Guide to the William Pitt Ballinger diary MSS.0104
Ballinger, William Pitt
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
May 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
William Pitt Ballinger diary
- Unit ID:
MSS.0104
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.2 Linear feet (photocopies of typescript)
- Dates:
1864-1868
- Abstract:
This collection consists of a diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, legal cases, travels on legal business, and personal and family affairs.
- creator
Ballinger, William Pitt, 1825-1888
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a diary covering the 1865 negotiations with General E. R.S. Canby and others over the cessation of hostilities between the U.S. and the state of Texas, legal cases, travels on legal business, and personal and family affairs.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
William Pitt Ballinger diary, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Kenneth J. Mullenix, Jr., 1976?
Biographical/Historical note
Attorney of Houston, Texas. One of two Texas commissioners sent to negotiate a cessation of hostilities between U.S. troops and the state of Texas in May 1865.
- Processing Information:
Processing Information note
Unknown; update by Andrew Harris 2012
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
Source(s)
Canby, Edward Richard Sprigg (E.R.S.) , 1817-1873 (local)
Correspondence (aat)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Diaries (aat)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Lawyers (aat)
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
Travel and Tourism (localbroad)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives (lcsh)
War and Military (localbroad)
WIlliam Pitt Ballinger Box 2355