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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

Abstract Two letters written from Aransas Pass, Texas, to a Mrs. Brown in October 1914, containing extensive reminiscences of the Warrior Guards (Company A of the Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment) and Fowler's Artillery Battery. Both units were organized at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dates: 1914 October

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Edward Maffitt Anderson Photographic Album

Collection

Identifier: 2009-219

Abstract Photograph album containing forty-seven Cartes de Visite belonging to Edward Maffitt Anderson, midshipman on board the CSS Alabama.

Dates: 1864

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

Edwin H. Abbott papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0001

Abstract Files relating to the "Alabama Claims" handled by this Boston attorney concerning damage inflicted by the Confederate commerce raider C.S.S. Shenandoah during the final months of the Civil War.

Dates: circa 1873-1883

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Charles Ellis diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2819

Overview Diary written by First Sergeant Charles Ellis of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The diary contains daily notes concerning regimental duty in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1865.

Dates: 1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Ellsworth Hults diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3735

Overview The diary of the paymaster's clerk aboard the USS Galena from February through November 1864. There is also a transcription of the diary and a photograph of Admiral James Forsyth "the tallest man in the American Navy, 6 ft 6."

Dates: 1864 February - November

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Five Certificates Attesting to the Service of African American Sailors during the Civil War

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4149

Overview The affidavits in this collection confirm the service of African American sailors during the Civil War

Dates: 1866-1869

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Free Military School for Applicants for Commands of Colored Troops

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4287

Overview This collection contains a twelve-page pamphlet from the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, in Philadelphia, describing the qualifications required of men applying to be officers of African American Union troops during the US Civil War.

Dates: 1863

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

Garner family letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0030

Overview Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.

Dates: 1832-1886

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

George Doherty Johnston Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4018

Overview Letters to and from this Confederate brigadier general.

Dates: 1845-1885

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

George Woodard and Gene Smith letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0112

Overview Letters between Union soldier George Woodard, Company D, Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and his fiancee Gene Smith, of Burnett, Wisconsin. Woodard served at the battle of Corinth and the Vicksburg Campaign. He died at a Memphis hospital in 1864.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

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

H. C. Harris letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0639

Overview Letter dated 2 November 1862, from Camp Forney, near Mobile, to his sister in Livingston, Alabama, discussing going into winter quarters, decrying the army and the plight of the common soldier, and vehemently expressing his wish for a substitute to take his place in the army during the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 November 2

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

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

Townsend Heaton letters

Collection

Identifier: W-0091

Overview Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War

Dates: 1861-1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0313

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

Dates: 1840-1925

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Henry Timrod papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1411

Abstract This collection contains letters, some of them Civil War related, and poems to Rachel Lyons, of Columbia, South Carolina, primarily from the period 1861-1863.

Dates: 1854-1940

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

Hestor L. Stevens Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4237

Overview The collection consists of twelve letters written by Hestor L. Stevens (1803-1864), a representative from Michigan, detailing his law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War.

Dates: 1860 - 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Holliman and Stewart families letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3749

Overview Civil War letters and miscellaneous documents of James Franklin Holliman and William Stewart, to and from their families between 1862-1911.

Dates: 1837-1936

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Sarah Huey, United Daughters of the Confederacy Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4072

Overview Sheet music, programs, and letters from various individuals with the UDC

Dates: 1930-1950

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Robert W. Hunter Field Order

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4008

Overview Field orders for a strategic withdrawal from Major Robert W. Hunter / AAAG (C.S.A.) at General Edward Johnson's headquarters to Colonel B.T. Johnson of Jones' Brigade

Dates: 1863 July 13

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

J. J. Magee diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3764

Overview Civil War diary of Captain J. J. Magee of Company D, Eighth Alabama Infantry.

Dates: 1861

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Thomas K. Jackson letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3814

Overview Letters written during his career in the Confederate Army as well as a letter of amnesty on his behalf from J. Longstreet to Ulysses S. Grant

Dates: 1844-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James A. Henderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0662

Overview Writings of James A. Henderson of the Twelveth Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment while stationed at Centre, Alabama, in December 1865.

Dates: 1865-12-1 - 1865-12-4

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James Boykin papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0196

Abstract Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James Chamberlin letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0294

Overview 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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James J. White regimental history of the Liberty Hall Volunteers

Collection

Identifier: W-0111

Overview Notebook containing a roster and brief history of Company I of the Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a regiment formed by students enrolled at Washington College (later Washington and Lee University).

Dates: 1860

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0431

Overview 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 1862.

Dates: 1861 - 1864

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Jones and Callaway Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-3031

Overview Family papers containing letters, a farm journal, and writings of members of the Jones and Callaway families in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida

Dates: 1845-1940; Majority of material found in 1860-1900

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Joseph Jermain Slocum Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4295

Overview Five letters written by this Union officer serving in Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.

Dates: March 26 - June 1, 1862

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

Chauncey Leonard Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4148

Overview Letter from an African American U. S. Army chaplain during the Civil War to the father of one of the soldiers at the hospital in Alexandria, Virginia

Dates: 1865 March 24

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letters to Lemuel P. Foss

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4304

Overview This collection contains letters sent to Lemuel P. Foss, a Union soldier during the US Civil War, from his family and friends in New Hampshire.

Dates: 1862-1865

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Letters to Marquis de Lafayette Lane

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4301

Overview This collection contains letters sent to Maine native Marquis de Lafayette Lane while he served as US consul to Veracruz, Mexico, a post he held from 1862-1867.

Dates: 1863 - 1867

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Macon and Miles Abernathy papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0003

Overview 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

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Captain Clarence Mauck Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSS-2878

Overview This collection contains four letters from Gravelly Springs, Alabama pertaining to ordinance returns and bills for Captain Clarence Mauck of the 4th U.S. Cavalry.

Dates: 1865

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

Mobile, Alabama, Confederate newspaper scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: W-0050

Overview 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

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

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

Calvin J. C. Munroe papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-1030

Overview Letters, a picture of Munroe, and an application for a Confederate pension

Dates: 1863-1914

Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

James Neff Civil War Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSS-4070

Overview Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.

Dates: 1864

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

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