Box 640
Container
Contains 9 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1835-04
File — Box: 640, Folder: 640.01
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.
Dates:
1835-04
Letter, 1838-08
File — Box: 640
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, to Gideon Luger, discussing government problems
Dates:
1838-08
Papers, 1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4
File — Box: 640, Folder: 662.01
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 by...
Dates:
1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4
Letters, 1864
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1864
Letter, 1878-01
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1878-01
Letter, 1853-07-17
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1853-07-17
Correspondence, Incoming, 1913-1914
File — Box: 640, Folder: 9
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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 Alabama...
Dates:
1913-1914
Letter
File — Box: 640
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.
Dates:
1837 April 28