Jud Arrington Collection

Civil War

S.F1, D2, Folder 50

• “The Alabama, the Confederate Cruiser’s last engagement, How she was sunk by the Kearsarge off the French Coast” Gainesville Messenger, Friday, July 2, 1886

• Alabama Historical Quarterly, volume 23, 1961, pages 190-205

• Amason, George article

• “A Boy’s Recollection of the Civil War” by W.O. Hart

• “The Brooke Guns from Selma” by Walter W. Stephen from Alabama Historical Quarterly, volume 20, 1958, pages 462-475

• Brown, John E. article

• “Buckner at Fort Donelson” Our Southern Home, October 22, 1896

• “Cannon fired at window and trees across the river” by Judi Johnston, Home Record, article written sometime after 1940

• “Confederate Forces” Livingston Journal, December 3, 1875

• “Confederate Mailmen didn’t always get through” by Paul R. Coppock, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1974

• “The Confederate Note”

• “From a Texas veteran” by W.H. Hodges, The Weekly Press, York, AL, 4-23-1915

• “Gainesville Gleanings” 11/11/1926

• Herr, Captain B.F. article

• Holt, T.G. article

• Houston, Matthew C. article

• Lacy, Captain Elisha article

• “One Confederate Left” Sumter County, 11/11/1926

• “Recollections of a Confederate Private” by S.Q. Hale

• “Reminiscences of a veteran” by B.F. Cobb, Southern Home, 11/10/1901

• “Shiloh’s Battle Field” Livingston Journal, January 12, 1888

• “Some interesting experiences of the Civil War” by B. F. Cobb

• “Strange coincidence, the war began and ended in this house”

• “War as I saw it, 1861-1865” by Frank L. Richardson, Louisiana Historical Quarterly, volume 6, January 1923   

S.F1, D2, Folder 51

Article: 100 Years Ago

S.F1, D2, Folder 52

• Battle of Spotsylvania C.H. as described by the correspondent of the London Herald, Richmond, May 25, 1864

• Casualties: October 3, 1865, Chickamauga - Sumter Warriors

• List of Alabamians removed from the Battlefield of Chickamauga and vicinity to the State Cemetery at Marietta, Georgia including names, company, and regiment, Livingston Journal, March 22, 1872

• Location and classification and dates of military events in Alabama, 1861-1865, an official publication of the Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission

S.F1, D2, Folder 53

• Census or enumeration of Confederate Soldiers residing in Alabama, 1907 – Sumter County

S.F1, D2, Folder 54

• Confederate Bonds

S.F1, D2, Folder 55

• 123 burials in Confederate Section of Old Cemetery, Gainesville, AL

• Confederate Burials volume VI, compiled by Robert E. Smith, Gainesville City Cemetery

• Civil War soldiers buried in unmarked graves in Boyd Cemetery

• Confederate Veterans buried in Siloam

• Confederate Veterans buried in York Cemetery

• Graves of Alabama Confederates, James W. Jennings, January 19, 1880

• Memorial services held at [York] Cemetery last Sunday PM, Sumter County Journal, June 9, 1932

• Odd Fellows

• Some Confederate Burials, Myrtlewood Cemetery, Livingston, AL

• Some Confederate Burials, Shady Grove Cemetery, Sumter County

• Williams Cemetery

• Williams – Gibbs Cemetery

S.F1, D2, Folder 56

Correspondence

• An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication, Washington, July 21, 1866

• Executive Department letter about War Tax from John Gill Shorter, May 21, 1862

• Head Quarters 3d military district orders no. 1, Montgomery, AL, April 1, 1867

• Letter from F. M. Ramer, circa July 1, 1882

• Letter from Gainesville, AL, April 27, 1865

• Letter from Codger, Vicksburg, MS, 1862

• Proclamation by Alabama Governor John Gill Shorter, March 1, 1862

• Proclamation to all soldiers in this department absent from their commands without leave from Lieut. Gen. Polk in Demopolis, April 16, 1864

