War and Military
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 169 Collections and/or Records:
Unit Journal, the 3rd Battalion, 167th Infantry, 31st Infantry Division, July 15, 1944 - October 10, 1945, July 15, 1944 - October 10, 1945
File — Box 2903: [1005585033], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note
Sgt. Harold L. Bank kept this unit journal from July 15, 1944, until October 10, 1945, from Mindanao, Philippine Islands. It is the Battalion log of the 3rd Battalion, 167th Infantry, 31st Infantry Division. The division was located in the vicinity of Mafin Bay, Dutch New Guinea, along the southeast bank of the Worske River, and then moved to Morotai Island. On December 25, 1944, the 2nd Lieutenant of the 167th Infantry, James D. Spencer, has written an additional note concerning a night...
Dates:
July 15, 1944 - October 10, 1945
United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, No. 39, Birmingham, Alabama, records
Collection
Identifier: W-0048
Overview
Records of the United Confederate Veterans Camp W. J. Hardee, in Birmingham, Alabama, between 1906 and 1919.
Dates:
1906-1919
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Alabama Division, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1472
Overview
This collection contains biographies of thirty-nine prominent Civil War-era figures from Alabama and correspondence to and from Mrs. Annie Daugette, chair of the committee in charge of the project.
Dates:
1938-1957
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Centennial Chapter, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2401
Overview
Two scrapbooks, the meeting minutes, and charter application
Dates:
1961-2006
United States Army and ROTC Articles and Newspapers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4026
Overview
Articles and newspapers on the U.S. Army and ROTC programs at the University of Alabama.
Dates:
2001-2008
University of Alabama Army ROTC scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3925
Overview
This collection contains twenty-eight scrapbooks created by The University of Alabama Army ROTC program from 1953-1982. The number of photographs in each scrapbook ranges from three to 610. In addition to holding photographs of cadets, sponsors, and professors, the scrapbooks document activities such as commissioning ceremonies, training excursions, and balls.
Dates:
1953-1982
University of Alabama Corps of Cadets collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0029
Overview
A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.
Dates:
1873-1905
Victor Hugo Friedman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0545
Overview
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
Alonzo Van Vlack papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract
Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.
Dates:
1864-1865
Wade Hall Collection of World War II Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4253
Overview
Letters and documents to and from World War II soldiers and their families
Dates:
1940 - 1950
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.035: [1006241532]
Identifier: 2009-173
Abstract
This collection consists of seven photographs depicting people at Hanger One at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Dates:
1920 - 1929
Peyton Norvell Wiggins papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3706
Overview
Letters between Peyton Norvell Wiggins and his father and stepmother, Charles Ruben Wiggins Sr. and Elizabeth Toombs Wiggins.
Dates:
1942-1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1956
William Brantley, Hugh Comer, and Thomas Martin correspondence on the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Collection
Identifier: W-0060
Overview
Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)
Dates:
1948-1964
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 Jesse Robinett Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1624
Abstract
This collection consists of a handwritten original paper and typescript copy containing the names of family members and stories about the family's experience during Rousseau's Raid, July 10-22, 1864, in which a Union Army force raided from Decatur, Alabama, to the southward.
Dates:
1957
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
World War II letters collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3688
Overview
Collection of letters to and from service men and women during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1945
Wynne Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3918
Overview
Letters and papers of this Hale County, Alabama, family. Also included are autographed copies of Alice Coleman Griffin three books: Laura's Letters, Laura's and Her Children's Letters, and Laura's Family's Letters.
Dates:
1804-2009
Yuille Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1601
Abstract
A collection of correspondence, 1861-1865, and other personal papers, as well as bills, receipts, and orders of this bakery in Mobile, Alabama, operated by Gavin Yuille (?-1849) and his sons John C. and Robert Lang Yuille (1822-?). Includes the loyalty oath taken by John C. Yuille in 1865.
Dates:
1827 - 1871