Administrative files, 1867-1884.

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Administrative files, 1867-1884.

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This series consists of applications and recommendations, correspondence, petitions, proclamations, etc. Topics such as railroads, education, the Alabama Insane Hospital, the Alabama Institution for the Deaf and Blind, land, the Freedman's Hospital, the Ku Klux Klan, iron property, West Florida annexation, the call for federal troops, elections, the attempted murder of Judge Busteed, state finances and the 15th U.S. Admendment. Correspondents include Thomas Goode Jones, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, General Samuel Wylie Crawford and General Wager Swayne. The only folder not from the period of 1867-1870 relates to an 1884 report made concerning the case of the Treasurer of the State of Alabama.

3 cubic ft. (3 records center cartons).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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William Henry Seward was born in Florida, Orange County, New York, on May 16, 1801. He was the son of Samuel S. Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward. He graduated from Union College in 1820, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822. In 1823, he moved to Auburn, New York, where he entered Judge Elijah Miller's law office. He married Frances Adeline Miller, Judge Miller's daughter, in 1824. Seward was interested in politics early in his career and became actively involved in the Anti-Masonic m...

Swayne, Wager, 1834-1902

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Born in Columbus, Oh., Wager Swayne was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes Swayne. After graduating from Yale University he returned to Ohio to practice law. During the U.S. Civil War Swayne served as a field officer in one of Ohio's three-year infantry regiments. Appointed major of the 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Swayne fought in the battles of Iuka and Corinth, and later participated in the Atlanta Campaign, after which he was made brigadier general. He suffered a severe wound...

Freedman's Hospital (Talladega, Ala.)

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.).

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Crawford, Jr., Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892

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Crawford was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1850. He joined the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon in 1851 and served in that capacity for ten years. Crawford was the surgeon on duty at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, during the Confederate bombardment in 1861, which represented the start of the Civil War. Despite his purely medical background, he was in command of several of ...

Alabama. Governor (1868-1870 : Smith).

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Jones, Thomas Goode, 1844-1914

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Thomas Goode Jones was born on 1844 Nov. 26 at Macon, Ga. He was educated by tutors, Mongomery, Ala. schools, the schools of Dr. Charles Minor and Gesner Harrison in Virginia, and the Virginia Military Institute. Within months of joining the Confederate Army he rose to the rank of major. Following the war, he served as captain of the Montgomery Greys, Co. A., Second Regiment, Ala. State Troops, and colonel of the Second Infantry Regiment, Alabama State Troops, from 1880 to 1890. Between 1866 and...

Alabama. Insane Hospital.

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Alabama. Institution for the Deaf and Blind.

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