Papers, 1846-1919.

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Papers, 1846-1919.

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Papers, 1846-1919, containing legal records, personal, political, military and legal correspondence, accounts, and printed materials. Series A, Legal Records, includes case notes for Semple's law practice, incorporation documents for railroad companies, and a copy of a case before the U.S. Congress. The bulk of this collection is correspondence, which includes Civil War letters Semple wrote to his wife, military correspondence containing copies of Adjutant General's letters discussing Semple's feuds with fellow Confederate officers such as Braxton Bragg, post war letters discussing state and national politics, including a letter from Horace Greeley and a 1918 letter to Mrs. Semple from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The rest of this collection contains accounts, a daybook register of law cases, speeches about various legal points and information concerning Semple's Civil War service.

.66 cubic ft. (1 records center carton and 1 oversized v.)

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6832078

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Goldthwaite, George, 1810-1879.

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George Goldthwaite, born in Boston, was a lawyer, chief justice of the Ala. Supreme Court, and U.S. Senator. He was a resident of Montgomery, Ala. and died in Tuscaloosa, Ala. From the description of Letter, 1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122558047 ...

Goldthwaite, Rice and Semple (Law Firm: Montgomery, Ala.)

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Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

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Confederate Army officer, planter, and engineer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1833-1879 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 44880220 Confederate General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mobile, to H. Storm, 1873 Oct. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133497 Army officer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1861-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455179 G...

Selma and Meridian Railroad.

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Busteed, Richard, 1822-1898

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Born on February 16, 1822, in County Cavan, Ireland, Busteed read law in 1846. He entered private practice in New York City, New York from 1846 to 1856. He was Corporation Counsel for New York City from 1856 to 1859. He was a Captain in the United States Army in 1861, and a Brigadier General from 1862 to 1863, during the American Civil War. Incident Once when confronted with black men being thrown out of a white railroad car by the conductor, Busteed pulled his pistol and defended the blac...

Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Letters of Littleton Waller Tazewell [manuscript], 1795-1836. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816521 U.S. senator from Virginia, 1824-1832; governor of Virginia, 1834-1836. From the description of AL (draft), [1829 Feb.], Washington, D.C., to Andrew Jackson. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 145506931 Governor of Virginia; United States Senator. From the descri...

Graves. R. E.

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Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

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Representative from Virginia; Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Autograph letter in pencil signed : [n.p.], to R.J. Walker, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633277 Confederate Secretary of War. From the description of Letter to Dr. [Lewis] [manuscript], 1853 November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647986794 From the description of Papers, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20313944 ...

Alabama. Circuit Court (Montgomery, Ala.)

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Semple, Emily Virginia James.

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Alabama. Chancery Court.

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Montgomery and West Point Railroad.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Artillery. Semple's Battery.

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Pollard, Charles T.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Semple, Henry C., 1822-1894

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Henry C. Semple of Montgomery, Ala., an artillery officer in the Confederate Army, served during the Civil War in Alabama and with the Army of Tennessee. From the description of Henry C. Semple papers, 1847-1878 (bulk 1861-1865) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23438156 Henry Churchill Semple (1822-1894) of Montgomery, Ala., was a captain and then a major in the Confederate Army. Semple's Battery was organized at Montgomery in March 1862, with officers and men nearly all fr...

Brickell, Semple and Gunter (Law Firm: Montgomery, Ala.)

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Fitpatrick, E. J.

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Chambliss, Robert G.

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Sayre, Paul Tucker.

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Democratic Party (Ala.)

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The 1860 Democratic National Convention was one of the crucial events in the lead-up to the American Civil War. The official Democratic national convention adjourned in deadlock without choosing a candidate for President. A resumed official convention nominated Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for President and former Senator Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia for Vice President. A "rump" convention, primarily Southerners, nominated Vice President John C. Breckinridge for Presiden...