Guide to the Macon Abernathy papers MSS.0003
Abernathy, Macon
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
November 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Macon Abernathy papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.0003
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (4 items)
- Dates:
1861-1878
- Abstract:
This collection consists of three pieces of Abernathy family correspondence discussing the outbreak of the Civil War and the return of Macon, a University of Alabama student, to his hometown of Jacksonville, Alabama, to enlist in a local company. Also contains an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles W. Abernathy.
- creator
Abernathy, Macon, 1842-1862
Scope and Contents note
Two letters from Macon at Tuscaloosa to his father and sister in Jacksonville, both dated 1861, discussing his denied requests for furloughs home, and a letter from his father, Miles, to his son in Tuscaloosa, encouraging him to return home to join a local company being raised to fight in the Civil War. The collection also includes an 1878 obituary of Macon's father, Major Miles Abernathy.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Macon Abernathy papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Fritz, 1962
- Access Restrictions:
Restrictions
None
Biographical/Historical note
Born August 7, 1842, in Jacksonville, Alabama, Macon Abernathy graduated from the University of Alabama in 1861. He served as a private in company G, 10th Alabama Regiment, Wilcox's Brigade, and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Frazier's Farm, Virginia, June 30, 1862. He died at Richmond, July 1, 1862.
Macon Abernathy Papers Box 1
Letter from Macon Abernathy, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Sister, February 24, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32068
Letter from Macon Abernathy, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Miles W. Abernathy, April 30, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32069
Letter from Miles W. Abernathy, Jacksonville, Alabama, to Macon Abernathy, May 22, 1861 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/32070