S.F1, D2, Folder 57

Davis, Jefferson

• “Jefferson Davis”, an address by Honorable John H. Pinson, Geiger, AL

• Jefferson Davis’ capture by William Preston Johnson

S.F1, D2, Folder 58

Deserters

• “Canty’s Brigade”, a list of deserters and a notice of the thirty dollars reward that will be paid for their capture 

S.F1, D2, Folder 59

Forest, Nathan Bedford

• Campaigns of General Forest

• “Clash of Genius: Forest vs. Wilson in the Nashville Campaign” William S. Fitzgerald, Confederate Veteran, January – February 1992

• Dennis, Elias Smith biography

• “Forest at Brice’s Crossroads” Richard Chace, Southern Partisan

• “Forest Monument Unveiling” Our Southern Home, April 25, 1923

• “General Forrest’s last speech” Our Southern Home, July 7, 1909

• “General Nathan Bedford Forrest [issues last order]” Gainesville Dispatch, Nov. 22, 1877

• “Historic Old Gainesville” Southern Home, Jan. 24, 1923

• Jackson, William “Red” Hicks biography

• McCollum, Capt. D surrender paper

• New International Encyclopedia article, 1917

• “Unveiling of Forrest monument” Our Southern Home, 3/28/1923

S.F1, D2, Folder 60

Freedmen’s Bureau/ Relief Efforts

• Circular no. 10 from the War Department, August 22, 1868

• Commissioner Cruikshank’s letter about delivering supplies to the indigent

• families of the state, February 1, 1866 

• Commissioner Cruikshank’s letter about rations, March 30, 1866

• Families of Soldiers 1865

• Ration returns for destitute citizens for March and June 1866

• Survey of Families for Relief, Confederate Soldiers, Sumter County, AL, 1865

S.F1, D2, Folder 61

Hospitals

• Buckner Hospital, Gainesville, AL

• Confederate Hospital at Lauderdale, MS

• Deaths of Confederate Soldiers in Confederate Hospitals, Gainesville, AL

• Gainesville’s 3 Hospitals

• Memories of Fannie A. Beers, Buckner Hospital, Gainesville, AL

• Old Academy, Yankee Street, Gainesville, AL, used as a hospital during the Civil War

• “Reavis Hospital” August 9, 1862

• Red Warehouse Lot

• “Red Warehouse Hospital” Gainesville Independent, June 28, 1962

S.F1, D2, Folder 62

Maps

• Battles of Chancellorsville, Salem Church, and Fredericksburg, May 2-4, 1863

• Battlefields of Virginia, 1898

• Railroads of the Civil War, circa 1861

• War in Alabama, 1861-1865

S.F1, D2, Folder 63

Miscellaneous

• “Civil War Centennial Celebration Saturday at Gainesville Site”, Sumter County Journal, May 13, 1965

• Douglas and Lincoln on the Negro

• Sales receipts for some bacon, Confederate States, 1865

• “Welcome to Sumter County’s Civil War Centennial” May 15, 1965, Gainesville 

• “Why President Lincoln was assassinated” Gainesville News, Dec. 17, 1870

S.F1, D2, Folder 64

Monuments

• Allison, William name added to Confederate Monument in Livingston

• Chapel dedicated to Confederacy, Sumter County Sun, August 29, 1912

• Confederate Monument, Our Southern Home, May 6, 1908

• Confederate Monument at Livingston, Sumter County, AL, June 30, 1909

• Confederate Square Cemetery, Gainesville, AL

• Gun raised for glory, Don McDaniel, Tuscaloosa News, August 31, 1995

• Letter from Jud Arrington to James Harris about the names on the Confederate Monument and the Stonewall Rangers

• Names of Civil War Veterans on Confederate Monument

• Sumter Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy list, Our Southern Home, July 7, 1909

• Unveiling of Confederate Monument, Gainesville Times, June 9, 1909

• Unveiling of Confederate Monument, Our Southern Home, June 9, 1909

• Unveiling of Confederate Monument at Livingston, Sumter County Call

S.F1, D2, Folder 65

Pensions

• Confederate Pensions granted document, no date

• Confederate Pensioners, Southern Home, March 13, 1935

• Confederate Pensioners of Sumter County, Southern Home, 1/27/1926

• List of Confederate pensioners of Sumter County, AL on January 1, 1923

• Names of parties on the pension list of Sumter County, AL, Southern Home, January 15, 1920

