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Roland Lee Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract
This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1891- circa 1919
C.S.S. Tuscaloosa Logs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0251
Overview
Portions of the logs for the C.S.S. Alabama and the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa. The logs document the daily weather, longitude and latitude as well as information about engagements with enemy ships. There is also a list of ships captured by the Alabama from 5 September 1862 to 20 June 1863 and copies of the correspondence between Lieutenant John Low as captain of the C.S.S. Tuscaloosa and various authorities of the British colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Dates:
1862–1864
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview
Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates:
1876-1987
Benjamin J. Gaston Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3915
Overview
Letters written by Benjamin J. Gaston, who served as a first lieutenant with the Independent 2nd Battalion Alabama Volunteers and as a private in the 10th Alabama Cavalry.
Dates:
1859 - 1865
Wynne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Overview
Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.
Dates:
1804-2009
Emmett Dendy World War II Air Mission Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3922
Overview
World War II air mission diary used by a ball turret gunner with the Eighth Air Force's 467th Bomb Group flying B-24s, to record his 22 air missions, from 24 February to 25 April 1945. Each entry includes information about the target, bomb load, bomb run, flak, time, gas, and altitude. He also included remarks concerning each mission.
Dates:
1943-2010; Majority of material found in 1945 - 1945
University of Alabama Army ROTC scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3925
Overview
This collection contains twenty-eight scrapbooks created by The University of Alabama Army ROTC program from 1953-1982. The number of photographs in each scrapbook ranges from three to 610. In addition to holding photographs of cadets, sponsors, and professors, the scrapbooks document activities such as commissioning ceremonies, training excursions, and balls.
Dates:
1953-1982
Sneed Comic Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: PM-022
Overview
Contains around 3600 comic books, graphic novels, and comic strip anthologies, 1940s-2010s.
Dates:
1937-2017
United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: W-0048
Overview
Records of the United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, in Birmingham, Alabama, between 1906 and 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
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
Collection of Alabama governors materials
Collection
Identifier: W-0054
Overview
Correspondence, certificates, programs, and other documents signed by twenty-six Alabama governors serving between 1820 and 1970.
Dates:
1820-1970
E. W. Tarrant letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1383
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
John F. Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1404
Abstract
This collection consists principally of correspondence concerning the Alabama Militia, 1836-1839, and records of the 14th Brigade, Alabama Militia, 1837-1839.
Dates:
1836-1839
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
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
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
Jesse Griffin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Overview
A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Dates:
1813 September 5
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
Meriwether Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2217
Abstract
Family letters written by Juliet Bestor Coleman, her daughter, Alice Coleman Meriwether, and her son-in-law, John Samuel Meriwether, between 1833 and 1864. The bulk of the correspondence is between Alice and her husband, John, while he was serving in the 38th and 40th Alabama Infantry Regiments during the Civil War.
Dates:
1833 - 1864; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864
Huston Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.
Dates:
1831-1937
Thomas Hubbard Hobbs diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0683
Abstract
The collection contains diaries of an Alabama lawyer, planter, and legislator from Athens, Limestone County, Alabama. Included is a three-month diary from 1862, when Hobbs was Captain of Co. F., Ninth Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The diaries also cover his time as a legislator representing Limestone County, Alabama; his support for the railroads; and his work on the family plantation.
Dates:
1840-1862
Barrie Lucien Holt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0692
Overview
Contains the papers of Barrie Lucien Holt, covering his life as a capitalist, planter, financier, and quartermaster general of the Alabama National Guard. Holt was an organizer and majority shareholder in the Prattville Cotton Mills and Banking Company, as well as a partner in D. M. Snow and Company.
Dates:
1841-1950
Herbert J. Taylor Jr. Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2652
Overview
Correspondence between Major Herbert J. Taylor, Jr. (Battery 13, 136th Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces) and his wife, Roberta Dorsey Taylor of Columbus, Ohio, from 1917 to 1920.
Dates:
1917-1920
Andrew Lipscomb Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1818
Abstract
Includes one letter written by Andrew A. Lipscomb, president of the University of Georgia, to Benson J. Lossing and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
Dates:
1861 March 18
World War II letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Overview
Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1945
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0657
Overview
Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
Dates:
1864
Howell F. Hayslette Letter and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0654
Overview
Letter and photograph, from Hayslette in Conde, France, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Dates:
1919-01-06
John R. Hodge Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0685
Abstract
Paper titled "An Editor Spends a Day with the Army,” [presented to the?] American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1942. Includes annotated photographs of editors visiting Governors Island, New York, HQ of Eastern Defense Command and First Army and photographs of defense drills somewhere on the East Coast.
