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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
P. H. McBride Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0938
Abstract
An 1863 letter from Columbia, Tennessee, to his wife and children, while serving in an unnamed Confederate regiment under General N. B. Forrest.
Dates:
1863
Peter Reeder Fortney Civil War Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4266
Overview
Peter Reeder Fortney (1843-1919) was a Union soldier from Ohio who fought in the US Civil War between 1862-1865. This collection contains two diaries he kept during 1864-1865, when his company served in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1865, 1915
Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
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...
Dates:
1956
William M. Pratt letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1163
Overview
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
Prison Bill of Fare Poem Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4319
Scope and Contents
One broadside of a poem written by a Union soldier held at the Confederate Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, on 8 November 1861. The poem describes the food provided and the ways it was prepared at the prison in satirical verse.
Dates:
1861-11-08
William Radford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1177
Overview
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
Overview
Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
Dates:
1861-1887
Samuel D. Risley Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4141
Overview
Papers documenting the military service of Samuel D. Risley and his brother John Risley in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Dates:
1822-1909; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1865
S. R. Norton letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1059
Abstract
Letters of a Union soldier in the 18th Michigan Infantry to his wife, written from Decatur, Stevenson, and Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil War.
Dates:
1864-1865
Charles B. Safford and Clara Safford Brooke Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4288
Overview
This collection contains letters to and from Illinois soldier Charles B. Safford, who served as a captain in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War, and his wife Clara Safford. Many of the letters date from the time of her second marriage to Thomas S. Brooke.
Dates:
1853-1886 and undated
Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Overview
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
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates:
1833-1889
Shelby Iron Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1261
Abstract
Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth...
Dates:
1862-1930
Hudson Strode Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1361
Overview
Hudson Strode (1892-1976) was a literature and creative writing professor at The University of Alabama from 1916-1963, and a writer of more than a dozen nonfiction books. This collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, artifacts, prints, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to his travels and literary career.
Dates:
1753-1986
Davis Tillson Battle Report for Second Bull Run
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4009
Overview
Report from Tillson to his commander, General Irvin McDowell, through McDowell's chief of staff, Colonel Edmund Schriver, about the Union's artillery in three actions of the second Manassas (Bull Run) campaign in 1862.
Dates:
1862 September 30
To the People of Alabama: anti-secession document signed by Robert Jemison Jr. and thirty-two other members of Alabama's 1861 secession convention
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3788
Overview
Document to the people of Alabama from thirty-three men at the 1861 secession convention explaining why they did not sign the Ordinance of Secession
Dates:
1861
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Alabama Division, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1472
Overview
This collection contains biographies of thirty-nine prominent Civil War-era figures from Alabama and correspondence to and from Mrs. Annie Daugette, chair of the committee in charge of the project.
Dates:
1938-1957
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
Alonzo Van Vlack papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract
Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.
Dates:
1864-1865
Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4273
Overview
A variety of materials related to the United States Civil War
Dates:
1861 - 1932
Wade Hall collection of illustrated envelopes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2218
Abstract
The collection contains illustrated envelopes donated by Dr. Wade Hall. The illustrations on the envelopes range from simple to highly ornate.
Dates:
1861-1968
Wallace Marshall manuscripts and research material
Collection
Identifier: W-0003
Overview
Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts related to "Tensas Doctor" and "Noise of Great Waters" by Marshall Wallace
Dates:
1947 - 1948
"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
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
William A. Howard Letter on Edwin M. Stanton
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4268
Overview
William Alanson Howard (1813-1880) was a member of the US House of Representatives between 1855 and 1861. This collection contains one seven-page letter written by Howard in 1870 to Attorney General Ebenezer Hoar refuting suggestions of disloyalty made against politician Edwin M. Stanton in regard to his conduct near the outbreak of the US Civil War.
Dates:
1870 February 7
William K. Bachman ordnance return and muster roll
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0101
Abstract
Monthly return of ordnance and ordnance stores received and expended during the month of November 1864; muster roll of Bachman's company of the German Artillery Regiment of Hampton's Legion, August 31-October 31, 1864.
Dates:
1864
Willie T. White papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1548
Abstract
Contains correspondence, photographs, financial records, and other materials, the majority of which are related to Willie T. White, who resided in Rockford, Birmingham, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1860-1970
Woods and Young families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1576
Overview
This collection contains a miscellany of material, including letters by Thomas Moore Woods, Company K, 16th Alabama Infantry; James M. Springfield, Company L, 24th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers; and G. W. Woods, 9th Alabama Cavalry, Selma. It also includes a collection of biographical abstracts of various Revolutionary soldiers and families; store receipts from Columbus and Caledonia, Mississippi, and Vernon, Alabama; land deeds; and church records from various congregations in Mississippi...
Dates:
1834 - 1918
Wright, Cotten, and Douglass Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1583
Abstract
This collection contains diaries, correspondence, and other materials related to four generations of this Tennessee/Alabama family.
Dates:
1798 - 1990
The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0305
Overview
Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others
Dates:
1861
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