• Names of parties on the pension list of Sumter County, AL, Southern Home, January 28, 1920

• Pensioners, Southern Home, 11/13/1901

S.F1, D2, Folder 66

Poll Lists

• A list of the votes for President, Vice President, and Congressman, November 1861

• Brewersville

• Cuba

• Intercourse

• Jones Bluff

• Livingston

• Warsaw 

S.F1, D2, Folder 67

Prisoners of War

• 42,293 from the Army of the Department of Alabama, General Richard Taylor surrendered and were released on parole Nov. 22, 1865, Battles and leaders of the Civil War, Vol. IV

• Roll of Prisoners of War surrendered and paroled at Gainesville, May 9, 1865

• Roster of the North Sumter Rifles

S.F1, D2, Folder 68

Reconstruction

• “Billings contemplated raid on Alabama”, Livingston Journal, September 18, 1871

• The Billings Murder, Livingston Journal, August 7, 1874

• [The Billings Murder], Livingston Journal, August 21, 1874

• Choutteau – Coblentz Affair, Gainesville News, August 19, 1869

• Conyngham letter, April 8, 1867

• Conyngham letter, April 16, 1867

• General Hardee’s letter about freight, April 19, 1867

• General Orders from SC. Greene, November 9, 1867

• General Orders from Wager Swayne

• Special Orders, June 29, 1867

• Patton, Meline, and Green letter, June 11, 1867

• Price, Daniel’s letter to the judge, July 13, 1870

• Slanders Refuted, Livingston Journal, August 28, 1874

• Special orders, no. 56, June 29, 1867

• Stanbery, Henry and R.M. Patton letter, July 24, 1867

• Swayne, Wager letter, May 15, 1867

• Williams letter, July 3, 1867

S.F1, D2, Folder 69

Soldiers

• The Bigbee Guards

• Brief historical sketches of military organizations raised in Alabama during the Civil War

• Casualties, June 28, 1862

• Company A – 35^th Mississippi regiment roll

• Company A. – 36^th Alabama Regiment

• Company C of the 54^th Alabama regiment (1861) membership roll

• Company D, Jeff Davis Legion Roster

• Gainesville Rifles organization, December 24, 1859

• The Griffin Rifle Company of DeSotoville, AL

• List of killed and wounded, Gainesville Independent, July 12, 1862

• North Sumter Rifles roster, Gainesville Independent, March 15, 1862

• North Sumter Troopers, Gainesville Independent, August 1, 1863

• South Sumter Guards

• Stonewall Rangers, Gainesville Independent, September 12, 1863

• Sumter Warriors, Gainesville Independent, March 15, 1862

S.F1, D2, Folder 70

Soldiers, 36^th Alabama Infantry

• 36^th Alabama Infantry, “Sumter County Warriors”

• Another look at Henry Wentz

• Braxton Bragg and the Army of Tennessee

• Kopple’s Korner

• Thoughts from the second sergeant’s stool

• Westbrook Cub Scouts Pack 38 – Blue and Gold Celebration

• “Wit and wisdom of the Civil War” Soldiers and the homefront

• ’93 Schedule of events

• 40^th Alabama regiment camp, March 21, 1864

• Gainesville Rifles organization, December 24, 1859

• Governor’s proclamation, March 1, 1862

• Historical Sketch of the 36^th Alabama Infantry Regiment, 1862 – 1865, by William Stanley Hoole, Confederate Veteran III, 206, July, 1895

• The New Company, March 15, 1862

• The New Company casualties, June 28, 1862

• The New Company list of killed and wounded, Gainesville Independent, July 12, 1862

