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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 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