Box 640
Contains 17 Results:
Resolution
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.
Minutes
The collection contains the minutes of this Pickensville, Alabama, Freemasons lodge, from 18 December 1840 through 25 October 1841.
Letters
Letter
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.
Letter
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.
Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry by Morgan S. Gilmer [typescript & photocopy of the original], 1905
Contains two typescript copies and one photocopy of Morgan S. Gilmer's booklet, Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry, written in 1905.
Correspondence, Incoming, 1913-1914
Receipt
The collection contains a receipt dated 28 January 1836 for a 19 year old slave, Bradley, purchased by William Gary from Linoir Lassiter.
Letter
The collection contains a letter from Goethals to O.M. Carter regarding Carter's return to the "service."
Letter
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.
Letters, 1864
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.
Papers, 1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4
Letter, 1878-01
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.
Letter, 1835-04
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.
Letter, 1838-08
Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, to Gideon Luger, discussing government problems
Letter, 1853-07-17
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.