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Military records

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300027822

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

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

Barrie Lucien Holt papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0692
Abstract

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

Benjamin Franklin Whittemore record book and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: W-0077
Abstract

Record book of Chaplain Benjamin Franklin Whittemore of the Fifty-Third Massachusetts, describing the military service of its members

Dates: 1863 - 1887

James C. Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0137
Abstract

A miscellaneous collection of Civil War material of this Union soldier from Indiana, including enlistment lists, muster roles, war songs, writings, drawings, a diary, genealogical information, and clippings. All materials are photocopies of originals.

Dates: circa 1862-1899; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1869

Bogy and Smith Families genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract

A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.

Dates: undated

Peter Bryce collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0226
Abstract

A small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888

Dates: 1859-1888

Chief Surgeon's General Order No. 107

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0306
Abstract

General Order No. 107 from Chief Surgeon S. Cooper's office in Richmond, Virginia, modifies an earlier order delineating medical officers' reasons for issuing medical furloughs for soldiers.

Dates: 1862 December 17

Confederate States Army, Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0349
Abstract

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.H.H. Cooper furlough

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0222
Abstract

A furlough dated 13 December 1861, issued to W. H. H. Cooper, a private in Captain D. L. Patterson's Company, 20th Mississippi Volunteers for the period 13 December 1861 to 12 January 1862.

Dates: 1861 December 13

Jere Clemens Dennis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0428
Abstract

Personal, family, and business papers of a Tallapoosa County attorney, including legal case files as well as Sons of Confederate Veterans, Alabama National Guard, and Masonic materials.

Dates: 1841-1935

Richard Norfleet Harris papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0641
Abstract

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

Ralph Murray Havens papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0650
Abstract

Diaries, letters, and other papers related to Havens's service in the European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945.

Dates: 1943-1946

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

James Boykin papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract

Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870

Josiah and Amelia Gorgas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0580
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Josiah Gorgas, chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance and president of the University of Alabama, and his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, librarian at the University of Alabama and daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle.

Dates: 1820-1920

John Kerr Little papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0866
Abstract

The John K. Little collection contains papers and memorabilia of John K. Little - a member of a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pioneer family, and himself a long time resident of Tuscaloosa.

Dates: 1937 - 1947

Roy C. Corbell papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0358
Abstract

Miscellaneous financial documents and copy of General Order No. 38-A, American Expeditionary Forces, February 28, 1919 (letter from General John J. Pershing to soldiers at the end of World War I).

Dates: 1919-1952

Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.

Dates: 1833-1889

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

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

William K. Bachman ordnance return and muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0101
Abstract

Monthly return of ordnance and ordnance stores received and expended during the month of November 1864; muster roll of Bachman's company of the German Artillery Regiment of Hampton's Legion, August 31-October 31, 1864.

Dates: 1864