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- Letter from James R. Riggs near Marietta, Georgia, to his sister, Martha Smith.
- 1864 June 14
- During the Civil War, Riggs served in Company G of the 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. In the letter he sends news that their father is sick at the hospital in Macon, Georgia. He also describes recent conflicts in the area ("on the 14 & 15 of...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Excerpts from the narrative reports written by teachers at the Emma MacMillan School in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1954-1955
- The material was assembled by E. F. Holman, principal of the school. In the reports the teachers describe the studies and activities their classes engaged in throughout the school year. Photographs of the students are often included.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from William Riley Jones at a hospital in Mississippi, to his wife, Mary, in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
- 1863 July 17
- 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. In the letter he mentions fighting his regiment is engaged in ("i havant hurd a word from the...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Henry Semple, while on board a steamer en route to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to his wife, Emily, in Gainestown, Alabama.
- 1862 August 6
- During the Civil War, 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 letter he discusses current troop movements and supplies;...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letters from Mary Ann Hall in Providence, Alabama, to her son, Edward, probably in Connecticut or New York.
- 1860 April 26
- In the letter Mary Ann offers her son advice on corresponding with young ladies: "I hope you will never ask a lady (unless a relative) for her narrative untill [sic] you are engaged...young people oftentimes become interested and then attached...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Special order extending the furlough of Bolling Hall, Jr., who was "engaged in recruiting a company of volunteers" in Alabama.
- 1862 February
- Bolling was on furlough from the 6th Alabama Infantry regiment. The company of volunteers he was recruiting would become Co. E, 2nd Battalion, Hilliard's Legion.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- 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,...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Short Stories and Sketches by Bessie Haley Moore, Walker Co.
- Folder contains 7 pages of Alabama short stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Folklore, Dallas County, #3.
- 1936 circa
- Folder contains 18 pages of Alabama folklore and stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Ex Slave Tales, Barbour County, #3.
- 1937 circa
- Folder contains 214 pages of ex-slave tales compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Ex Slave Tales, Sumter County, #4.
- 1936-1939 circa
- Folder contains 267 pages of ex-slave tales compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Folklore, Mobile County, #6.
- 1936-1939 circa
- Folder contains 325 pages of Alabama folklore and stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Folklore, Songs and Legends.
- 1936-1937 circa
- Folder contains 143 pages of Alabama folklore compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Mobile County, Miscellaneous, Mss by Mary Pride Jones.
- 1940 circa
- Folder contains 161 pages of a draft Mobile Guide compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Federal Writers' Project of Alabama, Ex Slave Tales, Narratives.
- '1937-1938 circa
- Folder contains 127 pages of ex-slave tales compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Ethnic, Social Studies, Evans, Foster, Kytle, Rogers.
- 1938 circa
- Folder contains 212 pages on several ethnic groups found in Alabama. These papers were compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- Life Histories, Lowndes County.
- 1938-1939 circa
- 104 pages of ex-slave life histories and stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Short Stories by Helen S. Hartley, Mobile
- 1938-1939 circa
- Folder contains 73 pages of Alabama short stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Folklore, Colbert County, #1.
- 1937-1939 circa
- Folder contains 45 pages of Alabama folklore compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection
- WPA Alabama Writers' Project, Folklore, Russell County, #3.
- 1936-1937 circa
- Folder contains 48 pages of Alabama folklore and stories compiled during the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late-1930s.
- Alabama Writer's Project Collection