Item: Raphael Semmes, Montgomery, to Unknown, April 15, 1861. Item: John F. McIntosh, Sunny Side, to Raphael Semmes, December 20, 1874. Item: J. M. Shackelford, Brigadier General, to Major General Burnside, Commander, Army of the Ohio, November 18, 1863. Item: W. A. Gorman, Brigadier General, Head Quarters, Gorman’s Brigade, Harpers Ferry, VA, to Francis M. Rotch, Assistant Adjutant General State of New York, September 26, 1862. Item: O. O. Howard, Headquarters Eleventh Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to General Meigs, October 24, 1863. Item: Gideon Welles, Navy Department, to William Mervine, U.S. Navy, Utica, NY, May 6, 1861. Item: John A. Winslow, Captain, USS Kearsarge, At Sea, to Edward E. Preble, Midshipman, July 6, 1864. Item: Alexander Stephens, Crawfordville, GA, to John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Washington, DC, April 24, 1857. Item: Alexander Stephens, Crawfordville, GA, to Miss Addie A. Hans, June 10, 1859. Item: T. J. Jackson, Head Quarters, Valley District, Winchester, VA, to Major Rhett, November 11, 1861. Item: T. J. Jackson, Caroline County, VA, to Col. A. R. Boteler, January 21, 1863. Item: T. J. Jackson, Major General, Head Quarters, Valley District, Staunton, to Hon. G. W. Randolph, Secretary of War, May 6, 1862. Item: W. J. Hardee, Major General, to Colonel George Garner, AAG, Pikeville, August 31, 1862. Item: Jefferson Davis, Montgomery, AL, to Hon. George W. Hughes, April 8, 1861. Item: Jefferson Davis, Beauvoir, MS, to Colonel C. Snead, July 25, 1887. Item: Jefferson Davis, War Department, Washington, to Asbury Dickins, Esq., Secretary of the Senate, November 6, 1853. Item: Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, War Department, Washington, to Hon. John Bell, Commander of Naval Affairs, Senate, August 4, 1856. Item: W. T. Sherman, Major General, U.S. Army, Lancaster, OH, to General G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans, August 1, 1865. Item: James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, VA, to Hon. John H. Reagan, June 15, 1863. Item: Samuel Cooper, Richmond, to Mark Alexander, Jr., July 24, 1864. Item: Virginia electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens, November 6, 1861. Item: Appointment Certificate: R.R. Harris, Assistant Quartermaster, Fifth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment; signed by James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, April 11, 1863. Item: W. H. C. Whiting, Head Quarters, Troops near Dumfries, to G. W. Smith, October 24, 1861. Item: Joe Wheeler, General, Head Quarters, Armies Confederate States, to General Braxton Bragg, [n.d.]. Item: Andrew Jackson, Major General, Nashville, to the Honorable J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Headquarters, November 30, 1818. Item: L. P. Walker, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, War Department, Richmond, to Dr. William S. Morris, President, Southern Telegraph Co., Richmond, September 2, 1861. Item: R. E. Lee, Camp in Sewell Mountain, to General John B. Floyd, September 27, 1861. Item: R. E. Lee, Headquarters, Huntersville, to General S. Cooper, Adjutant & Inspector General, CSA, Richmond, VA, August 3, 1861. 11 Item: R. E. Lee, Headquarters, Valley Mountain, VA, to Colonel A. Beckley, Virginia Volunteers, Camp Shady Spring, August 24, 1861. Item: R. E. Lee, Headquarters, Richmond, to General J. E. Johnston, Commander, Army of Northern Virginia, May 19, 1861. Item: R. E. Lee, Headquarters, 2nd Army, VA, to Maj. Gen. G. W. Smith, December 6, 1862. Item: R. E. Lee, Headquarters, to Col. A. Beckley, VA Volunteers, Camp Shady Springs, August 24, 1861.
Scope and Contents
The Archival Materials section is comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials pertaining to variety of subjects. Each subject is represented in its own Series, and includes (I) U.S. Civil War; (II) Alabama; (III) American Revolution and Early Colonial America; (IV) U.S. politics; (V) Arizona Territory; (VI) Technology and Transportation; and (VII) Miscellaneous. The bulk of the collection focuses on the Civil War and 19th century Alabama. Items in the collection of particular note include correspondence related to Alabama’s territorial period; the correspondence of Edward Crenshaw, a Confederate Marine Corps officer and native of Butler County, Alabama; correspondence and loyalty oath from Raphael Semmes, captain of the C.S.S. Alabama and Admiral in the Confederate States Navy; and materials related to the Confederate States of America’s Postal Service.
The Philatelic Materials portion of the collection includes U.S. postal stamps from the 19th and 20th centuries, and includes many first-day issue and commemorative stamps and postal covers. These covers feature a broad array of stamps from the Classic, Bureau, and Modern periods of U.S. Postal Service history. Other materials found in this collection include stamps and covers from early U.S Air Mail and Zeppelin transport; Wells Fargo; postcards from the late 19th and early 20th centuries; stamps and covers commemorating space exploration and scientific achievements; advertising covers; and stampless folded letters from the 19th century. Many of these items, particularly the 19th century covers, contain correspondence from various regions of the United States. Of particular note are postal materials and correspondence pertaining to Alabama in the 19th century; first-day issues of U.S. stamps and covers from the 1930s to the 1980s; assorted postcards with images from the American West, U.S. and European landscapes and cityscapes; and images of early airplanes and dirigibles.
This Philatelic portion of the collection also includes a number of philatelic and historical journals and auction catalogs. Journals include The Confederate Philatelist (1975-2014) and Ashbrook Newsletters (1951-1957). Among the philatelic and memorabilia auction catalogs are a collection of Christie’s Auction Catalog (1984-1996), and catalogs from various other U.S. auction galleries.
The Oversized Materials portion features a number of maps, newspapers, paintings, posters, prints, and printed material covering a variety of subjects in United States history. Topics include the U.S. Civil War, Colonial America, wildlife, U.S. politics, and the American West. Of particular note is The Army and Navy of the United States, 1776-1891 series; a complete set of photographs from the Photographic History of the Civil War; an 1863 bound collection of Harpers Weekly; and a rare collection of photographs and daguerreotypes of Union Naval Vessels.
Note: Numerous photocopies of items appear throughout the collection. These are items (mainly correspondence) that Mr. Vick owned at one time, but has since sold. Many of these items still have important research value, and Mr. Vick grants researchers permission to use them in this manner.
Dates
- (1764-2014)
Conditions Governing Access
This accession is open to researchers
Extent
From the Accession: 19 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
