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- Fannie Mason Potts.
- 1867 January 10
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Colonel Bolling Hall, 59th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A.
- Hall also served as a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Battalion of Hilliard's Legion, C.S.A.
- Alabama Photographs and Pictures Collection
- Poll tax receipt issued to Bolling Hall in Elmore County, Alabama.
- 1920 December 31
- The tax was $1.50 per year.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Thomas Flournoy of Augusta, Georgia, to Bolling Hall.
- 1823 January 3
- In the letter Flournoy says that he is no longer interested in maintaining a plantation, and he asks Hall to purchase some of his slaves: "Lawyers, doctors, & merchants should have nothing to do with plantations & negroes--Overseers are...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Receipt issued to Bolling Hall by the enrolling office of Montgomery County for the impressment of Jupiter, a twenty-five-year-old slave worth $3,000.
- 1864
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Two letters to Bolling Hall, one from his oldest son, Bolling, and the other from his wife, Mary Louisa.
- 1850 June 2
- In the letters, Hall's son and wife discuss family illness, weather, crops, livestock, and slaves on their plantation. Mary also mentions her husband's possible attendance at the convention of delegates from proslavery states in Nashville,...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Andrew Barry Moore in Marion, Alabama, to Bolling Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1850 November 15
- In the letter Moore discusses public sentiment over states' rights violations by the United States Congress: "I trust that public meetings throughout the state, will be held, for the purpose of enlightening the masses, and causing them to...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from John E. Hall at the East Alabama Male College in Auburn, Alabama, to his father, Bolling Hall.
- 1860 November 6
- In the letter John mentions seeing Stephen Douglas pass through town on his way to Montgomery, Alabama, and he discusses the possibility of secession after the presidential election: "The south seems determined to resist in case of Lincolns [sic]...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from James Meeks to Bolling Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1848 August 1
- In the letter Meeks begins by discussing the proposed appointment of Mr. Jones as superintendent in a Methodist congregation in the state. He then asks for Hall's advice in political matters, especially related to the presidential election of 1848:...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Hutson Lee in South Carolina to Bolling Hall in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1858 October 17
- In the letter Lee describes twenty-nine slaves he is selling. He gives specific details about any individuals who are not "sound and capable" or "prime and hearty," and he also mentions parent-child relationships. The price for each slave is $725....
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from David B. Smealey in Autaugaville, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1854 June 21
- In the letter Smealey mentions the possibility of making the Mercury, a newspaper in Autauga County, a Democratic organ: "It is a fixed fact that the paper has to change in some way. If the Democrats do not control it the Whigs will." He also...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from in Leonidas Howard in Autaugaville, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1855 July 17
- In the letter Howard discusses the political scene in the state and country, with emphasis on competition among the Democratic, Whig, and Know-Nothing parties: "In these days of 'Know Nothing' delusions the confidence between man and man is so...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from William F. Samford in Oak Bowery, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1853 November 9
- In the letter Samford discusses his views on the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act: "I see our North. friends are not slow to come up to the issue of non-intervention as made by the Kansas Act; but are we quite cautious enough about the Squatter...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from John E. Hall at the East Alabama Male College in Auburn, Alabama, to his father, Bolling Hall.
- 1860 October 19
- In the letter John writes about his health, family members and acquaintances, and an upcoming fair. He also discusses politics in detail, including the presidential election of 1860: "I have just been reading Yancey's great New York speech. I think...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Bolling Hall at the University of Virginia to his father, Bolling Hall, in Alabama.
- 1860 October 6
- In the letter Bolling describes campus activities and promises to do better in school than he had the previous year, despite his busy social life. He also discusses politics in detail, including the presidential election of 1860 and Virginia's...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from John E. Hall at the East Alabama Male College in Auburn, Alabama, to his father, Bolling Hall.
- 1860 November 11
- In the letter John discusses the tense political climate across the country, the possibility of secession, and the necessity of fighting: "I heard to day [sic] that the latest telegraphic news was that Gov. Wise had been assassinated, Cobb had been...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Bolling Hall at the University of Virginia to his father, Bolling Hall, in Alabama.
- 1861 January 5
- In the letter Bolling discusses his studies at the university; criticism of his father's vote in the Electoral College during the recent presidential election; "troubles in Autaugaville & Prattville among the negroes"; disagreements among Southern...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from A. C. Baker in Wetumpka, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
- 1860 January 24
- In the letter Baker explains that he wishes to clear the debt he owes to Hall, and he arranges a time and place to make the payment. A transcript is included.
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Absalom Jackson to Bolling Hall.
- 1860 February 20
- Hall served as the administrator of the estate of his niece Margaret Bailey, and Jackson had previously thought that his own children deserved a share of the estate. In this letter Jackson reports that according to the law in Alabama, his children...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection
- Letter from Bolling Hall, Jr., at the University of Virginia to his father in Alabama.
- 1860 April 29
- In the letter Bolling gives a detailed account of a recent visit to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. He gives his impression of the structure ("The house is of the strangest plan I ever saw"); describes the poor condition of the burial...
- Alabama Textual Materials Collection