BPL Archives - War And Wartime

FAUNSDALE PLANTATION Papers [Marengo County, Alabama plantation; papers include diaries and correspondence relating to the war in Alabama and Virginia]

GRACE FAMILY Papers [includes Civil War recollections of Francis Mitchell Grace of Jefferson County, Alabama]

GRAHAM, NEEDHAM ALEXANDER Civil War Diary [Company H, 3rd Alabama Volunteers]

HARPER FAMILY Papers, 1856-1863 [Mississippi and Arkansas family]

HERBERT, HILLARY A. History of the 8th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment, CSA Scrapbook, circa 1905

JETER, SARAH MATILDA CLAYTON Diary and Correspondence, 1860-1864

JOHNSTON, GEORGE H. Papers [Co. E, 1st Massachusetts]

JOLLEE, M.B. Bound Volume, 1863-1864 [Confederate Quartermaster Corps in Alabama]

KELLY, SAMUEL CAMP Diary, 1862-1865 [Alabama native; Confederate officer]

MANLY, BASIL AND R. FULLER MANLY Correspondence, 1861-1867

MARTIN, FRED R. Scrapbooks on Americana

McADORY, I.W. Papers [includes muster rolls for 28th and 24th Alabama Regiments]

McGRADY, C.N. Papers, 1865-1956

McLAREN, JOHN F. Letters, 1862-1864 [chaplain in 39th Pennsylvania Regiment]

McLAURINE, GEORGE T. Diary and Account Book [Confederate soldier]

McMULLAN, SOPHIA Papers, 1861-1866

McQUIGG, JESSEE Correspondence, 1863-1865 [includes material on Battle for Atlanta and Confederate retreat through Georgia]

MIMS FAMILY Papers, 1832-1979 [Jefferson County, Alabama family]

MINOR, PHILIP Papers, 1858-1899 [Greene County, Alabama resident]

MURPHY, VIRGIL S. Autograph Album, 1865
Guide to Collection

NEVES FAMILY Papers, 1857-1878

OLIVER, WILLIAM G. Papers [34th Alabama Infantry]

PARSONS FAMILY Papers, 1864-1923 [W.A. Parsons served in the 12th Alabama Infantry and was killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in Virginia, 1864]

PARSONS, WILLIAM Papers, 1849-1936

PARSONS-TOOLE FAMILY Papers

POPE, HENRY C. Civil War Scrapbook [primarily contemporary newspaper accounts collected while Pope lived in Port Gibson, Mississippi]

PORTER, MITCHEL T. Muster Rolls, 1861-1862 [4th Brigade, Alabama Volunteers]

REDD, ELIZA POPE Scrapbook, 1927 [clippings from the periodical The War Record]

REED, R.S. Letters, 1862-1863 resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee]

ROBERTS, WILLIAM LEWIS Scrapbook, 1862-1920 [clippings relating to Nathan B. Forrest]

RUCKER, EDMUND WINCHESTER Papers, 1864-1924 [Rucker served with Nathan B. Forrest and was active in Confederate veteran organizations]

"SEAT OR WAR" Civil War Scrapbook, undated [newspaper clippings]

SMITH, J. MORGAN Correspondence, 1861-1864 [member of the Mobile Cadets and later the 32nd Alabama Regiment]

STERRET, R.H. Papers [served in the Tuscaloosa Cadets and Company C, 62nd Alabama Infantry]

WALPOLE, BENJAMIN M. Papers, 1864-1865 [South Carolina family]

WILMER, RICHARD HOOKER
Description of Collection

WILZIN, JACOB MAURICE Scrapbook [material relating to the 1908 Confederate Veterans Reunion held in Birmingham]

Spanish American War

BOYD, ROMAINE Muster Rolls, 1898 [Company M, First Alabama Infantry]

EMOND, BURGIN, HILL FAMILIES Papers
Description of Collection

GRAY, ALLEN Papers, 1927-1961 [includes correspondence relating to Spanish-American War veterans]

MILITARY HISTORY COLLECTION Miscellaneous Documents, 1866- [this collection also contains material on other wars]

WILLIAMS, BERTHA Spanish-American War Scrapbook, 1898

Pershing’s Punitive Expedition to Mexico

JORDAN, MORTIMER Papers, 1916-1918

REESE, ELDRIDGE W. First Alabama Artillery Scrapbook, 1915-1917 [also includes World War I material]

World War I

BELDEN, ALVIN ERNEST Diary

BOWRON, JACK Scrapbook

COOKE, JOSEPH R., JR. Papers [Cooke served in the U.S. Field Artillery in France and England]

JACOBS, LEROY R. AND FAMILY
Description of Collection

JEMISON, ROBERT, JR. Jefferson County Victory Loan Committee Papers, 1919 JORDAN, MORTIMER Papers, 1916-1918 [U.S. Army, 167th Infantry Regiment, 42nd (Rainbow) Division]

LONDON, EDITH WARD AND FAMILY Papers

ROGERS, LYDIA EUSTIS File on American Red Cross Work, Camp Sheridan, World War I

VAN DER VEER, JOHN STEWART Papers, 1909-1966
Guide to Collection

WHITING, ELBERT MARVIN Papers [Georgia native; includes material on his militry career]

World War II

BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY. TUTWILER COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN HISTORY AND LITERATURE World War II Scrapbooks, 1939-1945

BRANDINO, PAUL D. AND ELIZABETH K. Correspondence, 1943-1944 and undated
Guide to Collection

CHILDERS, JAMES SAXON Papers

FAIRVIEW SCHOOL Original Poems by Students, 1942 [poems relating to World War II]

HAMILTON, ELBERT Papers, 1942-1947 [U.S. Army paratrooper]

HAMILTON, FRANK Correspondence, 1938-1943 [correspondence of an uncle and nephew who served in the U.S. Army during World War II]

JOHNSTON FAMILY Papers

KOENIG, FREDERICK Gilman, Jr. Short Stories and Poetry
Description of Collection

MESHAD, FLOYD World War II Scrapbook

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Photographs of Benito Mussolini Execution, 1945

WALPOLE, JULIA United Service Organization (USO) Photographs [depict USO activities for servicemen in Birmingham]

WORLD WAR II SCRAPBOOK Newspaper Clippings, 1939-1940

Korean War

BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY. TUTWILER COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN HISTORY AND LITERATURE Korean War Scrapbooks, 1950-1953

KOREAN COMMUNIST WAR Scrapbook, 1950

Vietnam War

BASS, HELEN Papers, 1937-1942, 1967-1971

McPHILLIPS, DAVID C. Papers Relating to Conscientious Objector Status, 1970

VAN HOOSE, ALF Scrapbooks