Abstract The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.

Overview 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...

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