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Soldiers -- Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Lamar Aldridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0059
Overview Letters home written while Aldridge was in training in Georgia and then serving in France during World War I.
Dates: 1917-1919
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Lamar Aldridge papers

Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2356
Overview Correspondence, photographs, diary, books, stationery set, newspaper clippings, and dog tags of Andrew William Johnson Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, during the 1940s, before and after he was in the Army.
Dates: 1940-1949
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Andrew William Johnson Jr. Papers

John Taylor Banks diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0109
Abstract Diary of druggist who served in the 6th Alabama Regiment. Also includes a biographical sketch and a coroner's report signed by Banks.
Dates: 1862-1893
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John Taylor Banks diary

Eleanor Drenth Dodson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4165
Overview Letters written in the 1940s to Eleanor ("Ellie" or "Elly") Drenth Dodson of Portland, Oregon, and San Diego, California, from her mother, Mabel Anderson Drenth, who lived in Fresno, California.
Dates: 1942 - 1946
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Eleanor Drenth Dodson Letters

Everett B. Andrews Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4170
Overview Letters describing camp life written by Everett B. Andrews to his sister Lillian in St. Albans, Vermont, while he was stationed on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas after Allied forces captured it in 1944.
Dates: 1945
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Everett B. Andrews Letters

William Lovelace Foster letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0538
Overview Typescript copies of a lengthy and detailed letter from Foster during the siege of Vicksburg, to his wife, begun before communications were cut off and continued at intervals throughout the siege (June 1863) until the city's surrender to Union forces on 4 July 1863.
Dates: 1863 June 20
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / William Lovelace Foster letter

Gordy Brule Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4166
Overview Letters written by and to Gordon "Gordy" Brule who served in the 447th Bomb Squad World War II.
Dates: 1943 - 1949
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Gordy Brule Letters

John C. Higgins postcard

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2438
Overview Contains one postcard from Private First Class John C. Higgins thanking the Attleboro War Chest of Attleboro, Massachusetts for a Christmas package. The date posted on the card is 28 October 1943.
Dates: 1943
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / John C. Higgins postcard

Ann Hollis letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-1789
Abstract Letters, postcards, and telegrams from World War II pen pals to this former Montreat College student and resident of Headland, Henry County, Alabama.
Dates: 1943-1946
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Ann Hollis letters

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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Howell F. Hayslette Letter and Photograph

Abner E. Patton Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4056
Overview Letters from a Confederate soldier in the Eleventh Alabama Infantry to his family.
Dates: 1861-1953
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Abner E. Patton Letters

Redden-Lancaster Families World War II Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4163
Overview Letters from Lloyd D. (Don) and Sergeant Glen C. Redden, and Robert Lancaster to the Redden's sister and brother-in-law and Lancaster's brother and sister-in-law, Barbara and James Lancaster. The letters illustrate the similar and differing experiences the men had during the war and depict a soldier's life from basic training to deployment.
Dates: 1941 - 1945
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Redden-Lancaster Families World War II Letters

Wade Hall Collection of Military Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4256
Overview The Wade Hall Collection of Military Materials contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials related to American soldiers stationed on military bases and ships in the United States and around the world.
Dates: 1783-1970
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection of Military Materials

Wade Hall Collection of World War I Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4251
Overview Letters and documents to and from American World War I soldiers and their families
Dates: 1908-1978
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Wade Hall Collection of World War I Materials

William A. Lyle Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-4164
Overview Letters written by William A. Lyle from 1943 to 1946, primarily to his mother in New York City, while he was serving in the United States Naval Reserves at the U.S. Naval bases in Maryland, California, and Hawaii, during World War II.
Dates: 1943 - 1945
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / William A. Lyle Letters