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Ann
Harwell Gay Collection
Working papers of Ann Gay for the writing of: “Choctaw,
Sumter and Washington Counties’ C.S.A. Companies. Compiled by Ann Harwell Gay,
Meridian, MS, Brown Printing Company, Copyright 2003.
Located in the Julia Tutwiler Library Alabama Room, Ala. Coll. 976.1395 G25ch.
SF4 D1 Folder 1:
Brown, Reynolds,
Praytor
1.
Pictures:
Alfred Creighton Reynolds husband of Ella Brown and David Campbell White husband
of Addie Beatrice Brown
2.
Postcard to
Mrs. Ann Gay from Julia K. Ivey
3.
Letter to
Mrs. Gay from Margaret K. Reynolds, Feb. 23, 1996, about the
pictures—relationships and other information.
4.
“My
Confederate Ancestors” renamed from “What my family contributed to the War for
Southern Independence”. Handwritten transcript from History of the Kentucky
Orphan Brigade, p. 659, in letter from State Librarian, Mrs. Ew?? Cromwell,
February 20, 1939. Civil War service of Alfred Creighton Reynolds and David
Campbell White.
5.
Letter to
Julia K “Enclosed are the last of your negatives”
6.
Praytor
family records:
§
CSA Records
by Ann H. Gay. Praytor family members living during the Civil War period—births
death’s etc.
§
Julia
Praytor Killingsworth, father Hugh Boyd Praytor, paternal grandfather James
Thomas Praytor
§
From:
Praytor Family Bulletin II complied by Julia P. Killingsworth, 1970. Time
period 1793-1912.
§
John Brown
and Juliana Ann Windham Family Group Record.
§
Lewis S.
Brown Family Group Record.
§
Miscellaneous—family information of Jeremiah H. Brown and Julia Hinds Brown.
§
Other men
related to JEB by marriage—Jesse Womack, James H. Mitchell.
§
John Evander
Brown and Mary Jane Godfrey Family Group Record.
7.
Correspondence: Julia K. Ivey and Ann H. Gay
§
Brown family
during the Civil War period.
§
Manuscript
Copy: Personal Biography of Mrs. Burton G. Killingsworth (Julia Olive Praytor),
The Cedars, Sumterville, AL, attached is a Newspaper article “She combines the
best of the old-fashioned and up-to-date Americans” by John Neel, The Home
Record, Livingston, AL, August 17, 1977.
§
Lt. Colonel
Charles Somerville Stewart, CSA, husband of Julia Ann Brown (1 page with brief
family information)
§
Lt. J. T.
Jackson, son of Jacinth & Prudence Jackson, CSA. Birth, death, and burial
information.
§
Letter from
Ann Gay to Julia K. Ivey with list of Sumter County, AL Browns who served in the
CSA Forces.
§
Letter to
Julian. “In reply to your letter about our ancestor John Evander Brown, I find
this information from my thesis, “A Social and Economic history of Sumter
County, Alabama, In the Antebellum Period” University, Alabama 1948.
§
From pages
33-34, Slavery in
Alabama,
unpublished but copyrighted theses by James B. Sellers.
§
John E.
Brown tax list 1860
8. Incomplete
copy from the papers of Julia P. Killingsworth, on the “War of Southern
Independence” with information on the conditions in the South and Sumter County
before and during the Civil War.
9. From J. P.
Killingsworth files, “Tales told me”
10.
Several
pages of Brown family information.
11.
Related
Brown Men on CSA Monument.
12.
Julia K.
Ivey has slide picture of these men taken later in life: John Lewis Brown, J.
G. Harris, Dr. R.M. Harris, Alfred C. Reynolds.
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SF4 D1 Folder 2:
Papers/Letters from Sumter Countians in Duke University Library Special
Collections Collection.
1. DeVotie,
James H., papers. Letters: 1843, May 9, and 1847, Feb. 15, about Baptist
Church in Gainesville.
2. Mellown,
Elgin Wendell, 1904-1975. Papers, 1939-1969
3. Nicholson,
William S. Papers, 1852-1853, Brewerville, Sumter Co., Alabama
4. Winston,
John A. John A. Winston and Company (Mobile, AL) Letters, 1851-1854
5. Davis, James
Jackson, Papers Letters: 1862, July 5, 9
6. Pettigrew,
Ebenezer Family Letters. 1833-1850. Sumterville.
