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McMillan, Malcolm Cook, 1910-. Papers, 1865-1988.

Title: Papers, 1865-1988.

Book and article manuscripts; research notes and materials; subject files; photographs for McMillan's book, Yesterday's Birmingham (1975); files from McMillan's tenure as chairman of the Department of History; microfilm copies of research material; personal papers; and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 222 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24896205 View

Harris, A.S. Letter, 1859.

Title: Letter, 1859.

Letter, 1859 May 14, from Harris, probably in Madison Co., Ala., to an unidentified Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala., judge. Discusses personal matters, political matters, such as the "ultra" political position of a Mr. Mitchell, the upcoming presidential election, the petition to Governor A.B. Moore to pardon Mr. Spotswood, a lawsuit, and crop conditions in Madison Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407826 View

Hudson, James G., b.1832. Canebrake Rifle Guards diary, 1861.

Title: Canebrake Rifle Guards diary, 1861.

The diary, kept by James G. Hudson from 1861 May 21 to 1861 Oct., traces the movements of the Canebrake Rifle Guards of the 4th Alabama Infantry to Harper's Ferry, Martinsburg, Manasses Junction, and the Battle of First Bull Run. Hudson observes and discusses various aspects of camp life, including troop movements, the obtaining of supplies and provisions, soldier morale, and various camp incidents. Of prime importance is Hudson's detailed description of First Bull Run and the events befalling the Rifle Guards, including the loss of their officers, several instances of Northern trickery, and the 4th Ala.'s role in the Southern victory.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Andrew B. Moore Letter ., 1860

Title: Andrew B. Moore Letter 1860

Consisting of a letter from GovernorMoore to North Carolina Governor John W. Ellis, the Andrew B. Moore Letter, 1860,introduces his representative, Robert H. Smith, and proposes urgent discussionconcerning the southern reaction to the possible election of Abraham Lincoln to theU.S. presidency.

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Gist, William Henry, 1807-1874. William Henry Gist papers, 1851-1948 ; bulk (1858-1862).

Title: William Henry Gist papers, 1851-1948 ; bulk (1858-1862).

Chiefly letters from southern governors replying to his inquiry re secession in event of Lincoln's election and military correspondence during the Civil War; also including document re first secession crisis of 1850-1851. Including letter, 18 Oct. 1860, from John W. Ellis, Raleigh, N.C., re divided public opinion about election of Abraham Lincoln; letter, 25 Oct. 1860, A.B. Moore, Montgomery, Ala., re options to protect the interests of the slave-holding states; letter, 26 Oct. 1860, from John J. Pettus, Macon, Ga., re support for secession in Georgia and the need to prevent the "black Republicans" from controlling the state. Also inlcluding 6 letters, 1859-1860, Executive Department, Anderson Court House, Anderson, S.C., and Unionville, S.C., to Gen. James Simons re election of speaker of the S.C. House of Representatives, dispute with Capt. Daly of the Meagher Guards over supply of rifles from the state arsenals, and question of court martial for Simons in connection with the Rifle Regiment. Letter, 22 Apr. 1859, Columbia, S.C., to Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, in Mass., re fugitive slave law of Massachusetts; 7 letters, 15 Feb. 1860-24 June 1860, Unionville and Charleston, S.C., to Major P[eter] F[ayssoux] Stevens, Superintendant of the Citadel, Charleston, S.C., re an order for guns for various military companies. Memorandum, 23 June 1862, to Col. James Chesnut, re new foundry in South Carolina for manufacture and repair of cannon and firearms, fueled with coal from Tennessee; letter, 3 Oct. 1862, Columbia, S.C., from S.C. Department of Construction and Manufactures, to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, requesting reassignment of three soldiers, Alex[ande]r Knight, Ja[me]s Knight, and W[illia]m Burke, from Palmetto Battalion, Co. D, to the foundry for production of guns and ammunition in Greenville District, S.C. Earlier material includes certificate, 13 Dec. 1858, re Gist's election as governor, signed by Franklin J. Moses, President of the S.C. Senate, and James Simms, Speaker of the House; address, 1851, of the Southern Rights Association of the University of Virginia to the Young Men of the South, re condemnation of the north and the need to secede.

ArchivalResource: 39 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39193610 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Todd, John B. Correspondence, 1861.

Title: Correspondence, 1861.

