Guide to the Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers MSS.0313
Clayton, Henry De Lamar, Sr.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. Papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.0313
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
7.5 Linear feet
- Dates:
1840-1925
- Abstract:
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
- creator
Clayton, Henry De Lamar, 1827-1889
- creator
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Scope and Contents note
The papers of General Henry De Lamar Clayton document his life, actions, and influence. The material is arranged in eight series relating to the different aspects of General Clayton's life. The series are Family and Personal Data, Emory, Generalship, Judgeship, Miscellany, Politics, Stone Mountain Memorial, and the University of Alabama Presidency. Because of the volume of material, each series is sub-divided. Common sub-divisions include Correspondence--which constitutes the bulk of the collection--News Clippings; Legal and Financial Papers; Reports and Official Papers; and Speeches. Included in the series, Family and Personal Data is correspondence and papers of other family members as well as the personal, family correspondence and papers of General Clayton. General Clayton's papers reflect his professional and political activities as a lawyer and Alabama legislator, 1848-1861; service in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865; planter and circuit court judge, 1866-1868, 1886; political aspirant, 1886; and President of the University of Alabama, 1886-1889.
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- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr., papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Preston Clayton, 1953
Biographical/Historical note
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr. was born in Pulaski County, Georgia, on March 7, 1827, the son of Nelson and Sarah Clayton. He graduated from Emory and Henry College, Virginia, after which he read law under John G. and Eli S. Shorter in Eufaula, Alabama. In 1848 he was licensed as an attorney and began the practice of law in Clayton, Alabama. In 1857 he was chosen to represent Barbour County in the Alabama Legislature, and he served as a member of the House of Representatives until 1861.
Upon the threat of war Clayton urged Governor Moore to accept the volunteer regiment of trained companies of which he was colonel. Two of the companies were accepted in February 1861, and he enlisted in one of them as a private but was ordered to go at once to Pensacola, Florida, and take command of Alabama troops as they arrived. On March 28, 1861, the First Alabama Regiment was organized with Clayton as colonel. He remained at Pensacola, in command of a brigade for a year, and then organized as a new regiment, the Thirty-Ninth Alabama Volunteers, which he led as colonel in the Kentucky campaign and in the battle of Murfreesboro.
In the battle of Murfreesboro he was severely wounded, and immediately afterward was promoted to brigadier-general. The brigade to which he was assigned at Tullahoma, in April 1863, consisted of the Eighteenth, Thirty-Sixth, Thirty-Eight, Thirty-Second, and Fifty-Eight Regiments. Clayton's brigade bore a conspicuous part at Chickamauga, in the fighting around Dalton, Georgia, at New Hope Church, and in all the battles of the Atlanta and subsequent Tennessee campaigns and the final campaign in the Carolinas. General Clayton's conduct in the Atlanta campaign won for him the commission of major-general, July 7, 1864, and he became the successor of A.P. Stewart in division command, the brigades under his command being Gibson's, Stovall's, Baker's, and his own under Holtzclaw. He led this division during the battles around Atlanta, at Jonesboro, in the Nashville campaign, and up to the surrender in North Carolina.
At the close of the war General Clayton turned his attention to planting, until elected Judge of the Circuit Court in May 1866. He held this position until he was removed under the Reconstruction Acts of Congress in 1868. He then practiced law until he was reelected as Circuit Court Judge following the end of Reconstruction. He held that position for nearly twenty years until he resigned to accept the nomination for Governor. He was defeated but was elected President of the University of Alabama in the same year, 1886. He died on October 13, 1889, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Source(s)
Clayton, Henry De Lamar, Jr., 1857-1929 (local)
United States. Army. Alabama Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1862-1865). (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
Alabama (localbroad)
Bayonets (aat)
Billfolds (aat)
Cigar cases (aat)
Civil War (localbroad)
Clippings (information artifacts) (aat)
Confederate cemeteries (lcsh)
Cookbooks (aat)
Correspondence (aat)
Daily Life and Family (localbroad)
Emory and Henry College (lcsh)
Financial records (aat)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Invitations (aat)
Lawyers--Alabama (lcsh)
Lectures (aat)
Legal documents (aat)
Legislators--Alabama (lcsh)
Letter openers (aat)
Manuscripts for publication (aat)
Maps (aat)
Memoir and Biography (Local)
Military records (aat)
Muster rolls (aat)
Organizations (localbroad)
Photographs (aat)
Picture postcards (aat)
Political campaigns (lcsh)
Programs (documents) (aat)
Receipts (financial records) (aat)
Reports (aat)
School records (aat)
Scrapbooks (aat)
Speeches (aat)
Straight pins (aat)
United State--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Confederate (lcsh)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate (lcsh)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories (lcsh)
University of Alabama (localbroad)
University of Alabama--Presidents (lcsh)
War and Military (localbroad)
World War I (localbroad)
Family and Personal Data 3.0 Linear feet
Series Description
Series includes biographical information; newsclippings; a scrapbook overviewing the life of H.D. Clayton, Jr.; a photograph of Victoria, Mary, and Jefferson Davis Clayton in front of the President's Mansion on the University of Alabama campus; incoming and outgoing correspondence from and to H.D. Clayton, H.D. Clayton, Jr., Mary Clayton, Victoria Clayton, and a letter from Jefferson Davis to Jefferson Davis Clayton; bills, statements, and receipts dating from 1856 to 1916; other financial information dating from 1850 to 1912; and various official and unofficial papers and speeches from H.D. Clayton, Bertram Clayton, Lee J. Clayton, Joseph Clayton, and Mary Clayton.
Components in Detail
Biographical Information
Biographical Information 4 items Box 306 Folder 1
Biographical Information 10 items Box 306 Folder 2
Biographical Information 9 items Box 306 Folder 3
Scrapbook -- about H.D. Clayton Jr. 1 item Box 306 Object 4
Family Photograph 1 item Box 306 Folder 5
Correspondence -- H.D. Clayton, Sr.
Correspondence--Outgoing 23 items Box 306 Folder 6
Correspondence--Incoming 33 items Box 306 Folder 7
Correspondence--Incoming 35 items Box 306 Folder 8
Correspondence--Incoming 36 items Box 306 Folder 9
Correspondence -- Clayton Family and Others
H.D. Clayton, Jr., Correspondence--Incoming 13 items Box 306 Folder 10
H.D. Clayton, Jr., Correspondence--Outgoing 6 items Box 306 Folder 11
Mary Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (A-H) 20 items Box 306 Folder 12
Mary Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (J-McA) 13 items Box 306 Folder 13
Mary Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (Mi-Sp) 12 items Box 307 Folder 1
Mary Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (T-Z) 5 items Box 307 Folder 2
J.D. Clayton, Correspondence -- Incoming from Jefferson Davis 2 items Box 307 Folder 3
Mrs. H.D. Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (A-C) 18 items Box 307 Folder 4
