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Alabama. Governor (1857-1861 : A.B. Moore). Military correspondence, 1860-1861.

Title: Military correspondence, 1860-1861.

This series consists of Gov. A.B. Moore's military correspondence from 1860 to 1861, containing correspondence, reports, legislative acts and resolutions, financial statements, receipts, and petitions. An act approved 1860 Feb. to "provide for the efficient military organization of the state" greatly expanded the Governor's military authority. The act established a Military Commission composed of the Governor, Adjutant and Inspector General, and Quartermaster General, and provided for a volunteer corps of eight thousand men. Much of the correspondence is from volunteer companies which after organizing and electing officers, sought the Governor's official recognition in order to draw pay and receive equipment. Also included is correspondence from county sheriffs and judges of probate in compliance with a law requiring them to locate and collect state-owned military equipment which had fallen into private hands. A great deal of correspondence concerns James R. Powell's efforts to purchase arms for the state in Washington, D.C., Richmond, Va., New York, N.Y., New Haven, Ct., and Chickapee, Mass. One of the most frequent correpondents is Duff C. Green, Moore's Quartermaster General. Topics discussed by them include the occupation by Ala. troops of the U.S. Army Arsenal at Mt. Vernon, and the capture of Forts Morgan and Gaines. Included is a copy of a letter by Moore to U.S. President James Buchanan in which Moore offers an explanation for the occupation of the Mt. Vernon Arsenal. Also included is correspondence between Moore and Fla. Gov. M.S. Perry, concerning the use of Ala. troops to aid in the capture and occupation of U.S. forts near Pensacola, Fla. Present also is correspondence with members of the government of the Confederate States of America, such as Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, C.G. Memminger, L.P. Walker, and Thomas Hill Watts; with military officials such as Braxton Bragg and Tennent Lomax; with Ala. business leaders such as Daniel Pratt and Josiah Morris; and with state political leaders such as William Brooks, A.B. Meek, George S. Houston, Jeremiah Clemens, Edmund W. Pettus, Percy Walker, George Goldthwaite, and Rufus W. Cobb. Of particular interest is a group of letters forwarded to Moore 1861 July and Aug. from sheriffs, judges, and private citizens concerning public demonstrations of pro-Union sentiment by many people in Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Blount counties. As evidence of sedition are several letters from "Unionists" and "Lincoln men" who attempted to dissuade their friends and relatives from supporting the Confederate war effort.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.5 cubic ft. (1 archives box).Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81455638 View

State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama. Records 1875-1986.

Title: Records 1875-1986.

The State Democratic Executive Committee records, 1875-1986, document over a century of virtual single party politics in Alabama. The records provide detailed information concerning election practices, political campaigns, party solidarity/dissension and race relations. The records not only reflect on politics within the state, but provide information relating to Alabama's role in national politics. The records, primarily the correspondence, minutes and printed materials, provide valuable information on many topics such as white supremacy, state's rights, civil rights, election manipulations and the many schisms within the party. The primary correspondents include committee officers and various state, local and national committee members and political figures. The records also provide detailed information about the more routine areas of the committee's responsibilities. A substantial portion of the collection consists of candidate files, election records, campaign materials, and records of contested elections. These records illustrate the manner in which the committee assisted and qualified candidates, supported political campaigns, and executed special and primary elections. The records of each administration were generally maintained independently from the records of previous administrations, except in instances. Where the chairman served more than one term. Several of the administrations were poorly documented. The bulk of the materials date from 1919 to 1951 and from 1959 to 1963.

ArchivalResource: 34.67 cubic feet. (104 archives boxes and 2 oversized boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122498763 View

Alabama. Governor (1857-1861 : A.B. Moore). Administrative files, 1857-1861.

Title: Administrative files, 1857-1861.