Correspondence, 1861 Jan. 3-4, between Todd in Mobile, Mobile Co., Ala. and Ala. Governor A.G. Moore in Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala. Consists of telegrams from Moore to Todd, ordering him and the First Volunteer Regiment to occupy both Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines, and to take possession of the U.S. arsenal at Mt. Vernon, all of which were located in Ala. Moore explained these were precautionary measures to protect Ala., and not "an act of hostility towards the Federal Government". A letter of the same date from Moore explains his reasoning for occupying the forts and arsenal in greater detail. There is also a letter, 1861 Jan. 4, from Todd, in Fort Morgan, to Gov. Moore, in Montgomery, reporting the successful completion of his mission, and the general conditions of the forts. These actions occurred before the Ala. secession convention began meeting.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Robinson, Armstead L. Papers of Armstead Robinson [manuscript], ca. 1964-1995.

Title: Papers of Armstead Robinson [manuscript], ca. 1964-1995.

Personal and academic papers include letters, manuscripts and typescripts, computer printouts, student papers, research materials, audio tapes, lectures and memorabilia. Much of the research material, notes, manuscripts and typescripts concern his posthumously published study "Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-65." Early material focuses on his effort to design an undergraduate black studies program at Yale University from which he received his B.A. degree. Other subjects include: African-American history; African-American life in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, 1840s-1880s; life as an African-American student at Yale University during the 1960s; the development of Black Studies during the 1960s; life as an African-American faculty member at the State University of New York (SUNY), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Virginia during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s; slavery in the Confederacy; the nineteenth century American South, especially during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and the modern Civil Rights Movement. Prominent correspondents include, but are not limited to: Herbert Aptheker; Molefi Kete Asante; Ira Berlin; Arna Wendell Bontemps; McGeorge Bundy; LaWanda F. Cox; Merle Curti; Stanley L. Engerman; John Hope Franklin; Eugene D. Genovese; Henry Louis Gates Jr.; A. Bartlett Giamatti; Herbert Gutman; Vincent Harding; Nathan Hare; Ron Maulana Karenga; August Meier; Nell Irvin Painter; Robert Brent Toplin; C. Vann Woodward; and Whitney Moore Young Jr. Prominent persons as subjects or otherwise mentioned in the collection include: Reginald Butler; Robert R. Church [Robert Reed Church, Sr.]; Eldridge Cleaver; Harold Cruse; Philip D. Curtin; St. Clair Drake; Drew Gilpin Faust; Robert W. Fogel; Martin Kilson, Jr.; James Armistead Lafayette; Alan Lomax; William Shockley; Charles Harris Wesley; Bell Irwin Wiley; and Carter G. Woodson. Correspondents among Robinson's University of Virginia colleagues include: Edward L. Ayers; William A. Elwood; Edwin E. Floyd; Matthew Holden, Jr.; Michael F. Holt; Ervin L. Jordan, Jr.; Robert O'Neil; Nathan Alexander Scott, Jr.; Jeanne Maddox Toungara; and Theresa M. Towner. At least two other faculty members, Vivian V. Gordon and Paul L. Puryear, are correspondence subjects. A folder, "Robinson Family Letters," includes items and letters concerning Armstead Robinson's father, Rev. Dewitt Peter Robinson, and a birthday card from his mother, Mrs. Ruth Dickinson Robinson. Among the special and unique items: a "Buy Black" bumper sticker; signed (autopen) photograph of William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, 42nd President of the United States; "Lay This Laurel" (a preliminary script for the 1989 Civil War film "Glory"); National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution application of Robinson as a possible descendant of Virginia slave-spy James Armistead Lafayette; select photocopies and transcripts of correspondence of Alabama's three Civil War governors (Andrew B. Moore, John Gill Shorter, and Thomas Hill Watts); a photocopy of a 1863 slave pass for a nine-year-old slave girl issued by the mayor of New Orleans; Tennessee census microfilm (1850, 1870 and 1880); Freedmen's Bureau marriage registers, savings and trust signature books; Union Army runaway slave registers; two drawings of Carter G. Woodson (the Father of Black History); and audiotapes of one of first Black Studies symposia ever held in the United States (Yale University, 1968). Oversize items include maps, lecture and conference posters, certificates, Booker T. Washington National Monument exhibit plans, and a black and white numbered reprints set: "Images of Afro-Americans of the Emancipation Era" (Liverpool, New York: Hodges Publications).