SF4 D1 Folder 3:
Sumter County
Alabama—Photos by Paul L. Gay, Butler
SF4 D1 Folder 4:
Confederate Monument at
Livingston, Wednesday, June 30, 1909.
SF4 D1 Folder 5:
Shorter Guards,
Livingston, Sumter County, Ala, March 31st, 1862
SF4 D1 Folder 6:
Muster Rolls
SF4 D1 Folder 7:
List of the Officers &
members of a Volunteer company organized in Gainesville, Alabama on Monday the
15th day of July 1861 under the act entitled “…To provide for an
efficient military organization of the State of Alabama”, named the “North
Sumter Minute Men”
SF4 D1 Folder 8:
Voter rolls for
elections of Confederate States and Alabama, 1861
SF4 D1 Folder 9:
Muster Roll of Captain
N.R.E. Ferguson, 5 Ala. Co. C, Dec. 1863-March 1864.
SF4 D1 Folder 10:
Livingston Ala March
1?, 1860. Papers and letters concerning the Sumter Mounted Guards.
SF4 D1 Folder 11:
Hand written Muster
Role of the Sumter Rifle Guards
SF4 D1 Folder 12:
Hand written Papers and
Correspondence concerning the Sumter Rifle Guards May 1861
SF4 D1 Folder 13:
Letter to certify
elected officers of the Alabama Volunteer Corps, March 8th, 1861 from
Jas. J. Hutchinson, Secretary of Livingston Rifles. Certification of
commissions to John H. Dent, ? J. Hamill, R. U. Bryan, C. A. Chandler,? ? Potts,
Stephen M. Potts, James ?, signed by Secretary of State A. B. Moore..
SF4 D1 Folder 14:
Sumter in the Civil War
– S. H. Sprott, pages 10-11. 40 Ala Co. A.
SF4 D1 Folder 15:
“Sumter in the Civil
War”, Sprott, Our Southern Home Livingston, 1899?
SF4 D1 Folder 16:
Billings, W. P. (Sumter
County) Articles on murder of Mr. Billings.
SF4 D1 Folder 17:
Brett, Calvin (Sumter
County)
SF4 D1 Folder 18:
Wrenn, Nelson,
incomplete article, author unknown.
SF4 D1 Folder 19:
Jeff Davis Legion Co D,
August 10, 1861
SF4 D1 Folder 20:
Muster Roll of Captain
C. S. Gulley?, March 17, 1862.
SF4 D1 Folder 21:
Muster Roll of W.A.C,
Jones, Company of the “McCullock Avengers”
SF4 D1 Folder 22:
Muster Roll of J. V.
Tutt Ball-Hatch Cavalry: 8 Alabama Cavalry Co. C.
December 5, 1863.
SF4 D1 Folder 23:
List of officers &
volunteer company (State Troops, Independents Co. Ala. Volunteers) in
Gainesville, Alabama, July 15th, 1861
SF4 D1 Folder 24:
4th Rgt.
Ala. Militia Co. A/F. Livingston Sumter Co. Ala March 31st 1862.
Roll of Officers &
Privates of “Sumter Mounted Guards” (Jeff Davis Legion?) March 8 1860
SF4 D1 Folder 25:
List of names—The
Following endorsed Lt. J. W. Monette for Sheriff of Sumter Co. April 16, 1864.
SF4 D1 Folder 26:
Muster Roll 36 Al. Co.
A, May 13, 1862
SF4 D1 Folder 27:
“List of the Killed and
Wounded in the 5th Ala. Reg” … Beacon, June 27, 1862, Number
24
SF4 D1 Folder 28:
Census of Enumeration
of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907.
SF4 D1 Folder 29:
Other Documents
1. Choctaw
County Alabama, Established Dec. 29, 1847. Place Names in
Choctaw County,
Alabama by Ann H. Gay.
SF4 D1 Folder 30:
Civil War Pictures
1.
Colonel
Ezekiel S. Gully,
Sumter
County 40th Alabama
Infantry Company A
2.
Captain
Charles S. Stewart (Confederate States of America) Sumterville, Alabama.
Picture taken 1861
3.
