Box 640

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains the typescript of a paper entitled "The Private Scribblings of Jas. A. Henderson, Co. C. 12th Iowa V. V. Infantry, Centre, Ala. - Dec. 1, 1865." Henderson was apparently attached to the Assistant Provost Marshal's office in Centre, Alabama, after the Civil War. The first four pages begin as a simple diary but changes into an unfinished short story of patriotism, heroism, jealousy, and love, that takes place during the war and where the young protagonist was set upon...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a letter dated January 1878, from C. N. Henkle to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing his involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

A letter from the minister of the Greensboro Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, Alabama, to an unidentified recipient discussing Hillhouse's wishes for the Presbyterians to reform the Catholic Church.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, to Gideon Luger, discussing government problems

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of a letter dated 17 July 1853, from Catherine Hixon in Pike County, Alabama, to her friend, Mrs. Elizabeth Horn, at St. Andrews Bay, Florida. It discusses family matters and health.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains letters written to Hedrick by former students and others while they were prisoners of war in Union prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains an 1866 resolution addressed to President Andrew Johnson by two Greene County, Alabama freemasons chapters, requesting the pardon and release of several associates. The resolution contains the newspaper account of the incident and the related trial before a military commission.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains the minutes of this Pickensville, Alabama, Freemasons lodge, from 18 December 1840 through 25 October 1841.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The letters, in verse and prose, cover a variety of topics related to the island. Its geography, geology, and climate are discussed, including references to La Grande Soufrière, a volcano on Basse-Terre; the springs of Bouillante; and to a hurricane that swept Guadeloupe and Dominica, an island to the south. He also describes local flora and cultivated crops, including sugar cane. Many letters touch on the creole population, his estimation of their abilities and health as well as attitudes...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a typescript copy of a letter dated 12 April 1865, written by 17-year old Fulton to his sister, Mrs. Theodora Fulton Pettus in Livingston, Alabama, describing the surrender of Mobile to Union forces.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a letter dated 8 August 1864 from Marie GIles to her cousin, a soldier in the Confederate Army. In it she tells him about interruptions in railroad service, provisions for the army, and poor people at home.

Scope and Contents

Contains two typescript copies and one photocopy of Morgan S. Gilmer's booklet, Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry, written in 1905.

Scope and Contents The correspondence contains letters primarily to Gilmer from Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, and Eugene Smith, State Geologist, discussing plans by the Montgomery County Chapter of the Yallerhammers to erect a memorial tablet to Captain Shockley’s Company. Shockley was a student of the University of Alabama as were several of his Independent Escort Company. The correspondence centers around the form the Yallerhammers memorial was to take as the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, purchased by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a letter from Goethals to O.M. Carter regarding Carter's return to the "service."

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains a letter dated 28 April 1837, from Tuscaloosa, to her sister, Mary Wyckoff. In it, Louisa discusses her move to Tuscaloosa, the failure of her husband to visit Mary while in New York, and fashions.