Mrs. H.D. Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (C-J) 24 items Box 307 Folder 5
Mrs. H.D. Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (K-O) 14 items Box 307 Folder 6
Mrs. H.D. Clayton, Correspondence--Incoming (P-W) 9 items Box 307 Folder 7
Mrs. H.D. Clayton, Correspondence--Outgoing 13 items Box 307 Folder 8
Geneological, Correspondence -- Incoming and Outgoing 29 items Box 307 Folder 9
Other Correspondence--Incoming 12 items Box 307 Folder 10
Other Correspondence--Incoming 9 items Box 307 Folder 11
Miscellaneous Correspondence--Incoming (A-Mac) 19 items Box 307 Folder 12
Miscellaneous Correspondence--Incoming (Mc-Z) 17 items Box 307 Folder 13
Legal and Financial
bills, statements, and receipts/undated 18 items Box 307 Folder 14
bills, statements, and receipts 74 items Box 307 Folder 15
bills, statements, and receipts 84 items Box 308 Folder 1
bills, statements, and receipts 70 items Box 308 Folder 2
bills, statements, and receipts 46 items Box 308 Folder 3
Bank drafts and checks 22 items Box 308 Folder 4
Indebtedness and loans 3 items Box 308 Folder 5
Miscellaneous 2 item Box 308 Folder 6
Taxes 52 items Box 308 Folder 7
Bond 1 item Box 308 Folder 8
Financial 9 items Box 308 Folder 9
Accounts 2 items Box 308 Folder 10
Contracts, Agreements, and Miscellaneous Documents 10 items Box 308 Folder 11
Court Settlements 2 items Box 308 Folder 12
Wills -- Joe Clayton, H.D. Clayton Jr., Bertram T. Clayton Jr. 3 items Box 308 Folder 13
Land deeds, sales, payments and descriptions 16 items Box 308 Folder 14
Land deeds, sales, payments and descriptions 30 items Box 308 Folder 15
Transfer of Land/Deeds 18 items Box 309 Folder 1
Transfer of Property 10 items Box 309 Folder 2
Slaves 10 items Box 309 Folder 3
Wills and estates 4 items Box 309 Folder 4
Account Book -- H. D. Clayton and Lee Clayton 1 item Box 309 Folder 5
Account Book 1 item Box 310 Folder 1
Account Book 1 item Box 310 Folder 2
Newsclippings
Newsclippings (including the Clayton Name) 26 items Box 310 Folder 3
Newsclippings--education 11 items Box 310 Folder 4
Newsclippings--poetry 91 items Box 310 Folder 5
Newsclippings--Miscellaneous 72 items Box 310 Folder 6
Newsclippings--Victoria Clayton's "Black and White Under the Old Regime" 7 items Box 310 Folder 7
Clayton family
Other Papers -- Bertram and Lee J. Clayton 8 items Box 310 Folder 8
Other Papers -- Joseph Clayton 13 items Box 310 Folder 9
Other Papers -- Mary Clayton 26 items Box 311 Folder 1
Other Papers -- Miscellaneous 10 items Box 311 Folder 2
Manuscript: Black and White Under the Old Regime 3 items Box 322
Masons certificate 1 item Box 311 Folder 3
Speeches 2 items Box 311 Folder 4
Emory and Henry Colleges 0.5 Linear feet
Series Description
Contains documents relating to Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr.'s time spent at Emory University. These include an assignment book, lessons, assignments, the Constitution and By Laws of the Calleopean Society, a certificate from the Sons of Temperance, and a record of the Confederate dead in Emory cemetery.
Components in Detail
Certificate--Sons of Temperance 2 items Box 311 Folder 5
Constitution and By Laws of the Calleopean Society 1 item Box 311 Folder 6
Lessons and Assignments 4 items Box 311 Folder 7
Record of the Confederate Dead Emory Cemetery 1 item Box 311 Folder 8
Assignment Book 1 item Box 311 Folder 9
Generalship 1.0 Linear feet
Series Description
Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, muster rolls, financial data, diaries, news clippings, official orders, miscellaneous documents, and reports of battles and operations from his time spent as a general in the Confederate Army.
Correspondence ranges primarily from 1861 to 1877, though letters about General Clayton continue into 1947. Included within the series is a copy of "History of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry C.S.A" by Edward Young McMorries, Ph. D.
