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- Volume 1 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 1 through 124.
- 1855-00-00
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Volume 2 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 125 through 205.
- 1856-08-00
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- The Dallas Gazette, volume 15, number 42.
- 1858-08-13
- The issue includes advertisements and articles on the following topics: goods and services offered by local businesses; death, marriage, and legal notices; local events; news about social, medical, agricultural, political, economic, and military...
- 2011-10-11
- The Dallas Gazette, volume 15, number 43.
- 1858-08-20
- The issue includes advertisements and articles on the following topics: goods and services offered by local businesses; death, marriage, and legal notices; local events; news about social, medical, agricultural, political, economic, and military...
- 2011-10-11
- Volume 3 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 206 through 319.
- 1859-08-10
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- "Executors' Sale of Valuable Lands and Negroes, Stock, Provisions, &c., In Barbour County, Alabama."
- 1860-01-26
- Advertisement for the sale of Milton A. Browder's estate at a "public outcry" auction on February 16, 1860. For sale are about 2,400 acres of land; 50 slaves ("of superior quality, embracing Boys and Girls, single men and women, and families, all...
- 2009-09-04
- Letter from Bolling Hall, Jr., at the University of Virginia to his father in Alabama.
- 1861-02-15
- This letter was written not long after the formation of the Confederate States of America. In it Bolling discusses possible interruptions in mail delivery ("I have been looking everyday [sic] to see it announced that the Government has discontinued...
- 2011-07-06
- Volume 4 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages pages 320 through 387.
- 1862-01-11
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Letter from J. W. Lapsley in Selma, Alabama, to Colin J. McRae.
- 1862-02-17
- In the letter Lapsley discusses the availability of iron for work on the Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad ("I apprehend some difficulty now in procuring iron to complete the road"), and he mentions specimens of iron that are being sent to...
- 2009-09-30
- Letter from S. Croom in Mobile, Alabama, to S. G. Jones, president of the Alabama and Florida Railroad of Alabama.
- 1862-11-15
- In the letter Croom discusses the appropriation of railroad cars and iron tracks from the Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida, by the Confederate army; the rolling stock will be used by two other lines in the state (including the Alabama and...
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Major General J. H. Forney in Mobile, Alabama, to Colonel John R. F. Tattnall near Pollard, Alabama.
- 1862-11-18
- In the letter Forney discusses the appropriation of railroad cars and iron tracks from the Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida, by the Confederate army; the rolling stock will be used by two other lines in the state, because "the demand for...
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Major General J. H. Forney in Mobile, Alabama, to C. T. Pollard, president of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, and of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Alabama.
- 1862-11-18
- In the letter Forney discusses the appropriation of railroad cars and iron tracks from the Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida, by the Confederate army; the rolling stock will be used by two other lines in the state (including the Montgomery...
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Major General J. H. Forney in Mobile, Alabama, to O. M. Avery, president of the president of the Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida.
- 1862-11-18
- In the letter Forney discusses the appropriation of railroad cars and iron tracks from Avery's railroad, by the Confederate army; the rolling stock will be used by two other lines in the state, and iron will "fill the requisition of the Engineer...
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Charles T. Pollard, president of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Alabama in Montgomery, to E. M. Pratt.
- 1862-11-23
- In the letter Pollard discusses the locomotive and cars his company will be acquiring from the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Florida, to use during the war.
- 2011-07-01
- Letter from Captain A. J. Handley in Pollard, Alabama, to O. M. Avery and George H. Hutton of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company of Alabama.
- 1862-11-25
- In the letter Pollard discusses the appropriation of railroad engines and cars from Avery's railroad, by the Confederate army; the rolling stock will be used by two other lines in the state.
- 2011-07-01
- Notes made by Major Henry Semple, on the Confederate troops stationed in southern Alabama.
- 1863
- During the Civil War, Henry Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the description he discusses the positions of companies...
- 2011-07-06
- Letter from William Riley Jones in West Point, Georgia, to his wife, Mary.
- 1863-05-27
- During the Civil War, Jones served in Company G of the 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment; he was killed in the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. He wrote the letter while his regiment was traveling by railroad from Tennessee, to Vicksburg,...
- 2010-07-27
- Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Minor Meriwether in Selma, Alabama, to Samuel G. Jones, engineer and superintendent of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1864-06-21
- In the brief letter Meriwether orders Jones to send the locomotive engine "Industry" to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad.
- 2011-07-06
- Letter from Samuel G. Jones, engineer and superintendent of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1864-07-12
- In the letter Jones reports that, complying with military orders from General Maury, "no cotton will be permitted to be brought to Mobile"; therefore, the railroad stations are no longer allowed to receive cotton shipments bound for that city.
- 2011-07-06
- Letter from Thomas Warrick in Atlanta, Georgia, to his wife, Martha.
- 1864-07-31
- During the war, Warrick served in the Coosa Home Guards, and he was a private in Company C of the 34th Alabama Infantry. In the letter he discusses the heavy casualties suffered during recent battles in Atlanta: "I hav bin through 2 of as hard...
- 2009-12-03