Administrative files, 1859-1865.

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Administrative files, 1859-1865.

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This series consists of bonds; distillation files; elections, commissions, appointments and exemptions; extraditions; land patents; military files; oaths of office; pardons, paroles and clemencies; petition against impressment of slaves - Office of Chief Agent (Mobile) to Gov. Watts; and proclamations. Topics include the issuance of licences to distill alcohol; impressment of slave labor; exemptions from military conscriptions, requests for pardons and paroles and the administering of oaths to officials. Particularly interesting are the documents in the military files. One item is a report that lists the Alabama troops in Stephen D. Lee's Corps in the Army of Tennessee as of 1865 January 18. The other items give estimates by Acting Adjutant and Inspector General Hugh P. Watson on the total number of Alabamians that have served in the military during the Civil War as of 1864 October 31. The bulk of the series consists of bonds; distillation files; pardons, paroles and clemencies; and oaths of office.

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

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6713521

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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