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- Letter from Governor Gabriel Moore in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to John Coffee.
- 1831-01-04
- In the letter Moore discusses a conversation he had with Coffee and President Andrew Jackson the previous summer, regarding the conflict between himself and Colonel John McKinley. (McKinley allegedly did not support Moore's nephew for the post of...
- 2010-06-09
- Letter from Governor John Gayle, appointing two unnamed men as agents to investigate recent charges against the Indians in several central western Alabama counties.
- 1834-06-16
- In the letter Gayle describes the allegations of the white citizens, including the murder of a circuit court clerk in Russell County. The newly appointed agents are to begin their work by meeting with the Indian chiefs: "In your interview with...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from O. K. Freeman in Tuskegee, Alabama, to Governor Clement C. Clay in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1836-03-05
- After learning from an acquaintance that the "indians intended to go to war, when the trees put out their leaves," Freeman traveled through the Creek nation in Alabama to observe their behavior. In the letter he reports activities among the Indians...
- 2010-11-12
- Letter from Syndenham Moore on the Rio Grande, to his wife, Amanda, in Greensboro, Alabama.
- 1846-08-31
- During the Mexican-American War, Moore organized and led the Eutaw Rangers, a group of volunteers from Greene County, Alabama. He wrote this letter while traveling on a boat to his regiment's next camp. In it he mentions the great sickness that...
- 2010-01-28
- "Provisional Congress of the Confederate States."
- 1861-02-13
- This article gives the proceedings of the Confederate congress during the sixth and seventh days of its session. On the sixth day members took oaths of office; elected a president and vice president of the provisional government; and appointed...
- 2010-01-25
- General Order Number 18, issued by General Joseph E. Johnston.
- 1865-04-27
- The order deals with the cessation of hostilities at the end of the Civil War: "...the officers and men of this army are to bind themselves not to take up arms against the United States untill [sic] properly released from that obligation and shall...
- 2012-10-18
- Handwritten copy of General J. E. Johnston's farewell order.
- 1865-05-02
- In the order, issued at the end of the war, Johnston advises the men "to observe faithfully the terms of pacification agreed upon" in order to "secure the comfort of your families and kindred and restore tranquility to our Country." A transcript is...
- 2011-04-04
- Letter from George F. Lieb in Wenatchee, Washington, to Judge Eugene W. Carter in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1956-03-24
- In the letter Lieb criticizes Carter's recent conviction of Martin Luther King, Jr., in connection with the Montgomery bus boycott. He denounces civil rights injustices in the South and compares the region to communist Russia. Though Lieb professes...
- 2009-09-04