Components in Detail
Citations and Documents 3 items Box 312 Folder 1
Correspondence
Correspondence--About 11 items Box 312 Folder 2
Correspondence--Incoming (A-F) 18 items Box 312 Folder 3
Correspondence--Incoming (G-H) 19 items Box 312 Folder 4
Correspondence--Incoming (I-O) 22 items Box 312 Folder 5
Correspondence--Incoming (P-S) 17 items Box 312 Folder 6
Correspondence--Incoming (T-Z) 19 items Box 312 Folder 7
Correspondence--Incoming (multiple signatures) 4 items Box 312 Folder 8
Correspondence--Outgoing 17 items Box 312 Folder 9
Correspondence--Outgoing 16 items Box 312 Folder 10
Correspondence--Outgoing 18 items Box 312 Folder 11
Correspondence--Outgoing 17 items Box 312 Folder 12
Correspondence--Outgoing 6 items Box 312 Folder 13
Diaries and Notes 3 items Box 312 Folder 14
Financial Materials 35 items Box 312 Folder 15
Maps 2 items Box 312 Folder 16
Miscellaneous reports, notices, etc. 7 items Box 312 Folder 17
Regimental History 1 item Box 312 Folder 18
Muster Rolls
Muster Rolls and Casualties 7 items Box 313 Folder 1
Muster Rolls 10 items Box 313 Folder 2
News Clippings
News clippings 7 items Box 313 Folder 3
News clippings 15 items Box 313 Folder 4
Orders and Reports
Official Orders 7 items Box 313 Folder 5
Official Orders 9 items Box 313 Folder 6
Reports of Battles and Operations 2 items Box 313 Folder 7
Reports of Battles and Operations 10 items Box 313 Folder 8
Reports of Battles and Operations 18 items Box 313 Folder 9
Reports of Battles and Operations 13 items Box 313 Folder 10
Reports of Battles and Operations 3 items Box 313 Folder 11
Reports of Battles and Operations 3 items Box 313 Folder 12
Speeches
Speech 1 item Box 313 Folder 13
Speech 1 item Box 313 Folder 14
Legal Practice and Judgeship
Series Description
Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, legal and financial documents, speeches, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, several trial dockets, and other miscellaneous documents of importance from Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr.'s time practicing law.
Components in Detail
Correspondence
Correspondence -- About 2 items Box 314 Folder 1
Correspondence -- Incoming (A) 9 items Box 314 Folder 2
Correspondence -- Incoming (B) 17 items Box 314 Folder 3
Correspondence -- Incoming (C-F) 16 items Box 314 Folder 4
Correspondence -- Incoming (G-I) 12 items Box 314 Folder 5
Correspondence -- Incoming (J-M) 18 items Box 314 Folder 6
Correspondence -- Incoming (N-T) 25 items Box 314 Folder 7
Correspondence -- Incoming (U-Z) 15 items Box 314 Folder 8
Correspondence -- Incoming (multiple signatures) 2 items Box 314 Folder 9
Correspondence -- Outgoing 9 items Box 314 Folder 10
Legal and Financial
Legal Documents 3 items Box 314 Folder 11
Legal and Financial 14 items Box 314 Folder 12
Legal and Financial 15 items Box 314 Folder 13
Legal and Financial 12 items Box 314 Folder 14
Legal and Financial 10 items Box 314 Folder 15
Trial Docket 1 item Box 314 Folder 16
Trial Docket 1 item Box 315 Folder 1
Trial Docket -- Macon and Clayton 1 item Box 315 Folder 2
Account Book 1 item Box 315 Folder 3
Miscellany 9 items Box 315 Folder 4
News Clippings 18 items Box 315 Folder 5
Scrapbook -- Newspaper Clippings 1 item Box 315 Folder 6
Speeches
Speeches (Charges to the Grand Jury) 2 items Box 315 Folder 7
Speeches 2 items Box 315 Folder 8
Speeches 3 items Box 315 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Speeches or Lectures 6 items Box 316 Folder 1
Education and History 7 items Box 316 Folder 2
Memoranda 1.2 Linear feet 1 item Box 316 Folder 3
Politics 1.0 Linear feet
Series Description
Contains incoming correspondence, news clippings, notebooks, campaign reviews and speeches regarding the politics in which Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr. was involved.
