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Soldiers -- Alabama -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Lamar Aldridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0059
Abstract

Letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I.

Dates: 1917-1919

Alston Fitts Letters and Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0520
Abstract

Letters from this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, physician to his wife and children before and after he was shipped to France during World War I, as well as a photograph of Fitts.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Ambrose Doss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0446
Abstract Collection contains letters written by Ambrose Doss of Jefferson County, Alabama, to his wife, Sarah Brake Doss while he was in Co. C of the 19th Alabama Regiment from the time of his enlistment in 1861 until his death on 1864 July 5 near Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia. There is also a letter from Lt. J. W. Rouse, dated 1864 July 6, to Sarah telling her of Ambrose’s death and burial. There are several miscellaneous documents including a short biographical sketch of Doss and a booklet titled...
Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

Peyton B. Bibb papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0153
Abstract

Documents, mainly letters written to or by Peyton B. Bibb. There are also receipts and minutes from unidentified meetings. There is also a copy of the “Complete Rudiments of Music” by A.J. Showalter (©1906) with the name “George Bibb” written on the front cover and on the first page.

Dates: 1886–1906

Jefferson Carroll Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4232
Abstract

World War II letters, scrapbook, and genealogical materials

Dates: 1884-1945

Robert Court Fletcher World War I Correspondence and Dog Tags

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4151
Abstract

Sixteen letters and postcards from this World War I soldier to his sister in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dates: 1918-1919

John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1861 - 1864

Victor Hugo Friedman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0545
Abstract

Personal and official correspondence, photographs of a camp in the Alps, lieutenant's commission, Croce al Merito di Guerra, and various items issued by the military to this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native.

Dates: 1918

Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4273
Abstract

A variety of materials related to the United States Civil War

Dates: 1861 - 1932

Ethel Gardiner Wiggins V-mail and Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4123
Abstract

V-mail and letters to a World War II soldier from his wife back home in Florence, Alabama.

Dates: 1941-1944