Mother, April 9, 1862; Letter to Brother, May 8, 1862; Letter to...

Content Description From the Collection: These depositions contain the 1853 testimony of plantation owner Peyton Graves and his wife, Jane Graves, regarding the case of their neighbor Elva Jenkins against her husband, doctor and plantation owner Edwin Jenkins. The documents consist of a series of answers to "Interrogatories" or "Interrogations" posed separately to Peyton and Jane Graves regarding how they knew the Jenkins family and the goings-on they witnessed in the Jenkins household--in particular, a violent incident in which...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Sheldon C. Treat Civil War Correspondence contains twenty-two letters and a short biographical document. Four letters were written by Treat before he enlisted as a Union soldier in in the US Civil War in August 1861. Fourteen letters by Treat cover his time serving in the war, and include his descriptions of the Battle of Pea Ridge (Arkansas, 1862), the Battle of Fort Hindman (Arkansas, 1863), and other events. Another three letters were written by Treat after the war was over. The...

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This collection contains copies of a picture of Munroe, letters, and an application of a Confederate pension.

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The collection contains the primative catchall diary of T. Jackson of Gainesville, Alabama, written over the course of several years. The diary appears to be homemade with a variety of paper types.

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The collection contains a very detailed travel diary of a young man and his family traveling in Scotland and Europe in 1860. He describes learning how to make a pot of coffee, fishing expeditions, and having to apply to the American ministry in London for a passport after having left his in Dundee, Scotland.

There is a note in pencil inside the front cover that states, "Diary kept by my father when in Europe 16 yr old."

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The collection contains the diary of Union soldier Captain James Neff of Fosters Mills, Pennsylvania, kept during the final years of the Civil War.

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The collection consists of a diary written in 1869 by R. H. Cook of Rose Hill, Mississippi, which is about midway between Meridian, Mississippi, and what is now the Bienville National Forest. Cook begins each entry with a description of the weather and then goes on to the general events of his day. There are also approximately sixty pages of poetry as well, written from 1870 into the early 1880s.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter from nephew Hildreth to his uncle with an unfavorable answer to a request for advice concerning a debt owed him by a former British vice consul to Mobile during the Civil War. He explains that Mr. Magee, the vice consul, is most likely insolvent and that he has left Mobile and is living with his daughter. Hildreth adds that if the war was over (he implies a Confederate victory) "our Govt would probably give him something to live on in the way of a consulate...

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The collection contains the small commonplace book of St. Valentine ("Val") Taylor of Uniontown, Alabama. The book is filled with newspaper clippings and handwritten poems and notes. The first part of the book is filled with clippings about his run for mayor of Uniontown at the age of 23, as well as several notices and obituaries for his father, Judge James W. Taylor. The rest of the book contains clippings of poems and articles of interest to Taylor.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter from J. M. Burke to his uncle discussing the chances of various political candidates in the 1860 election. After some discourse about how Douglas is "on the rise" and "a great man" and that he would "vote for him if I thought he wanted my vote to carry Ala. against Bell of Ga, but I am in principle a Whig", Burke tallies the electoral college like this: Bell with 73 votes (although Burke's estimations actually come to 81: New York - 10; Delaware - 3; New...

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The collection consists of handwritten and typescript documents - correspondence, affidavits, etc. - relating to two southern clients, Marie E. Chandler and H. R. Garner, of the New York lawyer Quinton Corwine, dealing with compensation due them for cotton seized by federal agents during the Reconstruction period.

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The collection contains an account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals. In it are expenditures for tobacco, straw hats, flour, and bacon, as well as at least one agreement to hire out horse mules and other gear "for the purpose of making a crop on my land commonly known as the Hurd Place" for one year.

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The collection contains an account ledger of R. Aaron Dean showing debits and credits charged to various individuals. In it are expenditures for tobacco, straw hats, flour, and bacon, as well as at least one agreement to hire out horse mules and other gear "for the purpose of making a crop on my land commonly known as the Hurd Place" for one year.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a letter from C. L. Clawson of Nation Ford (near Fort Mill), South Carolina, to his cousin Isaiah Clawson in Woodstown, New Jersey, in 1850. The letter is filled with family news and talk of growing cotton in Alabama versus in South Carolina. He also goes into some detail about their ancestors, particularly those of his cousin, and the preponderance of scriptural names in the family. He adds in a post script that he was married on the 11th of January in Montgomery,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains a newsy letter from L. M. Waddel in Montgomery, Alabama, to her friend Cynthia Ann in from Tallahassee, Florida, where she used to live. In the letter she laments the early death of a mutual friend in Tallahassee and then asks about several other friends. She also describes the parties and weddings that have occurred in Montgomery over the winter, including one given by an elder of the Presbyterian Church in which there was no wine or dancing - "a rare exception, I...