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- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Alex K. Hall in camp at Augusta, Georgia, to his father, probably in Portland, Alabama.
- 1865-03-09
- During the Civil War, Hall served in the 2nd and 3rd Alabama Cavalry. In the letter he discusses troop movements; mutual acquaintances and relatives; his horse ("Pony, otherwise dubed [sic] Horse-Fly"); the weather and landscape near his camp; and...
- 2011-07-06
- 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 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
- Letter from John E. Hall in the camp of the 59th Alabama Infantry regiment ("In Trenches"), to his father, Bolling, in Alabama.
- 1864-08-27
- From November 1863 through the end of the Civil War, John Hall served in Co. B, 59th Alabama Infantry regiment. In the letter he discusses recent campaigns and losses ("Fort Morgan we learned yesterday, has been surrendered. Next may be Mobile");...
- 2011-10-20
- Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Minor Meriwether in Demopolis, Alabama, to Samuel G. Jones, engineer and superintendent of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1864-09-13
- In the brief letter Meriwether orders Jones to send railroad cars to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad. Also included is a receipt for the transfer.
- 2011-07-06
- 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 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 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 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 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 Samuel G. Jones, engineer and superintendent of the Alabama and Florida Railroad Company in Montgomery, Alabama, to Lieutenant Colonel Minor Meriwether.
- 1864-09-03
- In the letter Jones reports that the company removed railroad rails, spikes, chairs, and chains, and sent the collected iron to Pollard, Alabama. He includes a list of the numbers and weights of the materials, and mentions the amount he plans to...
- 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 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 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