Fort Morgan (Ala.)

Abstract

Letters written to other members of the Fort Morgan Historical Commission concerning the fort and Chandler's "Little Gems" project.

Scope and Contents This collection contains nine letters and two clothing receipts related to Confederate military service at Alabama's Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan during the U.S. Civil War. With the exception of a single receipt, the items are dated 1861, and most are one page in length. The first letter, from Artillery Captain A.B. Joiner, is addressed to General S.P. NeSmith, and notes Fort Morgan in the state's plan to join the Confederacy.Six letters are addressed to Alabama's...

Scope and Contents note From the Series: 107 photographs depicting ships and boats in the Gulf of Mexico; birds and dolphins; Walter Jones and other members of the Board of Conservation; Alabama State Port Authority patrol boats; ducks; Governor Frank M. Dixon; fishing; Fort Morgan, Alabama; World War I; Walter Jones and others in France; Prince's yacht on the water in Monaco; Gallery of Henry II in the Palace of Fountainebleau; fountain in Versailles; Camp Mills, New York; military camp in France; ships in the New York Harbor;...

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

100 photographs depicting fishing; Jones family; swords and Grecian rifle; Walter Jones barbecuing at Kiwanis Club; Camp A-Z in the Mobile Delta; Moundville Museum; snow at Walter Jones’s house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; shoreline at Gulf Shores; machinery at the Phelps’s; and ship graveyard in Tensas River at Hurricane Landing.