Sumter
County Confederate Veterans—1899 (Picture taken at Livingston, Alabama) original
picture in possession of Mrs. O. K. Murray, Gainesville, Alabama
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SF4 D1
Notebook: Sumter
County Alabama, C.S.A. ERA
Donated by Ann H. Gay,
Butler, Alabama. With some information incorporated into book. Choctaw,
Sumter, and Washington Counties’ C.S.A. Companies.
Some information here
from Jud K. Arrington, York and Elizabeth Stegall, Sumterville.
Muster Rolls from
Alabama Dept. Archives & History.
Pension List from
Sumter Probate Office. Note: all pictures and certificates are copies.
First Section
1. Picture:
John Evander Brown, Jr.
2. Picture:
John Anthony Winston, Governor of Alabama 1853-1857., 8th Ala. Inf.,
first Ala. Command to enlist “for the war”
3. Picture:
1856 Charles S. Stewart possibly Mobile Cadets uniform (militia) Charles S.
Stewart in CSA uniform (grey).
4. Pictures:
Captain Charles S. Stewart, (Confederate States of America) Sumterville,
Alabama. Picture taken 1861
5. Picture:
Clara Brown Lurton Randall (daughter of John E. Brown) youngest,
Charles S. Stewart 1856
6. Pictures:
Capt. James V. Tutt, Co. C. 5th AL Cavalry Sumter County and Capt.
James V. Tutt and Family. Note with family members identified.
7. Pictures:
William Thomas Harwell, Jeff Davis Legion of Cavalry Co. D and Capt. James V.
Tutt, 5th AL Cavalry Co., C & 8th AL Cavalry Co. C.
8. Parole
certificate, Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 1863. James Daniel Harwell, CSA,
Prisoner of War in the hands of the United States Forces …
9. Picture:
Colonel Ezekiel S. Gully, Sumter County, 40th Alabama Infantry,
Company A.
10.
Picture:
William Frierson Fulton II, 1860
11.
U.S. Oath of
Allegiance & Transportation, Edward C. Sanders of Gainesville, Ala.
12.
Prison
Discharge, E. C. Sanders of Gainesville, Ala., May 26th 1865.
13.
Proclamation
Oath, Josiah Collins, 7th August, 1865.
14.
Picture
(2): Sumter County Confederate Veterans, 1899
15.
Letter to
Mr. Jud K. Arrington from Ann H. Gay thanking him for information and requesting
additional information. Answers to the questions.
16.
From The
Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, Volume I,
1854. List of 1854 merchants in Alabama Counties; Russell, Randolph, Sumter,
Tallapoosa, Talladega, Tuskaloosa, Wilcox.
17.
Post card
from Tut Altman Riddick, Mobile, April 15, 1995, to Mrs. Gay. Information on
his grandfather William Altman, who was killed in the Civil War.
18.
Letter from
Jud Arrington, March 18, 1995, to Ann (Gay) with answers to questions she had
asked about Edward E. Arrington.
19.
Sumter
County, AL Browns who served in the CSA Forces, compiled by Ann H. Gay 1995
20.
Correspondence between Ann H. Gay, Norma Campbell Simmons, and Robert McGregor
Campbell concerning picture of Col. Ezekiel Gulley and Burial place of Robert
McGregor Campbell, who was an officer in the Civil War.
21.
Ty Hardin,
Chattanooga, TN, 4-10-95. Information on Culpepper and Hardin ancestors who
were in the 40 Ala. Co. CSA.
22.
“One
Confederate Left”, Sumter County, AL. Two articles from
Gainesville
area newspaper, 11/11/1926. Death notice of Mr. Gray Ellis, Gainesville, and
last remaining CSA veteran C. S. Williams, Gainesville.
23.
Information
from Dr. Johnny Walton Ward, May 19, 1995 concerning grandfathers Gilbert
Dearmon Hitt (name uncertain) and John Pennington Walton Tait? (Tate?)
24.
“Capt. W. A.
C. Jones”, Our Southern Home, Livingston, Ala., Aug. 28, 1911, on life
and death of Capt. Jones. Letter to Mrs. Gay from David S. Neel, Jr with
information of Sumter county CSA companies. Letters from Mrs. Gay to David Neel
requesting picture of William Alexander Campbell Jones.
