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Huston Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.

Dates: 1831-1937

Jack D. L. Holmes papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Abstract

Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.

Dates: 1963-1988

James A. Goble diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Abstract

Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1862-1863

James Chamberlin letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0294
Abstract

Letters written to his mother and brother while serving with the 52nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Peninsular Campaign and the Charleston Expedition

Dates: 1861-1898; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1863

James H. McCleary Diary, Letter, and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1610
Abstract

Collection includes a photograph, letter, and diary of a Civil War soldier from Pennsylvania, who died during the battle of Gettysburg.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

James Thomas Murfee Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1031
Abstract

Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.

Dates: 1863 - 1864

Jesse Griffin letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Abstract

A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.

Dates: 1813 September 5

John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Abstract Collection contains letters written by John Horry Dent, Jr. (signed J. Horry Dent) of Barbour County, Alabama, from 1861 March 15 to 1864 July 1 to his father, John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Alabama. There are also two letters written by Dent Jr.’s fellow officers to Dent's father detailing information of Dent Jr.’s part aboard the C.S.S. McRae during the battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and his subsequent capture and internment at Fort Warren in May...
Dates: 1861 - 1864

John R. Hodge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0685
Abstract

Paper titled "An Editor Spends a Day with the Army,” [presented to the?] American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1942. Includes annotated photographs of editors visiting Governors Island, New York, HQ of Eastern Defense Command and First Army and photographs of defense drills somewhere on the East Coast.

Dates: 1942

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank: Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4010
Abstract

Manuscript of Alexander Hunter's Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, his narrative of service in the Confederate Army, under the working title, "Four Years in the Ranks."

Dates: 1905

Thomas G. Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3012
Abstract

A collection of papers written by and related to Thomas G. Jones. Correspondence includes letters written about Jones' service in the Civil War and an open letter to B.B. Comer. Other papers are written about Jones.

Dates: 1864-1911

Joseph Wilbourn Young letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract

A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.

Dates: 1820-1920

Francis William Kellogg Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2027
Abstract

One letter written by Francis William Kellogg to the secretary of the United States Navy recommending Malcolm Maurice Moore to the Naval School at Annapolis.

Dates: 1861 April 29

Kolb Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2132
Abstract

John Frederick Kolb and Valentine Bruner Kolb were from Frederick County, Maryland, and fought for the Union in the Civil War. Valentine Kolb's letters to his family discuss battles, artillery, and prisoners; John F. Kolb's notification to enroll is included as well as a letter he wrote to his parents. Letters to their father are also included.

Dates: 1861 - 1868

John Lambert and descendants manuscript

 Collection — Box: 1758
Identifier: MSS-0150
Abstract

Manuscript of Bethea's and Austin's book about this Revolutionary War soldier and his family. The book was published in 1978.

Dates: circa 1978

Letter from Alexander Scammell

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4348
Scope and Contents

One letter from Alexander Scammell (1741-1781) to his brother describing some of the events of the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War. This two-page letter was written in approximately June 1778.

Dates: 1778-06

Andrew Lipscomb Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1818
Abstract

Includes one letter written by Andrew A. Lipscomb, president of the University of Georgia, to Benson J. Lossing and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.

Dates: 1861 March 18

Macon and Miles Abernathy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0003
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1861 - 1878

Maurice Hamner Garland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1785
Abstract

Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Meriwether Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2217
Abstract

Family letters written by Juliet Bestor Coleman, her daughter, Alice Coleman Meriwether, and her son-in-law, John Samuel Meriwether, between 1833 and 1864. The bulk of the correspondence is between Alice and her husband, John, while he was serving in the 38th and 40th Alabama Infantry Regiments during the Civil War.

Dates: 1833 - 1864; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864

Michael Schwartz Collection of Army of the Republic of Vietnam Patches

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4158
Abstract

FIfty-five military (airborne) patches from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam

Dates: between 1955 and 1975

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: W-0050
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1861-1862

Monroe F. Cockrell research notes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1949-1956

Morgan Smith Gilmer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1954

Morris E. Boss letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Abstract

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

Dates: 1861 - 1865

James H. Mullen letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1029
Abstract

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

Dates: 1862 November 23

Myer L. Feldman Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Abstract

Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.

