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Date: 1864-10-11 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The order was to “increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities…”. The document includes the numbers of slaves that needed to be obtained from each county “in order to make up the twenty-five hundred required for the State”. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Creator: Oxford, A.C. Date: 1866 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Photograph of Blount Springs in Blount County, Alabama in 1866. Handwritten text surrounding the photograph: "Blount Springs in 1866. The old pavilion was erected between 1850 and 1855. The exact date not known." Photograph from A. C. Oxford's scrapbook of photographs, 1916. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Creator: Oxford, A.C. Date: 1866 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Photograph of the furnaces of the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad in Selma, Alabama in 1866. Photograph from A. C. Oxford's scrapbook of photographs, 1916. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Creator: Oxford, A.C. Date: 1869 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Photograph of the First Presbyterian Church in Selma, Alabama, on Dallas Avenue and Broad Street in 1869. Organized in 1838, today the church is called Cornerstone Presbyterian Church. Photograph from A. C. Oxford's scrapbook of photographs, 1916. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1862-01-07 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: L. L. Prince writes: “Mr. Knot and Edmond thinks our little wagon might stick in the mud so I will not send it. The grown ones [slaves] can walk.” Oliver Prince lived in Spring Hill, near Demopolis, Marengo County. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1862 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Part of the letter reads "We disapprove and abhor all unauthorized and illegal war, and we believe that citizens who fire into railway trains, attack the guards of bridges, destroy the telegraph lines, and fire from concealment upon pickets, deserve and should receive the punishment of death." View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1865-02-13 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The certificate was for a $1,500 loan to the Tuscaloosa County Commissioners to buy corn for soldiers’ families. Food shortages in the Confederate States towards the end of the Civil War caused the price of food to increase by 10%. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1869 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: The sale took place on November 17, 1869. The land was a part of the estate of Edmund Prince, near Spring Hill, Marengo County, Alabama. View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1867-09-19 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: Following the Civil War, to register to vote, a voter had to take the oath of allegiance to the United States government and to swear that he or she had never supported the Confederate States of America. The names of the two individuals that signed these two oaths are Meriday Sprigs and F. J. McA... View Full Item at Samford University Library -
Date: 1861 Contributing Institution: Samford University Library Description: In the oath, William A. Berkshire "renounces all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate or sovereignty whatever, and particularly to the Government of the United States". View Full Item at Samford University Library