25.
Email from
Joseph F. Stegall to Ann Gay with mention of Andrew M. Moore from Sumterville,
William G. Little who lived in Warsaw, William Gray Little buried in the Shady
Grove Cemetery, and A.D. Hall who voted in Gainesville before the War.
26.
James T.
Palmer, age 6: “Youngest Confederate Veteran”, The Sumter County Sentinel,
August 19, 1899 – P: 4 Col, 2.
27.
George
Norris Rainer, “Last Confederate Veteran Passes Away in Cuba”,
Sumter County Journal,
May 6, 1943 – P: 1 Col, 6.
28.
Letters from
Joseph F. Stegall to Mrs. Ann Gay with information on Charles Stewart.
29.
Letter to
Mrs. Gay from Mildred Dearman
30.
Information
on Thomas Elnathan Tartt and family.
31.
Treasury
Department, Third Auditor’s Office, May 16 18??, verifying that Robert Hill
served in the Tennessee Militia.
32.
Certificate
from A. B. Moore Governor of Alabama appointing George B. Saunders Sheriff of
Sumter County, June 18th, 1861, “and of the Independence of the
Confederate States of America, First year.
Second Section
1. Sumter Co.
orig – Muster Roll, Aug 29, 1863
2. Family
Record and War Reminiscences by William Frierson Fultin II. List of Members of
North Sumter County Rifles Company A, 5th Ala. Battalion Archer’s
Brigade A. P. Hill’s Division.
3. Roster of
the North Sumter Rifles, Co. A of the Fifth Alabama Battn.
4. “North
Sumter Rifles”
Names on roster after re-organization. Not on original list when Company was
formed at Warsaw, April 25, 1861.
5. “North
Sumter Rifles”,
Gainesville Independent”,
April 27, 1861 – Page: 2
Col: 1
6. “North
Sumter Rifles”,
Gainesville Independent”,
October 25, 1862, Page 1. List of commissioned officers of the North Sumter
Rifles.
7. “North
Sumter Rifles”, Men on original Roster of Company when organized at Warsaw,
April 25, 1861 and not on Roster when RE-organized.
8. Casualties,
29 Sept., 1862, North Sumter Rifles.
9. “North
Sumter Rifles Flag”, carried to Confederate Reunion in Birmingham, April 25 and
26, 1894 by Mr. T.M. Long of Gainesville. From Scrapbook of Sallie Chiles
Mitchell.
10.
Roster of
the North Sumter Rifles, from Centennial Program at Gainesville 1965.
11.
“North
Sumter Rifles”, Our Southern Home. Roll of the company with those killed
indicated. By Mr. L. T. Ormond of Sumterville, asking survivors to contact
him. He wants “to know where the boys are”, Meridian1900 (3 copies)
12.
Notice from
Mr. W. H. Lawrence, Editor, Southern Home with list of men who joined the
company in Virginia. “North Sumter Rifles”, Our
Southern Home.,
Mobile, March 10th, 1900 to Mr. L.T. Ormond from Jno. R. Tompkins
informing Mr. Ormond that his brother James M. Tompkins served in the North
Sumter Rifles and died in battle at Gaines Mills, June 27th, 1863.
(3 copies0
13.
“North
Sumter Rifles”, List of men who joined the company in
Virginia.
14.
Copies of
hand written letters:
§
Organization
of “Gainesville Rifles” (later North Sumter Rifles, 5AL Co. A), 24 Dec 1859.
§
Proclamation
by Governor of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala. 1 Mar 1862, concerning the duties
imposed upon Confederate States and closing of ports to markets of the world.
Signed by John Gill Shorter Gov. of Ala and P.H. Brittan Sec. Of State.
15.
Casualties,
28 June 1862. Letter from battlefield neara Ruchmond.
16.
Newspaper
articles:
§
“Company D,
Fifth Alabama, C.S.A.; A complete list of the original company, with those
recruited later, 21 of these were from the “Warrior Guards,” of Tuscaloosa.
Some Interesting Facts And Data, As Compiled By Capt. J. W. Williams.
§
“Pen
Sketches of the “Greensboro Guards,” Co. D. of Fifth Alabama. C.S.A.;
Interesting Data By One Who Was There”. One of a Series of Articles by Capt. J.
