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- Letter from James R. Riggs at the S. P. Moore Hospital in Griffin, Georgia, to his sister, Martha Smith.
- 1863-11-23
- During the Civil War, Riggs served in Company G of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. In the letter he explains that he is in the hospital because a "fever has settled" in his right eye, and he describes the treatment he has been using: "I am...
- 2010-06-09
- 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
- PERSONAL EXPLANATION OF THE HON. W. R. W. COBB, OF ALABAMA, an address delivered in the United States House of Representatives.
- 1831-01-07
- In his address Cobb insists that the slavery question, the central issue influencing the pending secession of the South, was not answered by the recent presidential election: "But gentlemen say they cannot do anything. They say that the edict went...
- 2009-06-25
- Excerpts from A PLACE OF SPRINGS by Viola Goode Liddell.
- 1979-00-00
- In the book Liddell describes life and changes in Camden, Alabama, during the twentieth century; the author lived in the town from 1933 until her death in 1998. In the first passage she discusses the effects of the Great Depression in different...
- 2009-08-24
- Correspondence dealing with a strike at the Mobile Cotton Mills in Crichton, Alabama.
- 1933-10
- In the first letter, written October 31, 1933, Harry H. Smith describes the strike to Governor Benjamin Miller. To protest alleged violations of the National Recovery Administration's textile code, the strikers have been harassing the mill's...
- 2009-09-15
- Letter from Ferdinand L. Claiborne at a "Soldiers Retreat," to Colonel James Caller in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory.
- 1812-06-23
- In the letter Claiborne discusses recent attacks by Indians on white inhabitants in the territory: "The conduct of your Creek neighbours for some time past has been observed, and merit, in my opinion, exemplary punishment, and had I the power, they...
- 2009-11-20
- Letter from Colonel James Lewis to John Coffee, Surveyor General of the northern section of the Mississippi Territory.
- 1816-01-22
- In the letter Lewis asks Coffee for information about the survey of Indian lands: "Respecting the line to be run between us & the Indians Maj. Russell is desirous to know where the line will commence in the Chicasaws [sic] or Cherokees or Creeks or...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from Booker T. Washington in Boston, Massachusetts, to H. W. Laird in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1904-12-09
- In the letter Washington mentions a letter from Laird and some possible publicity for the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. He stresses the school's desire to maintain a low, positive profile: "Our settled policy is not to enter into a...
- 2009-06-25
- "Boykin Predicts Short Congress."
- 1949-09-22
- In this article, Boykin mentions some of the matters to be settled in the upcoming session of Congress. From The Mobile Press.
- 2009-09-15
- Introduction to PUBLIC ACTS PASSED DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS, COMMONLY CALLED THE COMPROMISE BILLS.
- 1851
- The introduction briefly discusses the terms of the "compromise bills" and encourages support for the decisions of the federal government: "There appears no objection from any Southern man to the Fugitive Slave Bill. After the Wilmot Proviso has...
- 2009-06-25
- Letter from the chiefs and warriors of several Creek Indian towns, to Governor Clement C. Clay.
- 1836-05-30
- The letter gives the Indians' response to the proclamation Clay issued to the Creek chiefs. They express disappointment at the behavior of the warring Indians but then describe their own amiable relations with white settlers, mentioning, however,...
- 2010-11-08
- "It Means a New Constitution."
- 1900-08-10
- This article comments on the Democratic victories in the recent election: "In our judgment, the result means a new Constitution for Alabama...The present one is out of date, imperfect and unfitted to present conditions...The perplexing, menacing...
- 2010-01-25
- Excerpt from POLITICS AND POWER IN A SLAVE SOCIETY: ALABAMA, 1800-1860 by J. Mills Thornton III.
- 1978-00-00
- This passage includes an excerpt of a letter from Daniel Pratt to Dixon Hall Lewis, written September 21, 1847. In the correspondence Pratt, an industrialist in Autauga County, Alabama, says that he considers himself "a permanent Citizen of this...
- 2009-06-25
- Section 26 of A. J. Pickett's "Interesting Notes upon the History of Alabama."
- This section gives information from A. Phistor of Montgomery, "in relation to the French Vine Company who settled in Alabama in 1818."
- 2010-05-12
- Section 10 of A. J. Pickett's "Interesting Notes upon the History of Alabama."
- This section gives information from George N. Stewart of Mobile, "in relation to the French Vine Company which settled in Alabama in 1818."
- 2010-05-12