ArchivalResource: 42.8 cu. ft.

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Moore, Andrew B., 1807-1873. Andrew B. Moore Letter, $f 1860.

Title: Andrew B. Moore Letter, $f 1860.

Consisting of a letter from Governor Moore to North Carolina Governor John W. Ellis, the Andrew B. Moore Letter, 1860, introduces Moore's representative, Robert H. Smith, and proposes urgent discussion concerning the southern reaction to the possible election of Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Benson family. Papers, 1803-1936; (bulk 1820-1860).

Title: Papers, 1803-1936; (bulk 1820-1860).

Personal correspondence and business papers of the related families of Elias Benson, physician, of Marion Co., Ala., and John Ford Thompson, officer of the Alabama Militia. The families emigrated from Greenville and Spartanburg counties, S.C., to Alabama. Also includes papers of the family of Gov. Andrew Barry Moore of Alabama, official correspondence between commanders of the Alabama Militia (1836-1840), letters reflecting conditions in Alabama during the Civil War, several letters on medical education at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), and letters from students describing Greenville College (now Tusculum College) and the University of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: 864 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19241644 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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McClintock family. Land records, 1859-1914.

Title: Land records, 1859-1914.

This collection of land records includes three deeds signed by President James Buchanan for William R. Craig and James McClintock; three deeds signed by Ala. Governor A. B. Moore for James McClintock and one deed for George McClintock signed in the Philippines.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543319 View

Hubbard, David, 1792-1874. David Hubbard papers, 1807-1871.

Title: David Hubbard papers, 1807-1871.

Papers, predominantly incoming correspondence, of David Hubbard. Includes correspondents such as John C. Calhoun, James K. Polk, D.H. Lewis, Nicholas Biddle, Clement Claiborne Clay, Richard K. Crallé, Ephraim H. Foster, William R. King, Andrew B. Moore, J.A. Nooe, and Henry A. Wise. Topics include land transactions and national as well as Tennessee and Alabama politics. Correspondents frequently mention the national bank, slavery, economic problems of the country, Democratic and Whig politics, the elections of Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, and Abraham Lincoln, and black Republicanism. Sale of Indian lands in Alabama and Mississippi involving Hubbard's Chickasaw Company in the 1830s and 1840s is also frequently mentioned. Family correspondence features letters of George Campbell Brown, Lizinka Campbell Brown Ewell, Eliza Campbell Hubbard, and Rebecca Stoddert Hubbard. Land records, accounts, and legal documents round out the collection.

ArchivalResource: 240 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27089240 View

Benson-Thompson family. Benson-Thompson family papers, 1803-1936 ; (bulk 1820-1860).

Title: Benson-Thompson family papers, 1803-1936 ; (bulk 1820-1860).

Personal correspondence and business papers of the related families of Elias Benson, physician, of Marion Co., Ala., and John Ford Thompson, officer of the Alabama Militia. The families emigrated from Greenville and Spartanburg counties, S.C., to Alabama. Also includes papers of the family of Gov. Andrew Barry Moore of Alabama, official correspondence between commanders of the Alabama Militia (1836-1840), letters reflecting conditions in Alabama during the Civil War, several letters on medical education at the University of Louisiana (now Tulane University), and letters from students describing Greenville College (now Tusculum College) and the University of Alabama.

ArchivalResource: 864 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122476512 View

Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873. Archives of the War: circular, ca.1880.

Title: Archives of the War: circular, ca.1880.

Archives of the War, ca.1880, one page circular printed on silk, including an introductory paragraph on patriotism to the Confederate effort by the Hayneville Examiner; a letter, 1861 Jan. 21, from Watkins Phelan, secretary to Gov. A.B. Moore, in Montgomery, Montgomery Co., Ala., to George N. Gilmer, in Tallassee, Tallapoosa Co., Ala., expressing the governor's thanks; and another letter of 1861 Jan. 21, from Gov. A.B. Moore, in Montgomery, to George N. Gilmer, in Tallassee, notifying him that the Ala. Legislature enacted a resolution praising him, Joel E. Mathews of Dallas Co., and Alexander Davidson of Perry Co., for volunteering the labor of their slaves in the defense of Ala.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441315 View