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Prisoner of war -- Alabama

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Former Prisoners of War Benefits Act of 1981

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-3458
Abstract

Framed copy of the Former Prisoners of War Benefits Act of 1981, inscribed to Jeremiah Denton, Senator from Alabama who had been a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese for seven years and seven months during the Vietnam War

Dates: 1981 January 5
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Fort McClellan Internment Camp Photographic Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-002
Abstract

This collection consists of one photographic album containing 129 silver gelatin prints portraying life at Fort McClellan, Alabama—one of four major prisoner of war camps in the state—in June 1943. Private Charles W. Christopher of the Military Police Escort Guard, a branch of the United States Army, collected and arranged the images into the album.

Dates: 1943
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections

Nathaniel C. Kenyon Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0809
Abstract

Contains a photocopy of a typescript of the diary this Union officer with the 11th Illinois Infantry kept from before and during his capture in Tennessee. He provides fairly detailed descriptions of life as a prisoner of war in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and other southern cities.

Dates: 1862 - 1865
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections