War and Military
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:
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
Joseph S. Huhn Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3217
Overview
Pocket diary of Civil War Union soldier, Joseph S. Huhn of Company "F" of the Ohio 114th Infantry, documenting daily activities between 1 January and 21 August 1865. The remainder of the diary is miscellaneous information and a series of exam questions.
Dates:
1865
Huston Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0724
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials created by the Huston family in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, and extended family in Mobile, Alabama. Most materials center around George Waring Huston, who was killed in World War One.
Dates:
1831-1937
Jack D. L. Holmes papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0001
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, journal articles, newspaper clippings, and maps of this professor and Alabama author.
Dates:
1963-1988
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
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
James H. McCleary Diary, Letter, and Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1610
Abstract
Collection includes a photograph, letter, and diary of a Civil War soldier from Pennsylvania, who died during the battle of Gettysburg.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
James Thomas Murfee Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1031
Abstract
Letters to L. C. Garland, President of the University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.
Dates:
1863 - 1864
Jeremiah Clemens letter, 1848 September 3
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.17
Scope and Contents
Jeremiah Clemens writes on September 3, 1848, to the Adjutant General of the Army in Washington, D.C., thanking him for sending his commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Ninth Infantry.
Dates:
1848 September 3
Jesse Griffin letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0597
Overview
A letter dated 5 September 1813, from St. Stephens, Alabama, to his parents, describing the Creek attack on Fort Mims during the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Dates:
1813 September 5
John Horry Dent, Jr., Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0431
Overview
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 1862.
Dates:
1861 - 1864
John R. Hodge Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0685
Abstract
Paper titled "An Editor Spends a Day with the Army,” [presented to the?] American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1942. Includes annotated photographs of editors visiting Governors Island, New York, HQ of Eastern Defense Command and First Army and photographs of defense drills somewhere on the East Coast.
Dates:
1942
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank: Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4010
Overview
Manuscript of Alexander Hunter's Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, his narrative of service in the Confederate Army, under the working title, "Four Years in the Ranks."
Dates:
1905
Thomas G. Jones Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3012
Overview
A collection of papers written by and related to Thomas G. Jones. Correspondence includes letters written about Jones' service in the Civil War and an open letter to B.B. Comer. Other papers are written about Jones.
Dates:
1864-1911
Joseph Wilbourn Young letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1596
Abstract
A collection of letters home from Europe, during and immediately after World War I.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
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
Francis William Kellogg Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2027
Abstract
One letter written by Francis William Kellogg to the secretary of the United States Navy recommending Malcolm Maurice Moore to the Naval School at Annapolis.
Dates:
1861 April 29
Kolb Family Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2132
Overview
John Frederick Kolb and Valentine Bruner Kolb were from Frederick County, Maryland, and fought for the Union in the Civil War. Valentine Kolb's letters to his family discuss battles, artillery, and prisoners; John F. Kolb's notification to enroll is included as well as a letter he wrote to his parents. Letters to their father are also included.
Dates:
1861 - 1868
John Lambert and descendants manuscript
Collection — Box 1758: [1006212575]
Identifier: MSS-0150
Abstract
Manuscript of Bethea's and Austin's book about this Revolutionary War soldier and his family. The book was published in 1978.
Dates:
circa 1978
Letter from Alexander Scammell
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4348
Scope and Contents
One letter from Alexander Scammell (1741-1781) to his brother describing some of the events of the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War. This two-page letter was written in approximately June 1778.
Dates:
1778-06
Andrew Lipscomb Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1818
Abstract
Includes one letter written by Andrew A. Lipscomb, president of the University of Georgia, to Benson J. Lossing and contains overt references to the contemporary political divisions between the North and South.
Dates:
1861 March 18
Macon and Miles Abernathy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0003
Overview
This collection consists Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.
Dates:
1861 - 1878
Maurice Hamner Garland Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1785
Abstract
Photocopies of letters, notebooks, and other documents created and received by Maurice Garland while serving in the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1863 - 1865
Meriwether Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2217
Abstract
Family letters written by Juliet Bestor Coleman, her daughter, Alice Coleman Meriwether, and her son-in-law, John Samuel Meriwether, between 1833 and 1864. The bulk of the correspondence is between Alice and her husband, John, while he was serving in the 38th and 40th Alabama Infantry Regiments during the Civil War.