• North Sumter Rifles, June 22, 1861

• North Sumter Rifles casualties, September 29, 1862

• “Sumter Warriors” Gainesville Independent, March 1, 1862

• “Sumter Warriors” Gainesville Independent, March 15, 1862

• Sumter Warriors list

• “Sumter Warriors” Gainesville Independent, October 3, 1863

• Sumter Warriors casualties at Chickamauga, October 3, 1865

S.F1, D2, Folder 70.1

Soldiers:  North Sumter Rifles

• Rosters

• Flags

• Casualties

S.F1, D2, Folder 71        

Soldiers – miscellaneous

• 5^th Alabama, Col. R. E. Rhodes, Organized in Montgomery

• Chickamauga

• Company A, 5^th Battalion, Alabama volunteer infantry, Army of Northern

• Virginia, Sumter County, AL North Sumter Rifles, Muster roll including later enlistments and tranS.Fers, organized at Gainesville, AL May 26, 1861

• Company C

• Company K

• Confederate Soldiers killed or died in service (one page list)

• Dent’s Company, Company G. 5^th Alabama partial list

• Gay, Ann thank you note to Jud Arrington

• Harwell, Private James Daniel parole order

• Index cards

• 5^th Alabama Battalion

• 8^th Alabama Cavalry

• 8^th Alabama Infantry

• Confederate Soldiers

• Confederate materials

• Officers of Companies assembled at Demopolis

• List [of soldiers, I assume]

• Kirkland, William from Spratt’s History of Livingston

• Names of men going to War Between the States from Old Payneville

• Stone’s Company, Company D, Jeff Davis Legion of Cavalry, first organized as Sumter Mounted Rifles

• Sumter County, AL C.S.A. units

• Youngest Confederate Veteran, Sumter County Sentinel, August 19, 1899

S.F1, D2, Folder 72

Soldiers – 40^th Alabama Regiment

• The 40^th Alabama, Mobile Evening News, June 24, 1864

• 40^th Alabama Regiment, Mobile Evening News, June 24, 1864

• 40^th Alabama Regiment Camp list of people who were not allowed to vote and wanted to express their preferences for J.W. Manett for Sheriff of Sumter County, March 21, 1864

• Company C, 40^th Alabama Infantry, The McCulloch Avengers, Sumter County, 1862 – 1865, roster of officers and privates

• The flag of the 40^th Alabama, Livingston Journal, June 22, 1894

• Flags of the 40^th Alabama Infantry

• Index card, 40^th Alabama Regiment

• Memorandum by a private of the 40^th Alabama beginning with May 6, 1864 and ending with August 28^th 1864

• Military organizations raised in Alabama during the Civil War from booklet by Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission - 1962

• Some reminiscences in the 40^th Alabama regiment, Cuba Banner, April 1895

S.F1, D2, Folder 72.1

Civil War: Veterans

• “Andersonville as it was”, Livingston Journal, 2-14-1876

• Confederate Re-Union, Livingston Journal, July 18, 1890

• Confederate Soldiers Reunion, Sumter County, AL October 14 & 15, 1889, list of ex Confederates registered for this event and their former units

• Confederate Veterans Association – Sumter County, AL, Livingston Journal, July 31, 1891

• Confederate Veterans of Kemper County, Nicholson – Smith

• “Death of Confederate Veteran”, Our Southern Home, Oct. 29, 1924

• “Last Confederate Veteran passes away at Cuba”, Sumter County Journal, May 6, 1943

• List of Confederate Veterans living in Sumter County, Southern Home, Oct. 23, 1901, continued Oct. 30, 1901

• List of Confederate Veterans living in Sumter County, 1907

• List of ex Confederates registered for something

• Picture of Sumter County Confederate Veterans – 1899, taken at Livingston

• Reunion of ex Confederate Soldiers, Sumter County, AL, Livingston Journal, Oct. 25, 1889

• “The Veterans”, Livingston Journal, 7-18-1890

S.F1, D2, Folder 72.2

Civil War: United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Confederate Veteran, no. 8, 1915

• Lineage Book of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, volume 1 A-C compiled under the direction of Maud McLure Kelly

• List of some names omitted from the roster of the Sumter Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Livingston, AL, July 7, 1909

• Southern Cross of Honor, general information

S.F1, D2, Folder 73

• Weapons

• Brooke guns, 8 inch smooth bore

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