This series consists of Gov. A.B. Moore's administrative files, containing correspondence, reports, legislative bills and resolutions, oaths, bonds, petitions, proclamations, and financial records. Topics discussed include banking, railroads, prisons, education, taxes, slaves, abolition, states' rights, secession, and preparations for military defenses. Included are financial statements from railroad companies receiving donations of land and low-interest state loans for railroad construction; charters, bond agreements, and quarterly financial statements of banks; letters to Moore from the Comptroller's office of the U.S. Dept. of Treasury regarding the balance of the two and three percent funds accruing from the sale of public lands within the state; reports on conditions at the State Penitentiary; and correspondence with public officials and private individuals concerning the developing sectional crisis in national politics. Included is correspondence to Peter Bryce and James Searcy at the Ala. Insane Hospital; reports from engineer John T. Milner about a survey of the mineral district near Elyton, Jefferson Co. (Ala.); reports from Dr. Thomas Mason, physician at the State Penitentiary; and a request from Benjamin Fitzpatrick for copies of Smith's Alabama Justice. There is a large amount of correspondence regarding bank loans to the state to help finance the war. Banks frequently mentioned are Central Bank of Ala., Eastern Bank of Ala., Southern Bank of Ala., and the Bank of Mobile. There are a number of letters to Moore from Howell Cobb, Sec. of the U.S. Treasury, concerning sums of money from the three percent fund that were loaned to railroads. Railroads frequently mentioned are the Tennessee and Coosa, the Ala. and Florida, the Ala. and Tennessee River, and the Selma and Gulf Railroad. Significant items in the series include correspondence between Moore and S.C. Gov. W.H. Gist regarding the 1860 June Democratic Convention in Charleston, S.C., and the appointment of delegates to a convention of Southern States; letters from Edmond W. Pettus, I.W. Garrott, John A. Winston, and John Gill Shorter in their capacity as commissioners of Ala. to other slaveholding states. A letter to Moore from U.S. Congressman J.L.M. Curry discusses the Dred Scott decision, Stephen A. Douglas, William Seward, and states' rights. Correspondence with Edward C. Bullock, Septimus Cabaniss, Tennent Lomax, and Robert Livingston concern the election of Abraham Lincoln, the election of delegates to the Ala. Secession Convention, and efforts to establish direct trade between Ala. and foreign countries. Also present is a letter from Alfred C. McKeen about his invention for lifting ships over sand bars, the blueprints of which are contained in an oversized folder.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.5 cubic ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized box).Copies: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78390306 View

Alabama. Board of Inspectors of Convicts. Administrative correspondence, 1881-1897.

Title: Administrative correspondence, 1881-1897.

Administrative correspondence documents the administration of a department or division, and tends to deal with matters that have an impact on the program areas that the department or division is mandated to carry out. This series consists of the administrative correspondence of the Board of Inspectors of Convicts and its predecessor agency, the Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary, between 1881 and 1897. The bulk of the series covers the years from 1883 to 1897 when Reginald Heber Dawson served as president of the board. The series consists of eighteen volumes: five letterbooks containing letters to the board and thirteen letterpress copybooks containing letters from the board. Most volumes are individually indexed. The letterbooks containing incoming letters are extremely fragile. The majority of the series consists of reports to Dawson from Inspectors W. D. Lee and A. T. Henley concerning their inspections of conditions of prisons, mines and farms where prisoners were leased; classification and medical reports from prison physicians Shirley Bragg and Russell M. Cunningham; and reports from prison chaplain Evan Nicholson. A significant amount of correspondence deals with personal and political matters of concern to Dawson, particularly the gubernatorial aspirations of himself and his brother, N. H. R. Dawson. Other correspondents include: Ala. Governors Rufus Wills Cobb, Edward Asbury O'Neal, Thomas Seay and Thomas Goode Jones; State Democratic Executive Committee members Henry Clay Tompkins, Edmund W. Pettus and Tennent Lomax; Ala. Penitentiary Warden and later U. S. Representative John H. Bankhead, and prison reformer Julia Strudwick Tutwiler.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cubic ft. (18 volumes contained in 1 oversized box, 2 records center cartons, and 2 microfilm cases).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122381526 View

Alabama. State Bar Association (1879- ). Photograph collection, 1879-1915.

Title: Photograph collection, 1879-1915.

This collection contains photographs of members of the Ala. State Bar Association which was chartered and given corporate powers by the Ala. state legislature in 1879 to govern the practice of law in Ala. and its code of ethics. The thirty-eight photographs are mounted on approximately fifteen by nine inch mat board with three to five photographs per board. Each photograph is identified and the member's years with the association are given. The mat boards at one time made up one large board before being cut into smaller sections. The boards each have chalk drawings of the Bar Association's seal. The photographs and board were processed by Tresslar's of Montgomery, Ala.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122439007 View

State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama. Records, 1875-1986.

Title: Records, 1875-1986.

Minutes, 1890-1930, contains bound volumes and folders on state and local level meetings. The subject files, 1930-1932, include lists of county election officers, candidates and public opinion polls. Administrative files, 1932-1938, are made up of copies of election laws, expense accounts, and correspondence. Also included in these files are candidacy files, which contain correspondence of individuals declaring their candidacy for public office, and vacancy files which contain plans for filling posts which became vacant through death or resignation. The remaining files are the administrative files of Gessner McCorvey and E. W. Pettus. The files are made up of correspondence and county status files. The county status files contain lists of county committee members, election results and general information concerning the Democratic party in those areas. These records also contain the hearing transcript of the contested Democratic primary of 1986.

ArchivalResource: 30 cubic ft. (30 records center boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122388469 View