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Box 2877

 Container

Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and miscellaneous documents

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence to Sue Brown from friends and relatives, as well as a scrapbook and miscellaneous documents and correspondence. Included in the miscellaneous documents are: an 1832 annual catalog of the Tuscaloosa Female Academy; an 1893 postcard to Dr. D. M. Gatlin of Ellisville, Mississippi; two 1901 postcards to Dr. Charles R. Rencher of Enterprise, Mississippi; a 1916 typewritten note signed by H. L. Mencken; and seven World War II ration books and one gasoline...
Dates: 1833-1943

Scrapbook

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence to Sue Brown from friends and relatives, as well as a scrapbook and miscellaneous documents and correspondence. Included in the miscellaneous documents are: an 1832 annual catalog of the Tuscaloosa Female Academy; an 1893 postcard to Dr. D. M. Gatlin of Ellisville, Mississippi; two 1901 postcards to Dr. Charles R. Rencher of Enterprise, Mississippi; a 1916 typewritten note signed by H. L. Mencken; and seven World War II ration books and one gasoline...
Dates: 1833-1943

Diary, 1862 - 1865

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Contains a photocopy of a typescript of the diary Kenyon kept from early 1862, before he was taken prisoner, through 1864. The work also contains a bri copies of his Army orders and promotions through 1865. He provides fairly detailed descriptions of life as a prisoner of war in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and other southern cities.
Dates: 1862 - 1865

Letter, 1863-07

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Letter to Champion T. Turner regarding money he received after Richard L. Turner's death.
Dates: 1863-07

Church ledger, 1881-1901

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of photocopies of the Wiley, Alabama, New Hope Baptist Church of Christ meeting minutes, letter of faith, and financal records, 1881-83.
Dates: 1881 - 1903

Cantelou Family

 Item — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of photocopies of pages from the Henry J. Lang family record, as well as copies of some family correspondence. The collection also contains photocopies of pages from two books. The first are from "A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831 – 1901” compiled by Thomas Waverly Palmer, showing that John Rainsford Cantelou enrolled at the University in 1862, but that he did not graduate. There is also a copy of the form John Rainsford...
Dates: 1855–1965

Diary

 File — Box: 2877
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The collection contains a transcription of a diary created by a Union soldier who served in Company H of the 124th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry and mustered out in 1865. The diary spans the years 1863-1865.
Dates: 1863-1865