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Early University of Alabama Administrative Records
Record Group
Identifier: RG-001
Overview
The record group contains many early extant records of The University of Alabama and includes materials documenting a wide range of functions, persons, and aspects of the University.
Dates:
1820 - 1920
University of Alabama Corps of Cadets collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0029
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.
Dates:
1873-1905
"In Honor of the Cadets who Loyally and Courageously defended Tuscaloosa during Croxton's raid April 4th, 1865, and all those University Students who served" Print
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4193
Overview
Framed print listing the names of the University of Alabama Cadets who were part of the defense of Tuscaloosa in 1865.
Dates:
unknown
Alice and Algernon Sydney Garnett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0561
Overview
Letters written by Alice Garnett and her husband Algernon Sydney Garnett, a professor at the University of Alabama, discussing, among other things, the hardships of travel, news of the university, its professors, and their wives, the election of a new superintendent of education, and a rebellion by the University Cadets against the commandant.
Dates:
1850-1873
John Gill Shorter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1267
Overview
Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1872
W. E. Spraggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1327
Overview
Contains the note books of his work as an engineer in Nashville, Tennessee, two books on engineering, photo cards from the Sigma Nu fraternity in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an invitation to the University of Alabama, Alabama Corps of Cadets on July 5, 1876.
Dates:
unknown
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
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
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