Collections | Special Collections & Archives

L.O. Brackeen paper

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0451

Overview Paper titled Enoch Hooper Cook, Sr., of Wilcox County, Alabama, presented to the Alabama Historical Association by Mrs. Ralph Draughon.

Dates: 1962 April 26

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Thomas Dudley letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0452

Abstract A letter dated 9 July 1862, to S. Price Edwards, Collector of Customs at Liverpool, regarding a gunboat (C.S.S. Alabama) being built in the yard of Mssrs. Laird. Holograph copy.

Dates: 1862 July 9

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

Durst Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0461

Overview Letters, newspapers, and miscellaneous documents from the Durst family. There is also a World War One era panoramic photograph and United Stated Service, or Blue Star Mother's flag.

Dates: 1708-1977; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1868

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

S.W. Eddins appointment letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0474

Overview Letter dated 1 September 1864 appointing S. W. Eddins of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to the University of Alabama's Alabama Corps of Cadets.

Dates: 1864 September 1

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Lovelace Foster letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0538

Overview Typescript copies of a lengthy and detailed letter from Foster during the siege of Vicksburg, to his wife, begun before communications were cut off and continued at intervals throughout the siege (June 1863) until the city's surrender to Union forces on 4 July 1863.

Dates: 1863 June 20

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Fulton letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0547

Overview Typescript copy of a letter dated 12 April 1865, written by Fulton to his sister, Mrs. Theodora Fulton Pettus, describing the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, to Union forces.

Dates: 1865 April 12

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Bird Griffin papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0596

Overview Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.

Dates: 1805-1885

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Vernon Grosse collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0599

Overview Collection of pre- and post- Civil War letters and genealogies (all photocopies), as well as minutes for the New River Baptist Church, in Fayette County, Alabama, from 1826-1911.

Dates: 1801-1911

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary M. Hallowell letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0612

Overview Letters written to Mary Hallowell from various government officials in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, regarding her request for help for "refugees" from Tennessee during and immediately after the Civil War. These refugees were Tennessee residents who had remained loyal to the Union and had moved farther north during the War.

Dates: 1864-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W. F. Hanby pension application

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0616

Overview Application, dated 8 July 1907, filed in Jefferson County, Alabama, for a Confederate veterans' pension.

Dates: 1907 July 8

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

Marie Giles letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0569

Overview Letter dated 8 August 1864 to her cousin, a soldier in the Confederate Army, discussing interruptions in railroad service, provisions for the army, and poor people at home.

Dates: 1864 August 8

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Morgan Smith Gilmer papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0571

Overview 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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James A. Goble diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0574

Overview 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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Alfred Hoke papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0688

Overview A tax-in-kind form for the estimate and assessment of agricultural products

Dates: 1864-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Harris family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0640

Overview Includes typewritten copies of letters written between James William and Robert Harris, both serving in the Confederate States Army, and their family in Marengo County, Alabama.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Richard Norfleet Harris papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0641

Overview Miscellaneous papers related to Confederate military service, including a pension application and muster roll of Capt. Lovelace's Company of Light Artillery.

Dates: 1865-1907

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

W. Stuart Harris papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0643

Overview Papers and manuscript drafts of this Alabama author.

Dates: Unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Keyes Family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0813

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1846-1944

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

King family papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0817

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

Dates: 1803-1894

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Porter King papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0820

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

Dates: 1860s

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Cabot Lull papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0884

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1816-1935; Majority of material found within 1852 - 1912

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Albert B. Moore papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1013

Overview 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.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Mary Pickens Opie papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1073

Overview 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.

Dates: 1887-1946

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Henry W. Reese Jr. papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1184

Abstract Contains a letter by Reece describing his arrival in Vicksburg; a letter from William Garrard to H. F. Reese about his brother Henry; and a paper written by H. F. Reese about his brother's life.

Dates: 1863-1905

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

O.M. Roberts reminiscences while a student of the University of Alabama

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1199

Abstract 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.

Dates: 1892

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Private Rosser's Colt

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1363

Overview 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.

Dates: unknown

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

David Crockett Stuart memoir

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1364

Abstract A copy of Stuart's 1913 memoir, which discusses his early life, Civil War service in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry Regiment, and his move to Utah in 1872.

Dates: 1913

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letter from Sue to Sallie

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1369

Abstract A letter by an unknown author, to her sister Sallie, discussing war news, known wounded, and attitudes towards the war.

Dates: circa 1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Paul Turner Vaughn diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1496

Abstract Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.

Dates: 1863-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"Campaigns of Wheeler and his cavalry, 1862-1865, from material furnished by Gen. Joseph Wheeler; to which is added his concise account of the Santiago Campaign of 1898", edited by W. C. Dodson.

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1545

Overview "Campaigns of Wheeler and his Cavalry 1862-1865 from material furnished by Gen. Joseph Wheeler to which is added his concise and graphic account of the Santiago Campaign of 1898, Published under the auspices of Wheeler's Confederate Cavalry Association and edited by W. C. Dodson, Historian" Contains tipped in pages of handwritten annotations by G. K. Miller.

Dates: 1899

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James White, Obadiah White, and Jesse A. Justice letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1547

Overview A collection of letters written by James White to his mother and father, describing the fortifications at Tullahoma, Tennessee; others from White's son Obadiah White to his mother, relating clothing needs and rumors of troop movements; and from Jesse A. Justice to his wife, relating camp news, the incidence of sickness, and rumors of movement.

Dates: 1862-1863

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Glenn House papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2292

Overview Materials from the book arts project of Hamilton M. Woodon's 1863 poem Chicamauga.

Dates: 1988

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Centennial Chapter, papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2401

Overview Two scrapbooks, the meeting minutes, and charter application

Dates: 1961-2006

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

McAdory and Huey family papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0069

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

Dates: 1863 - 1929

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War

Collection

Identifier: W-0071

Overview Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.

Dates: 1863 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Adam H. Whetstone diary

Collection

Identifier: W-0080

Overview Contains the diary of Confederate soldier Adam H. Whetstone of Prattville, Alabama

Dates: 1864 - 1865

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

Morris E. Boss letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0078

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

Dates: 1861 - 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

William Quayle correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1176

Abstract Letters written from the First Frontier District of Texas, of which Quayle was commander, providing information on Confederate military dispositions, 1862-64. Quayle's correspondents included James Bourland, H. E. McCulloch, and James Webb Throckmorton.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

"The Federal raid into central Alabama"

Collection

Identifier: W-0040

Overview 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

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

Oliver T. Reilly papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0158

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

Dates: 1906-1930

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

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

Edward Vernon archive of Co. F, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Collection

Identifier: W-0157

Overview Papers documenting the history of Co. F of the Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, including Company demographics and rosters, obituaries, and hand-drawn maps of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863.

Dates: 1883 - 1918

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

Montgomery, Alabama, hospital records ledger

Collection

Identifier: W-0031

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

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Platt Waller papers

Collection

Identifier: W-0085

Overview Contains photographs, correspondence, and typescript speeches written by diplomat George Platt Waller. Also contains a small journal and receipts related to his father's medical practice.

Dates: 1894 - 1895; 1952 - 1961

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

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