Dates:
1942
George S. Smith Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1607
Abstract
Civil War diary of George S. Smith, sergeant in Company C of the 48th Ohio Regiment, covering his service in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Texas, 1863-65.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
Maurice Hamner Garland Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1785
Abstract
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
Alice A. Lide Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0127
Abstract
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a paper titled "Franklin K. Beck," by Alice A. Lide, recounting his life and accomplishments. It is based largely on secondary sources.
Dates:
undated
C. N. Henkle Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0664
Abstract
A letter dated January 1878, to Mrs. J. Avery, detailing Henkle's involvement in Croxton's Raid, a spring 1865 Union Army foray into west Central Alabama, and the Union seizure of Tuscaloosa in April 1865.
Dates:
1878-01
B. L. Holt correspondence on the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion
Collection
Identifier: W-0044
Overview
Holt's correspondence between May and June 1908, relating to his duties as quartermaster general in securing hotels accommodations and horses for Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and members of his staff who participated in the veteran's parade and other reunion events.
Dates:
1908
Myer L. Feldman Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Overview
Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.
Dates:
1944-1945
Joseph Wilbourn Young letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract
A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Axalla John Hoole Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0698
Abstract
This collection consists of a manuscript written by W.S. Hoole, read to the Darlington Historical Society, October 7, 1967.
Dates:
1856 - 1967
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
Drayton Doherty Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1641
Abstract
This collection pertains principally the World War One service of Dr. Drayton Doherty (1893-1969) of Selma, Alabama. It contains more than sixty letters from Doherty to his parents during his service in France, in which he served as a medical officer, chiefly with the British Second Army. Other items in the collection include some official correspondence relative to Doherty’s military service, a miscellany of personal papers, and three photographs.
Dates:
1910 - 1927
Tuskegee Airmen Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1446
Abstract
Photocopied articles, clippings, press releases, programs, membership rosters, and memoirs relating to the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of men who participated in the first pilot training program for African-Americans during World War II.
Dates:
1983 - 1989
Douthitt scrapbook materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0399
Overview
Material, mostly photocopies, from a nineteenth-century scrapbook. The most significant item is a pencil sketch of the Rotunda on the campus of The University of Alabama.
Dates:
1865 - 1877
Benjamin Rice Holt Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0159
Overview
Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.
Dates:
1860 - 1939
Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0006
Abstract
This collection consists principally of correspondence among members of the Adams Family, the majority of which concerns the Confederate service of a son, who wrote many letters detailing army life and conditions. It also contains papers related to Homer and John Adams, prisoners of war who died before returning home, and an Adams Family history by Irving Adams, dated December 18, 1948.
Dates:
1849 - 1926; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1865
Alabama Air National Guard letter of authorization
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0014
Abstract
A photocopy of a memorandum to the commander to the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing of the Alabama National Guard, authorizing transport of non-military personnel, including Governor George C. Wallace, from Montgomery to Tuscaloosa and back on April 30, 1963. Includes signatures of passengers on a waiver form.
Dates:
1963-04-30
Andrew Dawson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1626
Abstract
Contains correspondence and other material relating to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native's service in Europe during World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
William Jesse Robinett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1624
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.
Dates:
1957
James H. McCleary Diary, Letter, and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1610
Abstract
Collection includes a photograph, letter, and diary of a Civil War soldier from Pennsylvania, who died during the battle of Gettysburg.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
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
United States Army and ROTC Articles and Newspapers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4026
Overview
Articles and newspapers on the U.S. Army and ROTC programs at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
2001-2008
Alex Van Hoose Davies family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0402
Overview
Photocopies of the family history of an early northwest Alabama family, one of whom became mayor of Birmingham in the 1890s. There are also some personal recollections of the Union Army raid on Tuscaloosa led by John T. Croxton in April 1865, augmented with notes by grandson Alexander Van Hoose Davies, as well as copies of memorials of various Van Hoose men, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1925-1980
William George Forsyth collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3697
Overview
Forsyth's United States Army Air Corps World War II era dress uniform and an article about his dog.
Dates:
circa 1941
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