Box 640
Container
Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:
Resolution
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
circa 1866
Minutes
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1840-1841
Letters
File — Box: 640, Folder: 5
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...
Dates:
after 1803 and before 1815
Letter
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1865 April 12
Receipt
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1836 January 28
Letter
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1864 August 8
Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry by Morgan S. Gilmer [typescript & photocopy of the original], 1905
File — Box: 640, Folder: 8
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.
Dates:
1905
Letter
File — Box: 640
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains a letter from Goethals to O.M. Carter regarding Carter's return to the "service."
Dates:
1918 March 27