Five letters written by this Union officer serving in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.

Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.

This item is an intercepted letter from Judah P. Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, to Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a Confederate politician and diplomat, regarding the slave trade. The letter provides insight into Benjamin’s perspectives on slavery and its role in Confederate policy.

A collection of correspondence, diaries, biographical notes, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia and other papers. It concerns the emigration of the family of John Washington Keyes and his wife Julia Hentz Keyes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after the Civil War, and their subsequent travel all over the world.

Includes the papers of the King family of Perry County, Alabama, who owned plantations and other businesses.

Contains personal materials of this Civil War veteran. King was a member of the Marion Light Infantry.

Letter from an African American U. S. Army chaplain during the Civil War to the father of one of the soldiers at the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia

This document is a letter written by G. Veltfort, a Union officer, from Libby Prison on December 12, 1863. The letter provides firsthand insight into the conditions within the Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, known for overcrowding, inadequate provisions, and harsh treatment of prisoners.

This document is a letter from Calvin Rice, a Union soldier from Massachusetts, to a family member, Oscar Rice. Written while stationed on Edisto Island, South Carolina, the letter provides firsthand insights into one of the main colonies of escaped formerly enslaved individuals during the Civil War. The letter offers a perspective on the role of Union soldiers in occupied Southern territories and the experiences of freed people during the war.

This collection contains letters sent to Lemuel P. Foss, a Union soldier during the US Civil War, from his family and friends in New Hampshire.

This collection contains letters sent to Maine native Marquis de Lafayette Lane while he served as US consul to Veracruz, Mexico, a post he held from 1862-1867.

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and to a lesser extent newspaper clippings, photographs and various miscellaneous material relating to personal, business, political, and official matters of this former blockade runner and Elmore County merchant and probate judge.

Battle flag of Lumsden's Battery, Company "F", 2nd Light Artillery Battalion.

This collection consists Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.

A letter dated 27 April 1863, to his wife, Olivia, written from Manchester, Tennessee. It discusses camp news, rumors of enemy movements, Stansel's wound, and eye surgery on his horse.

This collection contains four letters from Gravelly Springs, Alabama pertaining to ordinance returns and bills for Captain Clarence Mauck of the 4th U.S. Cavalry.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and ledgers written by members of the McAdory and Huey families of Bessemer, Marion, and Talladega, Alabama

Scrapbook of newspaper articles from Confederate newspapers (probably in Mobile, Alabama) documenting Civil War battles including the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Lexington, and the Battle of Leesburg.

Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.

Ledger documenting expenses, admittances, and discharges at a Montgomery, Alabama, hospital from 1 April to 4 November 1861.

Moore's Civil War letters, plays, naval chronology, plays, and roundtables; lists of members and board of trustees from multiple universities; notes, booklets, news, and biographies on the subject of the Civil War; etc.

Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.

Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.

A letter from Mullen to his family describng his troops' position in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Letters, a picture of Munroe, and an application for a Confederate pension

Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.

Papers and guidebook covering the Battle of Antietam, created by this childhood witness

Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.

Alabama's ordinance of secession, 1861

An 1863 letter from Columbia, Tennessee, to his wife and children, while serving in an unnamed Confederate regiment under General N. B. Forrest.

Peter Reeder Fortney (1843-1919) was a Union soldier from Ohio who fought in the US Civil War between 1862-1865. This collection contains two diaries he kept during 1864-1865, when his company served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.

This collection consists of fifty-two photographs of Poellnitz and Meador family members during the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the Early Twentieth Century.

Letter dated 22 April 1864, from Head Quarters, Sub-district of the Pamlico, Washington, North Carolina, to Commander Renshaw, warning him of enemy troop movements

This record group contains the correspondence of Landon C. Garland, University of Alabama president from 1855-1865.

Prices of domestic produce in Confederate Treasury Notes from 1 January 1861 to 1 January 1865

One broadside of a poem written by a Union soldier held at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, on 8 November 1861. The poem describes the food provided and the ways it was prepared at the prison in satirical verse.

Photocopy of a typescript paper titled "Private Rosser's Colt" on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independent Escort Company, from Alabama.

Original and typed copy from Radford to Lieutenant Commander T. C. Harris, discussing a possible attempt to rescue Jefferson Davis, a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.

Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.

This collection of six letters to family members was written by Robert A. Patterson, who was traveling with Company F of the 57th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry through Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama between 1862-1864. The letters describe the unit's actions and movements, interactions with locals, and encounters with enslaved persons escaping slaveholders.

Contains a bound, typewritten recollection of this Texas governor's life as a student of the University of Alabama, 1833-1836. He presented this to the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama in 1892. The work includes a photograph of a painting of him in approximately 1835.