Burwell Boykin Lewis papers, 1862,undated [manuscript].

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Burwell Boykin Lewis papers, 1862,undated [manuscript].

Letter, 1862, from Lewis, Camp Lee (near Pollard, Ala.), Confederate officer from Alabama, to his wife, concerning the capture of a Union spy, B. Colvin, in Florida, and other matters; and a seventeen-page biographical sketch, written by Lewis's daughter, Caroline Lewis Montgomery, of Lewis, member of Congress from Alabama and president of the University of Alabama in the years after the Civil War.

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President of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. From the description of Papers, 1843-1894. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19865936 Burwell Boykin Lewis was a Confederate officer from Alabama. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the United States Congress, and as president of the University of Alabama. From the guide to the Burwell Boykin Lewis Papers, ., 1862 and undated, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Li...

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