Collections | Special Collections & Archives

A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Collection

Identifier: W-0083

Overview Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.

Dates: 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Adams Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0006

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1849 - 1926; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Rucker Agee papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0013

Abstract [None]

Dates: 1861 - 1977

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Claims Documents

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4160

Overview Historical documents relating to the Geneva Award claims

Dates: 1870-1886

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama historical documents collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0037

Overview 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.

Dates: 1826-1866

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alabama Warriors speech text

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0053

Overview 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.

Dates: 1933

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

Collection

Identifier: W-0037

Overview Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916

Dates: 1916

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Morris diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0115

Overview Diary written by Union soldier Alfred Morris, containing entries written between October 1862 and September 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Parmenter papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0153

Overview 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

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alice A. Lide Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0127

Abstract 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.

Dates: undated

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Allen Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0064

Overview 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.

Dates: 1848-1906

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jonathon A. B. Allison letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0068

Overview A letter dated 6 March 1862, from "Camp Alabama, near Dumfries, Virginia," to "Dear Uncle," with news of friends and the war.

Dates: 1862 March 6

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ambrose Doss Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0446

Overview Collection contains letters written by Ambrose Doss of Jefferson County, Alabama, to his wife, Sarah Brake Doss while he was in Co. C of the 19th Alabama Regiment from the time of his enlistment in 1861 until his death on 1864 July 5 near Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. There is also a letter from Lt. J. W. Rouse, dated 1864 July 6, to Sarah telling her of Ambrose’s death and burial. There are several miscellaneous documents including a short biographical sketch of Doss and a booklet titled...

Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Pitt Ballinger diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0104

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1864-1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

Collection

Identifier: W-0160

Overview 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.

Dates: 1859 - 1979

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs

Collection

Identifier: W-0077

Overview Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members

Dates: 1863 - 1887

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0657

Overview Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.

Dates: 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James C. Bennett papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0137

Abstract 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.

Dates: circa 1862-1899; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1869

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

Collection

Identifier: W-0013

Overview 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.

Dates: 1916, 1939

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Donald Brown collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3690

Overview 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.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4339

Scope and Contents This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals. The ledgers are...

Dates: 1862-04 - 1865-04

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. I. B. DeLage letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0156

Overview 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.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. N. Henkle Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0664

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1878-01

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C. S. Phillips letter

Collection

Identifier: W-0155

Overview Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.

Dates: 1865-04-18

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Captain William McMicken Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4241

Overview Captain William McMicken (1827-1899) was a farmer, Recorder of Dodge County, Union soldier in the Civil War, Assessor of Internal Revenue of the First Congressional District of Minnesota, an employee of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and United States Surveyor General and Territorial Treasurer for the Washington Territory. He appears to have received the diary as a gift in December of 1864. Captain McMicken created entries for January through May of 1865, with a few scattered entries in...

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Mitchell War Between the States Lithograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3919

Overview Civil War prints including several by Kurz and Allison, Currier and Ives, Charles Magnus, and Louis Prang, and Kurz and Allison.

Dates: 1861-1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Robinson papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0161

Overview Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1864 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Chief Surgeon's General Order No. 107

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0306

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1862 December 17

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Thomas P. Clinton letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0319

Overview Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.

Dates: Unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Elizabeth Clitherall letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0320

Abstract 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

Dates: 1863 July 30

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Coleman and Truss family letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0103

Overview Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama

Dates: 1860 - 1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III

Collection

Identifier: W-0012

Overview Unpublished typescript of the memoirs of twenty Confederate soldiers

Dates: 1861-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate Military History of Alabama

Collection

Identifier: W-0056

Overview Manuscript of General Joseph Wheeler's Confederate Military History of Alabama.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Ninth Georgia Cavalry Regiment (Cobb's Legion) vouchers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0565

Overview Vouchers issued to soldiers of the Ninth Georgia Cavalry Regiment by the Confederate States Army for pay, etc.

