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Alabama. Governor. Correspondence, 1821-1865.

Title: Correspondence, 1821-1865.

This series consists of letterbooks containing copies of letters to and from the Governor, 1821-1849, 1861-1865. Most of the copies are of outgoing letters, though some incoming letters are also included. Some of the letters are routine in nature and may have been written for the Governor by the Secretary of State. Many of the letters concern important administrative decisions or express the opinion of the Governor on controversial subjects. Included are letters of Governors Pickens, G. Moore, S. Moore, Murphy, Gayle, Clay, Bagby, Fitzpatrick, Martin, Chapman, Shorter and Watts. Topics discussed include slavery, public lands, banks and banking, the militia, Indian affairs, internal improvements, surveys of boundary lines with Ga. and Fla., social welfare, state finances, the 1840s war with Mexico and the Civil War. Of particular interest are Gov. Gabriel Moore's views on prison reform, Gov. Gayle's position on the removal of white settlers from Creek Indian lands in 1833, the removal of the Cherokee Indians from the state, Ala.'s participation in the Mexican War, and the Civil War. The bulk of the Governors' incoming correspondence is described in the various series of each Governor's administration. The 1861 Dec. 5-1863 May 12 letters are indexed alphabetically by correspondent's name.

ArchivalResource: Originals ca.3 cubic ft. (8 volumes and 1 archives container).Copies 2 microfilm reels.

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Alabama. Governor (1849-1853 : Collier). Appointments files, 1849-1853.

Title: Appointments files, 1849-1853.

The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. One of the activities used to accomplish this function is the appointing of individuals to various state and local offices and the signing of grants and commissions. This series includes recommendations and petitions supporting candidates for appointive office. The series also consists of letters of resignation from public officials to the Governor and official certificates of appointment to an office. Various offices are discussed in the series including justice of the peace, probate judge, and land office agent. There are also numerous letters of recommendation for chancellor of the University of Alabama. Other materials of note are letters between the Governor and John Gill Shorter concerning his appointment to a circuit court judgeship.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft. (1 archives box).

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Alabama. Salt Commission. Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

Title: Commissioner's vouchers, 1862-1865.

This series contains vouchers issued and received by State Salt Commissioners Abner G. McGehee and Benjamin M. Woolsey from 1862 to 1865. The vouchers document a variety of expenditures incurred during the construction of the State Salt Works in Clarke County; the payment of wages to overseers, blacksmiths, brickmasons, engineers, wagonmasters, and clerks; the purchase of foodstuffs, livestock, and fodder; the monthly hire of slaves, mules and wagons; and freight charges for transporting salt and provisions by riverboat, railroad, and wagon. A significant number of vouchers are for the hire of slaves to work at the Salt Works. The vouchers include the name of the slaveholder and often the names of the slaves hired. Some slaveholders mentioned are Mrs. William Lowndes Yancey, Capt. Thomas Brown, Mrs. Mary Peacock, Mrs. Mary Harwell, T.G. Forster, T.B. Bethea, and M.W. Garrison. A large number of vouchers are for persons who sold cast iron to the Salt Works, among them are James R. Powell, C.B. Boutwell, J. Hobbie, C.L. Lucas, R.C. Bolling, Joseph A. Green, and J.M. Harbin. Included are a large number of vouchers for freight and passage on riverboats such as the Clipper, the Demopolis, the Virginia, the Senator, the Coquette, the Flirt, the Alice Vivian, the Jeff Davis, and the Robert E. Lee. Also included are railroad invoices from the Alabama and Florida, the Mobile and Great Northern, and the Montgomery and West Point Railroads. Also included are invoices from the Battle House and the LaFayette House, hotels where the Commissioners frequently stayed during trips to Mobile.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft. (1 records center carton).

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Alabama. Salt Commission. Assistant Quartermasters' quarterly reports, abstracts, and vouchers, 1861-1864.

Title: Assistant Quartermasters' quarterly reports, abstracts, and vouchers, 1861-1864.

This series contains quarterly reports, abstracts of expenditures, and vouchers prepared by the assistant quartermasters for Quartermaster General Duff C. Green, who was responsible for the distribution of salt in Alabama during the Civil War. The series covers the period from 1861 to 1864, with the bulk of the records for the year 1862. Quarterly reports indicate the quantities of salt delivered to county salt agents and private companies. Abstracts of expenditures are monthly and quarterly statements of the costs incurred during the storage, transportation, and distribution of salt. Vouchers and receipts document the authorized transfer of salt by the Quartermaster General to his assistants and by them to the persons in their jurisdiction. A large part of the records are those of Assistant Quartermaster William R. Pickett who was responsible for salt distribution at Montgomery. Of particular interest are the reports of Assistant Quartermaster Joseph A. Bradford from the salt works at New Iberia, La., and those of Alexander Snodgrass and James A. Speed, who were responsible for securing transportation of salt to north Alabama from Saltville, Va. Also included are letters and memoranda to the assistant quartermasters from Ala. governors, John Gill Shorter and Thomas Hill Watts, and from salt commissioners, Abner G. McGehee and Benjamin M. Woolsey.

ArchivalResource: 7 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441922 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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Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872. John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862.

Title: John Gill Shorter correspondence, 1862.

ALS (1862 April 4) from Shorter to Col. Tennent Lomax concerning military organization, recruiting, and location of camps in Alabama, the defense of Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., and public support of the Civil War; and ALS (1862 May 2) from Shorter to F. W. Pickens, governor of South Carolina, relating to conscription, manufacture of arms and amunitions, Confederate finance, and Shorter's commitment to the Confederate cause.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980457 View

Beauchamp, A. H. (Andre Hamille). Andre Hamille Beauchamp letters, 1863 Mar. 6-22.

Title: Andre Hamille Beauchamp letters, 1863 Mar. 6-22.

Letters written at Port Hudson to his wife, Margaret, in Eufaula, Ala., mention his service in the infirmary corps; the scuttled ship Indianola and the Essex; Vicksburg, Miss.; federal deserters; rumors of impending attacks; lack of pay; and his letter to Alabama's war governor, John Shorter. He gives a brief description of an attack by enemy gunboats. Beauchamp notes that he is tired of war and hopes for an honorable close to it.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70294193 View

Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

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Landon Cabell Garland letters MSS. 0558., 1861-1865

Title: Landon Cabell Garland letters 1861-1865

Letters concerning the affairs of the University and the Corps of Cadets from this University of Alabama president (1854-1865).

ArchivalResource: 2.2 Linear feet; (2.2 linear feet, 140 items)

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

Title: Appointments files, 1857-1861.

The Governor of Ala. is responsible for making appointments to various state and local offices and for signing grants and commissions. This series consists of correspondence relating to appointments, resignations, commissions, and special elections. The majority of applications are for appointments of notaries public and justices of the peace. Other appointive posts included are: Commissioner of Seeds for Ala. in other states; Agent for the Detection of Swamps and Overflowed Lands; Warden of the State Penitentiary; Commissioners of Pilotage for the Bay and Harbor of Mobile; attorney to settle the boundary line between Ala. and Ga.; and temporary appointments of county sheriffs and probate judges until an election could be held. Of particular importance are the letters recommending the appointment in 1858 of a General Superintendent of Public Schools. Among the applicants for the office are Noah K. Davis of Howard College, Jonathan Dunklin of Dallas Academy, M.F. Woodruff of the University of Ala., and William F. Johns of Tuskegee Classical and Scientific Institute. Included is a letter from John Gill Shorter recommending the appointment of William F. Johns. A petition in favor of the appointment of Robert S. Lewis to the office of Supt. contains the signatures of Lewis E. Parsons and Robert Jemison.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 10.5 folders (1 archives box).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82964479 View

Alabama. Governor (1861-1863 : Shorter). Pardons, paroles, and clemency files, 1862-1863.

Title: Pardons, paroles, and clemency files, 1862-1863.

The Governor of Alabama was authorized by the Constitution of 1819 to grant reprieves and pardons in all criminal and penal cases, except those of treason and impeachment, and to remit fines and forfeitures. This series consists of correspondence, petitions, reports, affidavits, copies of indictments, pardons, and other documents relating to pardons of crimes, paroles form sentences, and remission of fines imposed. Offenses include larceny, assault and battery, manslaughter, and murder. Individuals seeking clemency include Robert Wynn, Nathan Mahoney, Philomon Franklin, William Burnham, Jeremiah McCarty, Thomas and Madison Wheeler, and Pomp, a slave from Lowndes Co. Of particular interest is the case of Robert Wynn, doorkeeper of the provisional Congress, who had been convicted of assault with intent to murder. Among the papers relating to Wynn is a petition for his pardon signed by C. J. Clark, David Clopton, J. L. M. Curry, and W. P. Chilton, and a letter from Wynn's victim, A. R. Smith, which states that he and Wynn had compromised their differences and made friends. There are a number of letters, petitions, and affidavits on behalf of Berney, a slave convicted in Dallas Co. of murdering Benjamin Harper, an overseer on Robert Jones' plantation.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.2 cubic ft. (3 folders).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78894810 View

Alabama. Salt Commission. Quartermaster General's quarterly reports and abstracts, 1862-1864.

Title: Quartermaster General's quarterly reports and abstracts, 1862-1864.

This series contains quarterly reports, abstracts of expenditures and receipts, and vouchers of salt transactions by Duff C. Green, Ala. Quartermaster General and responsible for the distribution of salt in Ala. during the Civil War. The series covers the period from 1862 to 1864, with the majority of the records from the year 1863. Included are reports of salt received, transferred, and sold; abstracts of salt transferred to county agents and probate judges; abstracts of agents' commissions; abstracts of money received from agents; statements of persons exempted from military service; statements of deposits into the State Treasury; transportation rolls, which give the date of shipment, means of conveyance, place of embarkation and destination of some salt shipments by river steamers; vouchers from steamers and railroads; and correspondence concerning shipments of salt. Included are several letters from Gov. John Gill Shorter to John P. Figh and Company authorizing the delivery of salt for indigent families of soldiers, requests by Capt. Jonathan DeLoach for salt for the military encampment at Oven Bluff, and inquiries from probate judges as to the correct amount they can charge for salt. Also included is an 1864 letter from Green to Salt Commissioner Benjamin M. Woolsey, stating that Gov. Thomas Hill Watts had authorized the shipment of twenty-five sacks of salt to the Ala. Penitentiary via Capt. J.A. Pickett. Also included is a statement by W.L. Dodson, agent at the Lower Salt Reserve, which shows expenses for transporting salt produced by John P. Figh and Company.

ArchivalResource: 6 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122581916 View

Alabama. Governor (1861-1863 : Shorter). Administrative files, 1861-1863.

Title: Administrative files, 1861-1863.

This series consists of the administrative files of Governor John Gill Shorter, containing letters, correspondence, petitions, reports, legislative acts and resolutions, receipts, dispatches, telegrams, and military orders. Topics discussed include: attempts to relieve indigent families of Confederate soldiers; distribution of salt; manufacture of weapons; requests for army discharges and transfers; establishment of army hospitals; Union sympathizers within the state; issuance of licenses to distill alcohol; cultivation of food crops; impressment of slave labor; exemptions from military conscriptions; and reports on military campaigns in Va. Included in the series is a large number of letters and petitions to Shorter from persons requesting licenses to distill alcohol for medicinal purposes. The correspondence includes reports by county sheriffs of confiscation of unlicensed stills, applications for licenses, and letters of recommendation of applicants. Also included is a copy of an act and a proclamation by Shorter to prohibit the distillation of alcohol without the Governor's permission. Among the correspondents are William Lowndes Yancey, David Clopton, James Grandison Leroy Huey, Benjamin F. Porter, and Walter H. Crenshaw. Also included are numerous letters between Shorter and Confederate government officials in Richmond, Va., many of which letters discuss the establishment of military hospitals for Ala. troops in the Confederate army. An 1861 Dec. letter of Shorter to C.S.A. Sec. of War Judah P. Benjamin reports a $30,000 appropriation by the Ala. legislature for an Ala. hospital in Richmond. Present additionally is a copy of an act of the legislature approved 1861 Dec. 9 establishing an Ala. hospital at Manassas, Va. Also included is an 1861 Dec. letter to Shorter from Dr. Peter Bryce strongly advising against a proposal to confine Union prisoners-of-war in the Ala. Insane Hospital at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Some of the more frequent correspondents include: William M. Brooks, discussing a neglect in agricultural production because of constant militia drills and the status of construction of defenses on the Tombigbee River using impressed slave labor; Benjamin F. Porter, dicussing the transfer of the Greenville militia to Pensacola, Fla., and opposition to the use of army officers to enforce the conscription law; Dr. Francis A. Bates, discussing conditions at the army hospital at Corinth, Miss.; Samuel K. Rayburn, describing the conditions endured by indigent families of soldiers; and former Gov. A. B. Moore, who, serving as Shorter's aide-de-camp, discusses such topics as conscription of university cadets, salt distribution, and labor of state-impressed slaves. The series contains numerous requests from persons desiring Shorter's assistance in obtaining military discharges or transfers for them, their husbands or sons. Also included are letters from Ladies Aid Societies reporting on their progress in producing clothing and blankets for the troops, as well as letters from local vigilance committees requesting the appropriate action to take against persons "uttering treasonous statements against the Confederacy."

ArchivalResource: Originals: 3 cubic ft. (2 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes).Copies: 9 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145409419 View

Alabama. Comptroller of Public Accounts. Impressment vouchers, 1863-1864.

Title: Impressment vouchers, 1863-1864.

On 1862 Oct. 31, Governor John G. Shorter approved Act No. 22 which authorized the impressment of slaves and equipment "to provide for the public safety by quelling insurrection, [and] preventing or repelling invasion . . . ." The labor and supplies impressed were used primarily to build or maintain fortifications. This series consists of affidavits for the impressment of slaves or supplies such as mules, wagons, or tools used to work on fortifications, primarily on the Alabama River near Mobile. The series also consists of numbered payroll sheets that tell how much was paid by Alabama Quartermaster, Captain J. A. Pickens, to various individuals for provisions such as food and tools. In addition to the amount paid, the payroll supplies the name of the individual, his signature, the date of impressment, and the articles impressed. The affidavits provide the name of the individual whose property was impressed, what was impressed (if a slave was impressed, his name is sometimes given), the date the slave or supplies were impressed, the county in which the owner lived, the purpose for the impressment (usually to work on fortifications), the number of days worked, and the date of the affidavit. The series also contains an abstract of expenditures for tools and provisions. It is a numerical list of the payroll sheets that designates the sheet number, the county in which payment was made, for what payment was supplied, and how much was paid. The series covers impressments that occurred between 1863 Aug. and 1864 Jan. 18.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cubic ft. (3 archives boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122582000 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647973052 View

Alabama. Hospitals in Richmond, Va. Administrative files, 1861-1905, and n.d.

Title: Administrative files, 1861-1905, and n.d.

The Ala. Hospitals in Richmond, Va., were established by an act of the Ala. legislature in 1861 Nov. to provide medical care for Ala. soldiers serving in the Army of the Potomac, later known as the Army of Northern Va. Juliet Opie Hopkins served as Matron and acting superintendent of the hospitals from 1861 to 1864. From 1864 to 1865 she was in charge of the military hospital at Camp Watts, Macon County, Ala. This series, consisting of administrative files from 1861 to 1865, documents Hopkins' day-to-day activities as a hospital administrator. Included are correspondence, letters, telegrams, broadsides, newspaper clippings, receipts, canceled checks, account books (bookkeeping), lists of hospital supplies and patients received by hospitals, a record of soldiers admitted into the hospitals, a record of soldiers who died in the hospitals, and a scrapbook. The letters contain information about supply requests for the hospital, articles received and donated, financial contributions, and the nurse volunteers. Primary correspondents include Ala. Governors A.B. Moore and John Gill Shorter, Col. William D. Chadwick, M.H. Sanborn, Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker, and Gen. W.O. Hardee. The account books contain information on inventories of supplies and furnishings, invoices, and accounts with the State of Alabama. Of specific note is an account book of deceased soldiers that details how the money and personal effects of deceased soldiers were handled. The scrapbook is especially noteworthy. It contains a letter to General Joseph Wheeler from Thomas M. Owen, in 1905. There is also a copy of the 1861 act creating the hospital agency in Va. In the scrapbook there are numerous letters and other documents from prominent Confederate and Alabama leaders. Correspondents include Ala. Governors A.B. Moore, John Gill Shorter, and Thomas Hill Watts, Confederate officals, such as Leroy Pope Walker, William Lowndes Yancey, and C.G. Memminger; and military officers Evander M. Law, Levi W. Lawler, Edward A. O'Neal, Percy Walker, W.O. Hardee, N.H.R. Dawson, and J.J. Seibels. There are also a list of patients received on page 54, invoices, telegrams, clippings, and most notably a broadside from Selma dated 1861 September 4 discussing the establishment of a hospital in Richmond for Alabama soldiers

ArchivalResource: Originals 0.7 cubic ft. (2 archives boxes).Copies 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81283145 View

Alabama. Salt Commission. Contracts to manufacture salt, 1861-1864.

Title: Contracts to manufacture salt, 1861-1864.

This series contains contracts for salt manufacture, correspondence concerning contracts, and applications for military exemption for persons engaged in salt manufacture. An act approved 1861 Nov. 11, "An Act to encourage the Manufacture of Salt in Ala.," authorized the Governor to lease state salt lands and to contract for the production of salt. Included are an 1861 Dec. contract leasing the State Salt Springs in Clarke County to John P. Figh for a period of ten years; an 1862 July contract with L.W. McClung and Capt. Joseph Jaques of Knoxville, Tenn., to produce salt for the Ala. Salt Manufacturing Company, a Macon Co., Ala. consortium composed of David Clopton, Absalom A. Barton, Cullen A. Battle, A.J. Battle, Wylie W. Mason, George W. Campbell, and N.S. Graham, to manufacture salt in Saltville, Va.; and a contract with Daniel McLeod and Samuel W. Harwell to produce salt for Alabama on the coast of Florida. Included is the correspondence between Gov. John Gill Shorter and McClung and Jaques concerning their difficulties in obtaining kettles, lumber, and brine from the firm of Stuart, Buchanan and Company. Also included are applications by William J. Bush and Thomas Stuart of Barbour County and Warren W. Mooney of Pike County for military exemptions to allow them to manufacture salt.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122507713 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. Governor. Appointments correspondence, 1861-1863.

Title: Appointments correspondence, 1861-1863.

The Governor of Alabama is responsible for making appointments to various state and local offices and for signing grants and commissions. This series consists of letters and petitions relating to appointments, resignations and commissions, both civil and military. Some offices and positions for which applications are made include: notary public; probate judge; circuit judge; county solicitor; county sheriff; army surgeon; army chaplain; agent to collect arms, blankets, and clothing; agent to receive salt for the state; and impressment agent. Included are recommendations by John Tyler Morgan and C. C. Pegues for the appointment of George W. Gayle to the circuit court bench in Dallas Co.; recommendations by James G. L. Huey, M. H. Cruickshank, and others for the appointment of John T. Heflin to the Talladega Co. circuit bench; one by George D. Shortridge for the appointment of Rufus W. Cobb as probate judge of Shelby Co.; and a recommendation from members of the Mobile Bar for the appointment of James Bond as solicitor of Mobile Co. Also included is an unsigned copy of a letter, presumably from Gov. Shorter, to Jefferson Davis recommending a promotion for Pri. William Linebaugh for his heroism at the battle of New-Market Bridge, Va., and a request from N. H. R. Dawson for appointment as commander of one of the state camps for military instruction.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 0.3 cubic ft. (8 folders).Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81948059 View

Alabama. Salt Commission. General correspondence, 1861-1865.

Title: General correspondence, 1861-1865.

This series contains correspondence of salt commissioners Abner G. McGehee and Benjamin M. Woolsey, Quartermaster General Duff C. Green, and Ala. governors A.B. Moore, John Gill Shorter, and Thomas Hill Watts on a variety of topics relating to the manufacture, transportation, sale, and distribution of salt in and for Ala. from 1861 to 1865. The bulk of the correspondence is from the year 1864. Included is an 1861 Nov. letter by Quartermaster Green to Gov. Moore for clarification of Moore's order to impound salt in Mobile that was scheduled for delivery to planters in eastern Mississippi. An 1862 Dec. letter from Gov. Shorter to McGehee outlines the responsibilities of the Salt Commissioner. In an 1863 Mar. letter to Adjutant and Inspector General Joel Riggs, Shorter outlines the duties of the Salt Commissioner in relation to those of the Quartermaster General. Included also are a number of letters to Gov. Watts and Commissioner Woolsey from persons requesting military exemptions to allow them to continue to work as salt makers. Other topics include: the impressment of slave laborers at the State Salt Works in Clarke Co. to work on defenses in Mobile; the use of salt in business transactions in lieu of available currency; and difficulties in removing salt to north Ala. from Saltville, Va.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86119013 View

Dent, S. H. (Stouten Hubert), 1833-1917. Papers, 1847-1865.

Title: Papers, 1847-1865.

Correspondence (1860-65) from Dent to his wife, Anna Beall (Young) Dent, recounting his military service; correspondence (1861-63) from Anna Dent to S.H. Dent; correspondence (1857-59) to Dent from his father, Stouten Warren Dent; miscellaneous family correspondence (1857-61); and a letter (1847) from Henry L. Lowe (no relation), serving in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft., 1 document box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22866794 View

Bliss, Robert Lewis. Miscellaneous microfilm collection, undated, [microform].

Title: Miscellaneous microfilm collection, undated, [microform].

This collection contains microfilm copies of account books, organizational records, state records, church records, genealogical notes, diaries, letters, cemetery records, county records, C.S.A. records, scrapbooks, land records, Mississippi Territory records, miscellaneous records from other Southern States, and printed materials. Of special interest are the records of the Baptist Church, the Freedman's Bureau, records concerning the Scottsboro Boys case, C.S.A. soldiers letters, and the W.P.A., Federal Writers' Project on Folklore, Ex-slave tales, Life, Histories, and Stories.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 560 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122442460 View

Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872. Letters, 1860-1864.

Title: Letters, 1860-1864.

Letters, 1860 Dec. 9 - 1864 Dec. 12, from John Gill Shorter, Eufaula, Ala., to "My Dear Daughter" and other letters to "Dear Sir." The letters concern Shorter's uncle Junius' death from typhoid fever and Baptist burial services, his alarm at the seriousness of strengthening Pollard and Mobile with more officers and soldiers, and the indebtness of the State of Ala.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122392216 View

Shorter, John Gill, 1818-1872. Papers, 1860-1861.

Title: Papers, 1860-1861.

Collection contains papers relating to Shorter's attendance at the secession convention in Georgia, 1861, and include his commission as a representative from Ala. to the Georgia convention, a letter of instruction to Shorter from the president of the Ala. secession convention, and Shorter's letter of introduction to the president of the Georgia convention.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Incoming letters, 1847-1860.

Title: Incoming letters, 1847-1860.

This series functioned to document the recording duties and other functions of the Secretary of State. Besides letters, this series also contains extraditions, handbills, petitions, and receipts. Subjects discussed include the awarding of commissions of various types, particularly land commissioners and notary publics, the creation of new electoral beats, the formation of new counties, the Alabama-Florida boundary, state tax assessments, bids for printing public documents, the cost of improving the Capitol grounds in Tuscaloosa in the late 1840s, land ownership, the crime of stealing slaves, corporation charters, taking the census, Michael Tuomey's work on a geological survey, the incorporation of the Masonic Female College in Auburn in 1852, temperance, militia units, James H. Weaver's 1857 campaign to be re-elected Secretary of State, and railroads, particularly the Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 cubic ft. (1 records center carton and 1 archives box).

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James Thomas Murfee letters, 1863-1864.

Title: James Thomas Murfee letters, 1863-1864.

Letters to L.C. Garland, president of The University of Alabama, and to Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, dealing with requisitions, fortifying the University campus, and cadets during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet (6 items, 7 pieces)

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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