Dates:
1833 - 1864; Majority of material found within 1862 - 1864
Michael Schwartz Collection of Army of the Republic of Vietnam Patches
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4158
Overview
FIfty-five military (airborne) patches from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Dates:
between 1955 and 1975
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
Monroe F. Cockrell research notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0330
Abstract
Research notes and synopses on Emma Sansom, General Pickett at Gettysburg, "The Bivouac of the Dead," and General Forrest's crossing of the Sipsey River, March 29, 1865.
Dates:
1949-1956
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
Morris E. Boss letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Overview
Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
James H. Mullen letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1029
Overview
A letter from Mullen to his family describng his troops' position in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1862 November 23
Myer L. Feldman Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Overview
Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.
Dates:
1944-1945
Ely Naparstek Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2341
Overview
Miscellaneous papers and photographs of PFC Ely Naparstek of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dates:
1938-1945
John M. Neel letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1038
Abstract
A printed transcript of a letter from Neel to the U.S. Secretary of War, describing a battle with Creek Indians near the Black Warrior River.
Dates:
1818 September 22
New accession: Box temp.86
File — Box temp 86
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Two letters from Macon at Tuscaloosa to his father and sister in Jacksonville, both dated 1861, discussing his denied requests for furloughs home, and a letter from his father, Miles, to his son in Tuscaloosa, encouraging him to return home to join a local company being raised to fight in the Civil War. The collection also includes an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles Abernathy.Addition received in 2012 includes one letter dated April 14, 1861, written by Macon to his...
Dates:
1861 - 1878
Newspaper, Chicago Daily Tribune, March 8, 1945, March 8, 1945
File — Box 2903: [1005585033], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note
This newspaper is the front portion of the Chicago Daily Tribune, from Tuesday, May 8, 1945. There is a “V. E. Day – Today” headline at the top of the paper.
Dates:
March 8, 1945
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Autograph Albums and Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3686
Overview
Autograph albums and diaries from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dates:
1876-1987
Notes from History of the Confederate States Navy
File — Box WSC002: [1006241709], Folder: W0150-10
Scope and Contents
These handwritten notes are taken from J. Thomas Scharf's History of the Confederate States Navy. This history of the service which includes information about the ships and many of the officers is still highly regarded as a primary source for this type of information.
Dates:
1860 - 2007
Oliver Jack Kaneft Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0795
Abstract
A collection letters from O. Jack Kaneft to his girlfriend, Teddy Love, who later became his wife. Many of the letters were written while Kaneft was a flight instructor for WWII fighter pilots at the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1940 - 1943; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1943
Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2565
Overview
Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in...
Dates:
1956
John M. Potter Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2483
Overview
Personal letters addressed to John M. "Jack" Potter, a Private and later Private First Class in the United States Marines, during his duration on Parris Island, North Carolina.
Dates:
1944-1945
P.O.W. - M.I.A. Recognition Day papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3558
Overview
P.O.W. - M.I.A. Recognition Day, 9 July 1982, State of Alabama Proclamation signed by Gov. Fob James.
Dates:
1982 July 9
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
Proposals for the Reorganization of the Continental Army
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0353
Overview
Proposals for reorganizing the Continental Army
Dates:
1777
William Radford letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1177
Overview
Original and typed copy from Radford to Lieutenant Commander T. C. Harris, discussing a possible attempt to rescue Jefferson Davis, a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.
Dates:
1865 July 15
Reuben Oscar Reynolds Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0163
Overview
Correspondence and records of military service (photocopies) of Reuben O. Reynolds of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
Dates:
1861-1887
Elmer E. Rhode Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2550
Overview
Bernice Shelly writes from Tracy and Oakland, California, to P.F.C. Elmer E. Rhode, stationed in San Francisco, California, about her work as a waitress and at a factory to aid the war effort. A third letter makes a third-party reference to an encounter with Elmer Rhode written by Fred Kimball of San Francisco, California, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Payne of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Dates:
1942 - 1943
Roland Lee Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0011
Abstract
This collection includes documents related to the army service of this York, Alabama, native; an essay; a biographical sketch; and three miscellaneous letters.
Dates:
1891- circa 1919
Roy C. Corbell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0358
Overview
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
Samuel D. Cameron and Maxwell A. Cameron Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0264
Overview
Papers, primarily letters, of two Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, brothers, Samuel D. Cameron, 2nd Alabama Cavalry and Maxwell A. Cameron, 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment, to their sister, Sarah, and brother-in-law, Isham Robertson, during the Civil War. Additional materials include financial documents and other family letters.
Dates:
1858-1884; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864
Robert Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4096
Overview
The Robert Smith papers contain correspondence between Robert Smith and his family during his military training in 1942 and his deployment to England and France in 1944 during World War II.
Dates:
1942-1956