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- Excerpts from THE DIARY OF A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER by John Washington Inzer, edited by Mattie Lou Teague Crow.
- 1977-00-00
- During the Civil War Inzer served as a lieutenant colonel in the 58th Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. In the passages he describes fighting in the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was captured; the poor treatment and...
- 2009-06-25
- "Oath Davis Took In '61 Is Repeated."
- 1961-02-19
- This article describes the Civil War centennial celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, with an emphasis on the reenactment of the inauguration of Jefferson Davis. Several images of the event are included. From The Clarion-Ledger of Jacksonville,...
- 2009-09-04
- Correspondence from governors of Southern states to Alabama Governor John Patterson, regarding the upcoming Civil War centennial celebration in Montgomery.
- 1961-01
- Governor Patterson had invited his colleagues to attend the event. Of the eight governors responding here, only two accepted the invitation.
- 2009-09-04
- Proclamation by Governor John Patterson, declaring January 8, 1961 as the beginning of the Civil War Centennial Commemoration in Alabama.
- 1960-12-30
- In the proclamation Patterson suggests that ministers and teachers in the state make reference to the centennial in their congregations and classrooms.
- 2009-09-04
- "Eight Alabama Soldiers Gain Highest Award."
- 1948-12-19
- Article from The Montgomery Advertiser about the eight Alabamians who have received the Congressional Medal of Honor: from the Civil War, Richard Taylor; from the Philippine Insurrection, Gordon Johnston; from World War I, Sidney E. Manning; from...
- 2009-09-18
- Telegram from Marie Owen in Montgomery, Alabama, to her niece, Tallulah Bankhead, in New York, New York.
- 1931-05-20
- In the telegram Owen explains that the governor of Alabama and the mayor of Montgomery would like for Tallulah to attend the Confederate veteran reunion on June 2. She encourages her niece to participate: "It would make good national publicity as...
- 2009-10-16
- Postscript of a letter from William Lochiel Cameron to Anna Maria Gayle Fry.
- 1915
- With his original message, Cameron enclosed a letter from Mrs. T. O. Chestney of Macon, Georgia, which is included here. On the back of Mrs. Chestney's letter, Cameron quotes from a report describing the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. A...
- 2011-11-16
- "Account of General Forrest's Last Fight" by Dr. Robert Dandridge Jackson.
- 1910
- 2011-09-22
- Letter from S. R. Wheeler in Rainsville, Alabama, to J. M. McCain.
- 1909-05-05
- In the letter Wheeler urges McCain to reapply for a pension because his request "was not propperly [sic] considered before and many such blunders have hapened [sic] in the Pension Dept."
- 2009-12-14
- Letter Felix H. Robertson in Crawford, Texas, to S. H. Dent.
- 1909-04-25
- At the start of the Civil War, Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (a unit formerly commanded by Felix Robertson)....
- 2011-04-04
- Letter from Edmund W. Rucker in Birmingham, Alabama, to Joel Barnett in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1905-10-18
- In the letter Rucker writes about his long friendship with Barnett: "You don't know, my dear friend, how much pleasure it gives me to bear testimony to your fidelity and courage as a Confederate Soldier. You were nearer to me, some how or other,...
- 2009-09-18
- Letter from R. Alexander Bate in Louisville, Kentucky, to Dr. H. M. Weedon in Eufaula, Alabama.
- 1905-05-30
- Bate served as chairman of the Association of the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy. In the letter he asks Weedon to attend the organization's eighth reunion. A transcript is included.
- 2011-05-24
- Letter from Henry D. Capers in Opelika, Alabama, to Dr. Hamilton M. Weedon.
- 1903-01-08
- In the letter Capers praises a poem written by Weedon about the Battle of Chickamauga. A transcript is included.
- 2011-05-24
- "My War Record" written by Dr. Robert Dandridge Jackson in 1903.
- 1903
- 2011-09-22
- Letter from Walton Weber in Columbus, Ohio, to S.H. Dent.
- 1902-11-29
- At the start of the Civil War, Dent was a 1st lieutenant of the Eufaula Rifles, which became Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry; he was eventually promoted to captain and commanded Dent's Battery (formerly Robertson's Battery). In the letter...
- 2011-04-04
- Confederate pension application filed by Mary Ann York of Jackson County, Alabama.
- 1898-00-00
- Mary Ann was the widow of Merida York, who had served as a private in Company D of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.
- 2010-11-12
- Copy of Ed P. Webb's testimony concerning 57 bales cotton that were seized by Federal troops around the end of April 1865.
- 1872-10-12
- Ed P. Webb worked for S. S. Webb and Company of Mobile, Alabama. In the statement, he discusses how the company obtained and stored the cotton, and how they received the news that the it had been seized. He also describes the efforts that he and S....
- 2009-09-11
- Rules and Regulations of the Commissioners of Claims, Appointed under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1871.
- 1871-03-03
- The Commissioners of Claims, also known as the Southern Claims Commission, was created to address claims for personal property loss made by citizens in Southern states after the Civil War. This option was only available to those who had remained...
- 2009-06-25
- Pages from a diary written by Sally Randle Perry after the Civil War.
- 1867
- Sally was living on her plantation in Dallas County, Alabama, at the time she kept the diary. Her husband, John Perry, was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg.
- 2009-09-11
- Letter from Henry C. Semple in Montgomery, Alabama, to Charles T. Pollard, president of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad.
- 1866-07-04
- In the letter Semple asks Pollard to grant passage to two men who plan to transport the bodies of fallen soldiers from the battlefield near Georgia to Alabama. According to several notes on the back, the men were given clearance, but they decided...
- 2011-07-06