W. Williams.
§
Battles
Around “The Bloody Angle”; “The Greensboro Guards” Co. D. Fifth Ala., at the
Battle of Spottsylvania Court House”. A Thrilling Sketch by Capt. J. W.
Williams.
§
“Company D.
at the Battle of the Wilderness; Sketches of the “Greensboro Guards, Co. D.
Fifth Alabama, C.A.A., by one of them”. One of a Series of Articles by Capt. J.
W. Williams.
Third Section
1. From:
Gainesville Independent – 15 March 1862, Roll of new Company. “Sumter
Warriors”
2. From:
Gainesville Independent – 15 March 1862. “The New Company”, On the
Sumter
County Warriors.
3. “Sumter
Warriors” Sheet No. 2 (list of names)
4. “The New
Company” Sheet No. 2 missing, Sheet 3
5. Casualties:
Oct. 3, 1865
6. Roster
Company C. 40th
Alabama
Infantry. Listing by rank.
7. Excerpt
from: History of Company B; 40th Alabama Regiment Confederate
States Army 1862 to 1865, E. D. Willett. This book is the diary of E. D.
Willett. Alabama Collection 973.41 H629.
8. Company C
40th Alabama Infantry Sumpter County 1862-1865, “ The McColloch
Avengers”, Ty Hardin, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
9. Letter to
Mr. Levin Culpepper from Ty Hardin, June 28, 1993
10.
Hand written
list of names of the 40th Alabama, Co. A
11.
South
Sumter Guards (40
AL
Co. A) Formed at
Intercourse – 4th March 1862.
12.
Chickamauga
Stones Batt: - Co. A
13.
40th
Ala Regiment Camp, 21 Mar 1864 (Co. C)
14.
Newspaper
article: 40th
Alabama,
Livingston Journal – 11/4/1881.
15.
Alabama
Historical Quarterly, Volume Seventeen-1955, pages. 158-165. “A History of
Company B, 40th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. From the Diary of J. H.
Curry of Pickens County.
16.
Livingston Journal
June 22, 1894. The Flas of the 40th Ala, by E.S. Gulley.
17.
Roster
Co. “D” Jeff Davis Legion
18.
Stonewall
Rangers from
“Gainesville Independent” – September 12, 1863.
19.
Answers
to questions about Civil War Companies,
from Jud Arrington
Fourth Section
1. Letter to
Hon. John Gill Shorter, Governor of Alabama from A. W. Dillard, Judge,
Livingston, April 3, 1862. Asking the governor withdraw an order for 200 men
from the county.
2. Notes by Ann
H. Gay after visit with Kitty Harrison, Gainesville.
3. “Monument at
Gainesville, Ala.” and “Last Shots in Battle of Nashville” Confederate
Veteran, April 1899 Vol. 7 (2 copies)
4. Confederate
Veterans Association –
Sumter
County Alabama. From
Livingston Journal – July 31, 1891. (2 copies)
5. Pension
Book, Sumter County. (Record of applications for pensions of Counfederate
Veterans and Widows in Sumter Bounty)
6. Survey of
Families for Relief Confederate Soldiers Sumter County,
Ala. 1865
7. Military
Organizations Raised in
Alabama
During the Civil War
8. The Brooks
guns from Selma by Walter W. Stephens p. 467, Alabama Historical Quarterly
Volume Twenty 1958.
9. List of
hospitals from Confederate Medicine page 142
10.
Note on Dr.
Wm Jack McMahon
11.
“Kust if
Alabamians Removed from the Battlefield of Chickamauga and vicinity to the State
Cemetery at Marietta, Georgia” and “ Some Reminiscences, 40th Ala.
Regiment”, Livingston Journal, Sumter County, Ala Friday, March 22nd
1872.
12.
“A Boy’s
Recollection of the Civil War; Former Gainesville Boy Writes of His experiences
Following a Company of Troopers”, by W. O Hart.
13.
Battle of
Spottsylvania C. H.,
Richmond, May 25, 1864. The Battle described by the correspondent of the London
Herald.
14.
Jefferson
Davis Capture”, The Version Authorized by the Ex-Confederate President, by
William Preston Johnson.
15.
“Confederate
Monument”, Our Southern Home, Livingston, Ala, May 6, 1908.
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