Collection on Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama 1956

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Collection on Phi Alpha Theta's Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Burning of the University of Alabama 1956

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Contains a newspaper article entitled "Yankee colonel wavered that terrible day, but orders were to burn U of A to ground" and the carbon copy of a letter from Charles G. Summersell to C.E. Williams about Phi Theta Kappa's presentation, "Vocata," commemorating the burning of the University of Alabama by Yankee soldiers in April, 1865, just weeks before Lee's surrender in Appomattox, Virginia. There are also four photographs to accompany the "Vocata" text with a page telling who is in photograph. Some of the people mentioned are Harriet Chappel Owsley (Mrs. Frank L.), Professor Bernard C. Weber, Charles C. Cantrell, Professor John Frazier Ramsey, Professor John F. Pancake, Professor Frank Lawrence Owsley (Sr.), Professor Charle Grayson Summersell, and Mrs. Charles G. Summersell.

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W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama

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University of Alabama

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Summersell, Charles Grayson, 1908-

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Owsley, Frank Lawrence, 1890-1956

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Author, historian, and teacher. Member of the Agrarian group. From the description of Frank Lawrence Owsley Papers, 1913-1959. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 19906286 From the description of Frank Lawrence Owsley Correspondence, 1913-1959. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 19906121 ...

Phi Alpha Theta. Beta Omicron Chapter (University of Alabama)

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