Dates: 1944-1945

Ely Naparstek Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2341
Abstract

Miscellaneous papers and photographs of PFC Ely Naparstek of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dates: 1938-1945

John M. Neel letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1038
Abstract

A printed transcript of a letter from Neel to the U.S. Secretary of War, describing a battle with Creek Indians near the Black Warrior River.

Dates: 1818 September 22

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Abstract

Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dates: 1876-1987

Oliver Jack Kaneft Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0795
Abstract

A collection letters from O. Jack Kaneft to his girlfriend, Teddy Love, who later became his wife. Many of the letters were written while Kaneft was a flight instructor for WWII fighter pilots at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1940 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1943

Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Abstract Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates: 1956

John M. Potter Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2483
Abstract

Personal letters addressed to John M. "Jack" Potter, a Private and later Private First Class in the United States Marines, during his duration on Parris Island, North Carolina.

Dates: 1944-1945

P.O.W. - M.I.A. Recognition Day papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3558
Abstract

P.O.W. - M.I.A. Recognition Day, 9 July 1982, State of Alabama Proclamation signed by Gov. Fob James.

Dates: 1982 July 9

William M. Pratt letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1163
Abstract

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

Dates: 1864 April 22

Proposals for the Reorganization of the Continental Army

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0353
Abstract

Proposals for reorganizing the Continental Army

Dates: 1777

William Radford letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1177
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1865 July 15

Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0163
Abstract

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

Dates: 1861-1887

Elmer E. Rhode Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2550
Abstract

Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

Dates: 1942 - 1943

Roland Lee Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract

This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.

Dates: 1891- circa 1919

Roy C. Corbell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0358
Abstract

Miscellaneous financial documents and copy of General Order No. 38-A, American Expeditionary Forces, February 28, 1919 (letter from General John J. Pershing to soldiers at the end of World War I).

Dates: 1919-1952

Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Abstract

Papers, primarily letters, of two Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, brothers, Samuel D. Cameron, 2nd Alabama Cavalry and Maxwell A. Cameron, 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, to their sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Isham Robertson, during the Civil War. Additional materials include financial documents and other family letters.

Dates: 1858-1884; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Robert Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4096
Abstract

The Robert Smith papers contain correspondence between Robert Smith and his family during his military training in 1942 and his deployment to England and France in 1944 during World War II.

Dates: 1942-1956

Sneed Comic Book Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PM-022
Abstract

Contains around 3600 comic books, graphic novels, and comic strip anthologies, 1940s-2010s.

Dates: 1937-2017

State of Louisiana troop expenses ledger

 Collection
Identifier: W-0067
Abstract

Expenses ledger for Louisiana state troops from 1862 to 1863.

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Roy and Sara Swindell Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2926
Abstract

Letters from Roy Swindell and Sara Swindell to their family, who lived in Chattanooga, and later Nashville, Tennessee. The letters discuss missing home, traveling for work, and Bible verses. One letter is from Sara to their son James, an officer in the armed services during World War II.

Dates: 1918-1935

"The Federal raid into central Alabama"

 Collection
Identifier: W-0040
Abstract

Text of a speech presented by James A. Anderson on April 3, 1935, at a meeting of the Kiwanis club of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Union raids in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1935 April 3

Thomas Haughey letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0648
Abstract

Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.

Dates: 1868 December 28

Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract

The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.

Dates: 1840-1862

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Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 1st 2
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Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry) 2
Sansom, Emma 2
Semmes, Raphael, 1809-1877 2
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Wallace, Lurleen 2
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Abernathy, Miles, Major 1
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Beltrone and Company 1
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Bibb, William Wyatt 1
Boss, Homer B. 1
Boss, Louisa M. 1
Boss, Morris E. 1
Brabner, Ian (Bookseller) 1
Brandon, William Woodward 1
Branscomb, James Alston 1
Brantley, William H. (William Henderson) 1
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell) 1
Brown, Wilburt Scott 1
Brown, William (Bill) 1
Bryant, Cherry 1
Bryant, Mary Harmon 1
Bryant, Paul W. 1
Bryce, Peter 1
Burnham, John 1
Callahan family 1
Cameron, Maxwell A. 1
Cameron, Samuel D. 1
Camp W. J. Hardee 1
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg 1
Carlisle, Proctor 1
Chamberlin, James 1
Chandler, Hatchett (William Temple Hatchett) 1
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