The note asks that Henry Hayes be paid the amount due to Thomas Clark. The matter involves the value of lands distributed after the death of John Clark, Elisha's father.
In the letter Powell explains that he has moved from Huntsville to Franklin County near Tuscumbia and Florence ("they are even now places of great trade and considerable importance but are waging an eternal war against each other - which will...
In the letter Murphy mentions that Lewis has not replied to recent correspondence regarding his appointment to the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission. Murphy sends this message by an express messenger ("It would not be proper to abandon a matter of...
In the letter Murphy mentions that "the Commissioners of Georgia and Alabama have not come to any agreement, on the Subject of the Line dividing the two States." He directs Lewis to survey the the line on the Chattahoochee River again, so the...
Moore issued the handbill in response to two statements published by Colonel John McKinley, his opponent in the race for the United States Senate. The two men had been at odds since McKinley allegedly did not support Moore's nephew for the post of...
In the letter Coffee makes a formal statement about a recent interview he had with Governor Gabriel Moore, regarding the conflict between Moore and McKinley. Coffee told Moore that McKinley had, as promised, supported Moore's nephew for the post of...
In his address Cobb insists that the slavery question, the central issue influencing the pending secession of the South, was not answered by the recent presidential election: "But gentlemen say they cannot do anything. They say that the edict went...
Report submitted to the United States House of Representatives by Dixon Hall Lewis of the Committee on Indian Affairs. The committee requests "relief for certain Creek Indians of mixed blood, within the State of Alabama; and also the petitions of...
Schermerhorn writes on behalf of the United States commissioners who are negotiating the cession of Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River. In the letter he informs the council that the Cherokee government, adopted in 1827, is not recognized...
In the letter Witherington discusses the upcoming trial of one of his slaves. He feels the matter has not been handled fairly, and he asks Dellet for help: "Sir if there is not a stop put to it by some person which has more knowledge about things...
Minter has just been appointed the guardian of George and Sarah Bowie, and he is trying to collect money owed to the children by their former guardian. He asks for Dellet's assistance in the matter.
In the letter Ormond explains that he has lost his recent suit against John Howie, and he asks Dellet to look into the matter and attempt to get another trial.
The first item is a letter from Senator Buford, in which he discusses sectional division over the issues of territorial expansion and slavery; he suggests a convention of the Southern states to address the "impending results of the northern...
In the letter Rose discusses a disturbance among the slaves on his plantation, and he asks Hall to investigate the matter: "I must...ask you to ride over to my plantation and ascertain...the fact of the assembling of white men there on the Sabbath,...
In the letter Douglass directs Semple to send him an update about a legal matter, and he gives instructions for forwarding money that will be paid to him. A transcript is included.
Hall served as the administrator of the estate of his niece Margaret Bailey, and Jackson had previously thought that his own children deserved a share of the estate. In this letter Jackson reports that according to the law in Alabama, his children...
From May 1861 to May 1862 Crenshaw Hall served in the 6th Alabama Infantry. In the letter he discusses the journey to their current location ("one continued train of accidents and delays "); conditions in camp; the health of the men in his...
In the letter the men discuss the winter clothing that will be needed by the soldiers. They will soon receive money from the Confederate government, which they will send to the society for the purchase of clothes: "The amount of money that we will...
In the letter Faulkner discusses money to be collected from soldiers, which will be sent to a committee of the soldiers' aid society for Autauga County, Alabama, for the purchase of new uniforms. The men had originally agreed to send a certain...
In the letter Winston explains that Union troops have taken his property without compensation: "On no other plantation was such a large quantity of corn taken (leaving so little), thus proving it was done through malice and spite." He asks Buell to...