Guide to the Morgan Smith Gilmer papers MSS.0571
Gilmer, Morgan Smith
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
January 2009
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Morgan Smith Gilmer papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.0571
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1954
- Abstract:
Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.
- creator
Gilmer, Morgan Smith
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains correspondence and two typescript copies of a booklet written by Gilmer, titled "Shockley's Independent Escort Company," which enumerates surviving and deceased members of Shockley's Alabama Escort Company, and provides a brief history of the company. The booklet was originally published in 1905; the typescript copies were produced in 1954.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Baldwin Westcott, 1954
Biographical/Historical note
Morgan S. Gilmer was born in 1846. He was part of Shockley's Escort during the Civil War and was wounded in Lafayette, Georgia, on 24 June 1864. He rejoined his unit on 1 November 1864 and served until the end of the war. He returned to Montgomery, Alabama, and married Helen Barton in 1885. He died in 1916.
Gilmer's register of Shockley's Independent Escort Company was published by Woodruff Company, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1905. The unit itself was formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864 during the Civil War.
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C. Doughty, 2009; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
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Preferred Citation note
Morgan Smith Gilmer papers, University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
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Source(s)
Confederate States of America. Army. Shockley's Alabama Escort Company. (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
University of Alabama Corps of Cadets. (local)
Alabama (localbroad)
Booklets (aat)
Civil War (localbroad)
Correspondence (aat)
Rosters (aat)
Soldiers' monuments (lcsh)
Students (localbroad)
University of Alabama (localbroad)
War and Military (localbroad)
Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry by Morgan S. Gilmer [typescript & photocopy of the original] 0.1 Linear feet Box 640 Folder 8
Scope and Contents note
Contains two typescript copies and one photocopy of Morgan S. Gilmer's booklet, Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry, written in 1905.
Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama cavalry by Morgan S. Gilmer http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20446
Correspondence, Incoming 0.1 Linear feet Box 640 Folder 9
Scope and Contents note
The correspondence contains letters primarily to Gilmer from Thomas M. Owen of the Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, and Eugene Smith, State Geologist, discussing plans by the Montgomery County Chapter of the Yallerhammers to erect a memorial tablet to Captain Shockley’s Company. Shockley was a student of the University of Alabama as were several of his Independent Escort Company.
The correspondence centers around the form the Yallerhammers memorial was to take as the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was also planning to erect a memorial boulder commemorating the services of the sons of the University to the Confederacy. The University administration wanted to make sure that similar types of monuments were not planned.