Components in Detail
Correspondence
Correspondence -- About 11 items Box 316 Folder 4
Correspondence -- Incoming (A-Burke) 21 items Box 316 Folder 5
Correspondence -- Incoming (Clayton) 12 items Box 316 Folder 6
Correspondence -- Incoming (Casolow - Francis) 30 items Box 316 Folder 7
Correspondence -- Incoming (G-I) 32 items Box 316 Folder 8
Correspondence -- Incoming (J- McMorris) 28 items Box 316 Folder 9
Correspondence -- Incoming (McRae - O) 25 items Box 316 Folder 10
Correspondence -- Incoming (P - Smith) 32 items Box 316 Folder 11
Correspondence -- Incoming (Smith - Walker) 26 items Box 317 Folder 1
Correspondence -- Incoming (Walthour - Wynn) 25 items Box 317 Folder 2
News Clippings 13 items Box 317 Folder 3
News Clippings 29 items Box 317 Folder 4
News Clippings Box 317 Folder 5
Reviews of Campaigns 2 items Box 317 Folder 6
Speech concerning agriculture in Alabama 1 item Box 317 Folder 7
Speech concerning agriculture and success 1 item Box 317 Folder 8
Speech concerning politics and voting 1 item Box 317 Folder 9
Speech concerning religion and life 1 item Box 317 Folder 10
Printed Proclamation 8 items Box 317 Folder 11
Notebooks
Notebooks 2 items Box 317 Folder 12
Notebook 1 item Box 317 Folder 13
Stone Mountain Memorial 0.3 Linear feet
Series Description
Contains correspondence, circulars and news clippings regarding the Stone Mountain Memorial bas-relief in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Components in Detail
Circulars 8 items Box 318 Folder 1
Correspondence 15 items Box 318 Folder 2
Correspondence 9 items Box 318 Folder 3
News Clippings 8 items Box 318 Folder 4
University of Alabama Presidency 0.8 Linear feet
Series Description
Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, lectures, speeches, reports, prayers, a scrapbook, and miscellaneous data from Henry De Lamar Clayton, Sr.'s duration as President of the University of Alabama.
Components in Detail
Correspondence -- Incoming 18 items Box 318 Folder 5
Correspondence -- Outgoing 4 items Box 318 Folder 6
Law School Lectures and Exams; Reports 4 items Box 318 Folder 7
Miscellaneous 7 items Box 318 Folder 8
News Clippings 2 items Box 318 Folder 9
Prayers 4 items Box 318 Folder 10
Reports 9 items Box 318 Folder 11
Reports 1 item Box 318 Folder 12
Speeches
Speeches -- Commencement 2 items Box 318 Folder 13
Speeches -- Commencement 2 items Box 318 Folder 14
Speeches -- Commencement 2 items Box 318 Folder 15
Speeches -- Commencement 1 item Box 318 Folder 16
Speeches -- Miscellaneous 1 item Box 318 Folder 17
Speeches -- Miscellaneous 1 item Box 318 Folder 18
Speeches -- Miscellaneous 2 items Box 318 Folder 19
Speeches -- Miscellaneous 3 items Box 318 Folder 20
Scrapbook 1 item Box 319 Folder 1
Scrapbook -- Loose Material 10 items Box 319 Folder 2
Miscellaneous 1.0 Linear feet
Series Description
The Miscellaneous series includes two writing tablets; a bull pedigree; a Jersey Cattle Sale flyer; a U.S. Claims form; two printed poems; a very large number of used but empty envelopes; picture post cards (with and without Mary Clayton's correspondence); greeting cards; prayers; invitations; programs; a passenger list; a cookbook; a planter's memo; a guide to travelers through Amory, Mississippi; a luggage tag; a "Facts on Spineless Cactus" booklet; a mail receipt; memorial cards for H.D. Clayton, Sr. and Mrs. Sophia F. Miller; clippings found in H.D. Clayton, Sr.'s pocket; and a lock of hair.
Components in Detail
Miscellaneous Documents 8 items Box 320 Folder 1
Envelopes 8 items Box 320 Folder 2
Envelopes 80 items Box 320 Folder 3
Envelopes 80 items Box 320 Folder 4
Envelopes 80 items Box 320 Folder 5
Envelopes 85 items Box 320 Folder 6
Envelopes 80 items Box 320 Folder 7
Picture Postcards 17 items Box 320 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Documents 33 items Box 320 Folder 9
Miscellaneous Documents 4 items Box 320 Folder 10
Artifacts 0.1 Linear feet
Series Description
The Artifacts series includes a red leather billfold, a letter opener, a cigar holder, a straight pin, and a World War I bayonet (possibly Austrian).
Components in Detail
Leather Billfold 1 item Box 320 Folder 11
Letter Opener, Cigar Holder, Straight Pin 3 items Box 320 Folder 12
Bayonet 1 item Box 320