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A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.
A. L. Willoughby receipt and letter book
Receipts from grocers, clothing sellers, and other Mobile, Alabama, merchants detailing personal expenditures; also includes seventy-six letters, mostly relating family news.
Adam H. Whetstone diary
Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama
Adams Family papers
This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.
Alabama Claims Documents
Historical documents relating to the Geneva Award claims
Alabama historical documents collection
Miscellaneous deeds, certificates, bills of sale, legal suits, court orders, and bonds pertaining to various regions or persons in Alabama. Includes a copy of the post-Civil War loyalty oath.
Alabama Review editorial records
Miscellaneous correspondence, as well as copies of submitted articles (published and unpublished), of this peer-reviewed academic journal that presents the best of scholarship on the history of the state.
Alabama Warriors speech text
Text of a speech describing the contribution of Emma Sansom, Joseph Wheeler, Raphael Semmes, and John Pelham to Alabama history, read at the February 2, 1933, meeting of the Canebreak Rifle Guard Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Alfred Morris diary
Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.
Alfred Parmenter papers
Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents
Alice A. Lide Papers
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Alice A. Lide, recounting his life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
Allen Family papers
The business and personal papers of John G. Allen (1810- 1891) and his son Charles Edward (1860-1943), planters of Marengo County, Alabama, including Civil War letters, tenant farmer contracts, mortgages and indentures, bills and receipts, personal letters, insurance policies, and miscellaneous items relating to the family.
Jonathon A. B. Allison letter
A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.
Alonzo B. Palmer Collection
This collection contains Palmer's diary, April-July 1865, when his Regiment, the First Ohio Light Artillery, was stationed in Tennessee and Alabama. The diary's frequent entries describe daily life in the camp, including meals, weather, and military activities. The collection also contains a photograph, ca. 1870, of several men, including Palmer, outside a store.
Ambrose Doss Papers
Andrew Jackson Riddle papers
Papers and photographs by Civil War photographer Andrew Jackson Riddle.
Augusta Evans Wilson papers
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.
Axalla John Hoole Papers
This collection consists of a manuscript written by W.S. Hoole, read to the Darlington Historical Society, October 7, 1967.
William Pitt Ballinger diary
Diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, other legal cases legal and business, as well as personal and family affairs.
Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection
A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.
William Robert Bell letter
A letter dated 29 May 1864 from a Confederate soldier to his mother and sister while stationed in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs
Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members
Benjamin Rice Holt Papers
Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Letters
Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
James C. Bennett papers
A miscellaneous collection of Civil War material of this Union soldier from Indiana, including enlistment lists, muster roles, war songs, writings, drawings, a diary, genealogical information, and clippings. All materials are photocopies of originals.
Benton Bell Seat memoirs
This collection contains a typed copy of Benton Bell Seat's autobiography, which is approximately 200 pages long. Seat wrote the manuscript in 1916, and it was typed and produced in 1939 by the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Bogy and Smith Families genealogy
A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
L.O. Brackeen paper
Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.
Donald Brown collection
The Century War Book: Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (People's Pictorial Edition); Alabama Citizens' Commission on Constitutional Reform Collection; Rosenwald Schools in Kentucky, 1917-1932 Papers; and 4) Another Star is Born: Grand Opening Tuscaloosa Mercedes-Benz M-class Press Information packet.
Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs
C. I. B. DeLage letter
A letter from C. I. B. DeLage, a Mobile, Alabama, commission agent, to Carl G. Schneider detailing the financial history of Mobile during the Civil War.
C. N. Henkle Letter
A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.
C. S. Phillips letter
Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
J. F. J. Caldwell letter
Letter written by Caldwell, dated 5 September 1861, to James Simms of Charleston, South Carolina, inquiring about a note and asking for assistance in getting a secretaryship with the Confederate Commissioners being sent to Europe.
Callahan Family papers
A miscellany of materials, primarily genealogical records of a large number of families. The collection also contains files on the Hopewell Baptist Church in Fayette County, Alabama, the 26th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company F, Alabama land records, and on women's suffrage.
Captain Raphael Semmes Signed Carte de Visite
Captain Raphael Semmes signed Carte de Visite.
Captain William McMicken Diary
Proctor Carlisle legal papers
The draft of a claim and an answering paper, dated June 1861, relative to the seizure of the British schooner "Tropic Wind" by the U.S.S. Monticello
Charles Mitchell War Between the States Lithograph Collection
Civil War prints including several by Kurz and Allison, Currier and Ives, Charles Magnus, and Louis Prang, and Kurz and Allison.
Charles Robinson papers
Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
Charles Summersell Photographs
Chief Surgeon's General Order No. 107
General Order No. 107 from Chief Surgeon S. Cooper's office in Richmond, Virginia, modifies an earlier order delineating medical officers' reasons for issuing medical furloughs for soldiers.
Clements family papers
Papers of a Tuscaloosa family whose members included Hardy Clements, Rufus Hargrove Clements, Martha Lavinia Clements, Frank Bugbee Clements, Luther Morgan Clements, and others. The bulk of the papers relate to Frank Bugbee Clements.
Thomas P. Clinton letters
Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.
Elizabeth Clitherall letter
Letter dated 30 July 1863, from Mobile, to her cousin Ann Greenough Burgwyn in North Carolina, extending sympathy on death of Burgwyn's son, Henry King Burgwyn, at Gettysburg, and expressing anti-war sentiments
Coleman and Truss family letters
Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama