Morgan Smith Gilmer papers 1954

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Morgan Smith Gilmer papers 1954

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Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.

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Gilmer, Morgan S., 1847?-

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Morgan S. Gilmer was born in 1846. He was part of Shockley's Escort during the Civil War and was wounded in Lafayette, Georgia, on 24 June 1864. He rejoined his unit on 1 November 1864 and served until the end of the war. He returned to Montgomery, Alabama, and married Helen Barton in 1885. He died in 1916. Gilmer's register of Shockley's Independent Escort Company was published by Woodruff Company, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1905. The unit itself was formed by University o...

University of Alabama Corps of Cadets.

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S.W. Eddins was probably born about 1849 and was admitted to the University of Alabama's Corps of Cadets in 1864. From the guide to the S. W. Eddins Appointment Letter MSS. 0474., 1864 September 1, (University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama) In an effort to combat severe disciplinary problems (gunfights, riots, etc.), University of Alabama president, Landon Garland, lobbied and received permission from the state legislature ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Shockley's Alabama Escort Company

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