Dates: 1862

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Second Alabama Light Artillery Battalion, Lumsden's Battery, Muster Roll

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0885

Abstract Muster roll of Lumsden's Battery near the time of its formation in November 1861.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Third Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company C (Swanson's Company) muster roll

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0351

Overview The muster roll of Captain William G. Swanson's Company, Company D, of the Third Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4 May 1861.

Dates: 1861 May 4

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States of America, War Department, Nitre and Mining Bureau, District 10 letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0350

Overview Letter dated 4 October 1864, from W.H.C. Price, Superintendent of the C.S.A. War Department's Nitre and Mining District 10, to P.J. Weaver, requesting his urgent cooperation in the manufacturing of nitre.

Dates: 1864 October 4

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi

Collection

Identifier: W-0014

Overview A handwritten ledger documenting the collection and distribution of foraged and purchased materials by Confederate officers at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi.

Dates: 1862-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Confederate States Army, Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment records

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0349

Overview A miscellany of materials pertaining to the 38th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including muster rolls of Company A, a special order naming hospital stewards, a certificate of disability, and a list of payment and clothing issued.

Dates: 1862-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W.H.H. Cooper furlough

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0222

Overview A furlough dated 13 December 1861, issued to W. H. H. Cooper, a private in Captain D. L. Patterson's Company, 20th Mississippi Volunteers for the period 13 December 1861 to 12 January 1862.

Dates: 1861 December 13

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cowin family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0364

Overview Photocopies of the diary and essays written by John H. Cowin of Green County, Alabama covering events from 22 April through 13 November 1861 as well as a smaller diary for the month of January 1863. There is also a presidential pardon and oaths of allegiance certificates for Samuel Cowin, as well as photocopies of miscellaneous documents including Alabama tax statements from 1875 and 1877 and newspaper clippings, and a Civil War era Smith and Wesson Model 2 Army revolver. Also in the...

Dates: 1861–1921

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

CSS Alabama partial muster roll

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3724

Overview Partial muster roll of the CSS Alabama.

Dates: after 1864 June 19

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

C.S.S. Tuscaloosa Logs

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0251

Overview Portions of the logs for the C.S.S. Alabama and the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa. The logs document the daily weather, longitude and latitude as well as information about engagements with enemy ships. There is also a list of ships captured by the Alabama from 5 September 1862 to 20 June 1863 and copies of the correspondence between Lieutenant John Low as captain of the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa and various authorities of the British colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Dates: 1862–1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John E. Curry collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0386

Overview Photocopies of letters from David H. Vinton, Assistant Quartermaster in New York, to Lieutenant Josiah Gorgas at Watervliet Arsenal, refusing to grant Gorgas’s request for supplies to be sent to Pensacola, and from University of Alabama cadet John H. Marshall in Tuscaloosa, discussing the possible role of the cadets in the defense of the state, the fainting of several cadets during a dress parade, and inquires about his family.

Dates: 1846-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Curtis R. Burke journal

Collection

Identifier: W-0063

Overview Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.

Dates: 1971

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

David Holmes Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4212

Overview Collection of two diaries, two sketchbooks, six letters, and other items created by Sergeant David Holmes (1841-1864) of the 20th Michigan Infantry. The materials provide insight into the rigors of daily life for an Civil War soldier

Dates: 1858-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Davidson paper

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0401

Abstract A paper titled "Brigadier General James Holt Clanton, Alabama's Rash Gallant" and delivered to the Alabama Historical Association, April 17, 1959.

Dates: 1959 April 17

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jefferson Davis Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0404

Abstract This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.

Dates: 1823-1917

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Donoho family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3704

Overview Letters between members of a close Tuscaloosa family written primarily during the Civil War.

Dates: 1838-1914

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

H.B. Dugger scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0453

Overview A scrapbook of essays and poems clipped from Civil War era newspapers.

Dates: 1865-1869

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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