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- Alabama Board of Medical Examiners Newsletter, Vol 16, No. 1 , Winter 2000-2001, (4 pages)
- Newsletter of the Board
- Alabama State Publications Collection
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume IV.
- 1921
- 867 pages.
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume I.
- 1921
- 692 pages.
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume II.
- 1921
- 665 pages.
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume III.
- 1921
- 1000 pages.
- History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
- "Tecumtha."
- Engraving of Shawnee leader Tecumseh, from page 283 of THE PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE WAR OF 1812 by Benson J. Lossing.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Colonel Tennant Lomax, C.S.A.
- 1861-1862 circa
- (Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Lomax was promoted to brigadier general in 1862. Major...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Landon Garland, President of the University of Alabama, 1854-1867.
- (In cadet commander uniform). Born and educated in Virginia, Dr. Garland began his teaching career in Virginia before accepting the chair of the English Department at the University of Alabama in the early 1850s. Elected as president of the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Leroy Pope Walker.
- (No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Appointed Secretary of War for the Confederate States in February 1861 and resigned the post in September 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in September 1861 and resigned in March 1862. Spent...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- C.S.S. Tennessee.
- Built in Selma, Alabama, the C.S.S. Tennessee was the flagship of Confederate Admiral Franklin Buchanan during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. After the three smaller gunboats accompanying Tennessee were put out of action, the larger...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Leroy Pope Walker.
- Appointed Secretary of War for the Confederate States in February 1861 and resigned the post in September 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in September 1861 and resigned in March 1862. Spent the remainder of the war as an attorney and...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Major Nicholas D. Richardson, C.S.A.
- (Uniform indicates rank of major.) Graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1856. Entered Confederate service as a first lieutenant in Captain Jim Henry Malone's company in 1861. Later became a surgeon for the...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Reverend Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.
- Represented Alabama in the Confederate States Provisional Congress in 1861 and was a member of the Confederate States Congress from 1861 to 1863. Appointed as a lieutenant colonel of the 5th Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Served as the president of...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Reverend Archibald Battle.
- Graduated from the University of Alabama in 1846. Became a Baptist minister in 1853. After the Civil War, Battle served as president of Judson College in Marion, Alabama; Mercer College in Macon, Georgia; and the Anniston Female College in...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Reverend Marshall Harrison Wells.
- Graduated from Florence Wesleyan University (now University of North Alabama) in 1861. Entered the Methodist ministry in 1856. Served as a chaplain with the rank of major in the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Source: Owen,...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Reverend Dr. Edwin Winkler.
- Written on back, "Dr E. T. Winkler Pastor Citadel Square Baptist Church, Charleston S.C." Winkler graduated from Furman University with a D.D. and later an LL.D. in 1858. Ordained Baptist minister in 1846. During the Civil War, Winkler served as...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Reverend Henry Buckner.
- 1871
- Written on photograph, "H.F.B. Aet 53" [aet is Latin for age]. Born near Newport, Tennessee; Baptist minister in Tuscaloosa in 1830s (studied at the University of Alabama). Later became an Indian missionary. Source: Owen, Thomas M. History of...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- John Pelham.
- (In West Point cadet uniform.) Resigned from West Point in April 1861 and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Confederate Artillery shortly afterward. Promoted to major in the summer of 1862. Major campaigns and battles include First...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Colonel Tennant Lomax, C.S.A.
- 1861-1862 circa
- (Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Lomax was promoted to brigadier general in 1862. Major...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Charles Teed Pollard.
- (Photographed in civilian attire.) Enlisted as a private in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. Major campaigns and battles include Seven Pines, Seven Days', and Malvern Hill (wounded). After recovering from his wounds, Pollard...
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection