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- Letters between M. W. Darby, general manager at Cherry Cotton Mills in Florence, Alabama, and Governor Benjamin Miller in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1934-09
- In the first letter, written September 18, 1934, Darby describes the effect of the current national textile strike on his company. Armed strikers have been threatening employees, so the mill has been shut down. He asks the state to intercede since...
- 2010-02-10
- Letter from Howell Rose in Coosa County, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1850
- 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,...
- 2012-01-27
- Copy of a letter from Raphael Semmes, "en route from Mobile to New Orleans," to General Ulysses S. Grant.
- 1865-12-17
- In the letter to Semmes protests his arrest on December 15 and asks Grant to present the matter before the president. He claims the arrest is a violation of the parole he was granted after his surrender ("solemn military capitulation") at the end...
- 2009-10-16
- Letter from Craig T. Sheldon in Fairhope, Alabama, to D. E. Greer in New Ellenton, South Carolina.
- 1963-11-27
- In the letter, written shortly after the assassination of John Kennedy, Sheldon accuses Lee Harvey Oswald of Communist activities and ultimately blames the president's death on Communism: "I feel that now is the time to organize our forces. About...
- 2010-01-25
- Telegram from Governor George C. Wallace to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.
- 1962-05-00
- In the message Wallace protests the dispatch of federal forces to Birmingham, which he insists are now "on duty" although the president has "publicly indicated that federal troops were only on a standby basis at military installations near...
- 2010-04-23
- Copy of a letter from Thomas J. Jessup in Nashville, Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson.
- 1845-05-30
- Jessup has been accused of "having by a course of intrigue obtained the command of the army in the Creek War in 1836; and of having, in the same way, caused the removal of General Scott from the command of that army." In the letter he asks Jackson...
- 2009-06-25

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