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"To Arms in the Valley" program and script
Collection
Identifier: W-0152
Overview
Program, cast list, and script of To Arms in the Valley, an historical play about the Civil War set in northern Alabama and presented by the Tennessee Valley Historical Society and the Colbert-Lauderdale Civil War Centennial Commemoration Committee in 1961.
Dates:
1961
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
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
James Neff Civil War Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4070
Overview
Diary of Union soldier during the final year of the Civil War.
Dates:
1864
Paul Turner Vaughn diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1496
Abstract
Civil War diary of a soldier from Marengo County, Alabama. It contains entries describing camp life, marching, and fighting in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia; including the Battles of Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain.
Dates:
1863-1864
A Georgia Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Collection
Identifier: W-0083
Overview
Contains an unbound manuscript of Robert Duncan Chapman's published Civil War memoir.
Dates:
1929
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
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
C. S. Phillips letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0155
Overview
Letter detailing the movement of Union forces following the surrender of Mobile, Alabama, in April 1865.
Dates:
1865-04-18
Bell I. Wiley Civil War articles collection
Collection
Identifier: W-0160
Overview
A variety of reprinted and clipped articles from various journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as bibliographical and general notes, discussing the Civil War from many angles, including medical, literary, restitution, and even specific battles and generals.
Dates:
1859 - 1979
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
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
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
Private Rosser's Colt
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1363
Overview
Photocopy of a typescript paper titled "Private Rosser's Colt" on the history of a Colt pistol carried by Henry Preston Rosser in the Civil War as a member of Shockley’s Independent Escort Company, from Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
David Crockett Stuart memoir
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1364
Abstract
A copy of Stuart's 1913 memoir, which discusses his early life, Civil War service in the Fourth Alabama Cavalry Regiment, and his move to Utah in 1872.
Dates:
1913
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
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
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
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
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
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
Samuel Ledford Civil War Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4236
Overview
Samuel Ledford (1828-1863) served as a private for the Confederacy in the US Civil War as part of the North Carolina 55th Infantry Regiment. This collection consists of fifty letters Ledford wrote to his wife Lucinda from May 1862 to June 1863 while his regiment was engaged in campaigns throughout North Carolina and Virginia.
Dates:
1862-1863
J. R. John Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0756
Abstract
Typescript copies of 1863 letters, written from Selma to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, concerning John's efforts to stop cadets from leaving the University to fight in the Civil War, and on preparations for the defense of Tuscaloosa.
Dates:
1863
Robert A. Patterson Civil War Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4334
Scope and Contents
This collection of six letters to family members was written by Robert A. Patterson, who was traveling with Company F of the 57th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry through Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama between 1862-1864. The letters describe the unit's actions and movements, interactions with locals, and encounters with enslaved persons escaping slaveholders.
Dates:
1862 - 1865
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
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
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
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
David Holmes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4212
Overview
Collection of two diaries, two sketchbooks, six letters, and other items created by Sergeant David Holmes (1841-1864) of the 20th Michigan Infantry. The materials provide insight into the rigors of daily life for an Civil War soldier
Dates:
1858-1864
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
Alfred Parmenter papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0153
Overview
Letters written by Alfred A. Parmenter, a member of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, describing battles and camp life in the South to his parents
Dates:
1861 - 1862
"Valor on the Eastern Shore": typescript
Collection
Identifier: W-0151
Overview
Typescript copy of B. L. Roberson's unpublished "Valor on the Eastern Shore."
Dates:
1965
William Nazareth Mitchell Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1003
Abstract
Typescript and illustrations for the book, "Civil War Letters of William Nazareth Mitchell," edited by his grandson, William C. Etherton. The letters were written to Mitchell's wife, Rachel Caroline Mitchell, while he was serving in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and north Alabama. The original letters are at the University of Illinois, Carbondale.
Dates:
1862
The Daily Citizen newspaper
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3556
Overview
The last issue of this Vicksburg, Mississippi, newspaper printed on July 2, 1863.
Dates:
1863 July 2
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
"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
Joseph Murrell letterbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0084
Overview
Letterbook containing the correspondence of Mobile cotton broker Joseph Murrell, dated from June to October 1861.
Dates:
1861
Curtis R. Burke journal
Collection
Identifier: W-0063
Overview
Typescript of Curtis R. Burke's Civil War journal which includes daily entries from October 1862 to June 1865. Notable journal entries include descriptions of John Hunt Morgan's raid into Ohio in July 1863, and accounts of conditions in prison camps in Indiana and Illinois.
Dates:
1971
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
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
Albert Taylor Goodwyn Alabama secession essay and notes
Collection
Identifier: W-0037
Overview
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Dates:
1916
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
Thomas P. Clinton letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0319
Overview
Letters about the burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865, which Clinton witnessed as a young boy.
Dates:
Unknown
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
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
James A. Goble diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Overview
Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1862-1863
Shelby Iron Company correspondence during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: W-0071
Overview
Correspondence, contracts, and receipts related to the production of iron at the Shelby Iron Works from 1863-1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
Confederate States Army, Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0349
Overview
A miscellany of materials pertaining to the 38th Virginia Infantry Regiment, including muster rolls of Company A, a special order naming hospital stewards, a certificate of disability, and a list of payment and clothing issued.
Dates:
1862-1864
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
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