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A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865

 Collection
Identifier: W-0083
Abstract

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

Dates: 1929

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

Rucker Agee papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0013
Abstract

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Dates: 1861 - 1977

Alabama Claims Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4160
Abstract

Historical documents relating to the Geneva Award claims

Dates: 1870-1886

Alabama historical documents collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0037
Abstract

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

Alabama Warriors speech text

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0053
Abstract

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

Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes

 Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Abstract

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

Dates: 1916

Alfred Morris diary

 Collection
Identifier: W-0115
Abstract

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

Dates: 1862 - 1863

Alfred Parmenter papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0153
Abstract

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

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

Allen Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0064
Abstract

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

Jonathon A. B. Allison letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0068
Abstract

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

Ambrose Doss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0446
Abstract 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

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

Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection

 Collection
Identifier: W-0160
Abstract

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

Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0077
Abstract

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

Dates: 1863 - 1887

Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0657
Abstract

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

Dates: 1864

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

Benton Bell Seat memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0013
Abstract

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

Donald Brown collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3690
Abstract

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

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...
Dates: 1862-04 - 1865-04

C. I. B. DeLage letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0156
Abstract

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

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

C. S. Phillips letter

 Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Abstract

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

Dates: 1865-04-18

Captain William McMicken Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4241
Abstract 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

Charles Mitchell War Between the States Lithograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3919
Abstract

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

Dates: 1861-1961

Charles Robinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: W-0161
Abstract

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

Dates: 1864 - 1865

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

Thomas P. Clinton letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Abstract

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

Dates: Unknown

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

Coleman and Truss family letters

 Collection
Identifier: W-0103
Abstract

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

Dates: 1860 - 1868

"Confederate memoirs," volumes II and III

 Collection
Identifier: W-0012
Abstract

Unpublished typescript of the memoirs of twenty Confederate soldiers

Dates: 1861-1865

Confederate Military History of Alabama

 Collection
Identifier: W-0056
Abstract

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

Dates: 1899

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

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0565
Abstract

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

Dates: 1862

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

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

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0351
Abstract

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

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

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0350
Abstract

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

Confederate stores ledger for Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi

 Collection
Identifier: W-0014
Abstract

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

Dates: 1862-1864

Confederate States Army, Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0349
Abstract

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

W.H.H. Cooper furlough

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0222
Abstract

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

Cowin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0364
Abstract 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

CSS Alabama partial muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3724
Abstract

Partial muster roll of the CSS Alabama.

Dates: after 1864 June 19

C.S.S. Tuscaloosa Logs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0251
Abstract

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

John E. Curry collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0386
Abstract

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

Curtis R. Burke journal

 Collection
Identifier: W-0063
Abstract

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

David Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4212
Abstract

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

William Davidson paper

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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

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

Donoho family papers

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Identifier: MSS-3704
Abstract

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

Dates: 1838-1914

Drury F. Dryden Civil War Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4381
Dates: 1865-01-01 - 1865-08-23

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