GUide to the James Hall collection MSS.1644
Hall, James
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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James Hall collection
- Unit ID:
MSS.1644
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (4 items)
- Dates:
1863
- Abstract:
Contains a letter to James Hall from his brother, Jeremiah, a Union soldier, dated October 1863, as well as a framed photograph of a soldier notated "James Hall" on the obverse and a pair of eye glasses with their case.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a letter to James Hall from his brother Jeremiah Hall, a Union soldier, dated 20 October 1863, from Collierville Tennessee. There is also a small framed photograph of a soldier notated "James Hall" on the obverse, as well as a pair of eye glasses with their case.
The letter refers to one of the skirmishes that took place as Sherman's troops were moving east toward Chattanooga in late 1863. Jeremiah's unit was evidently one of those guarding the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, a target of frequent Confederate raids. Collierville was the site of four minor battles during late 1863; the one described was probably that caused by Confederate Brigadier General James Chalmer's raid of mid-October 1863.
The eye glasses and case are in the Artifacts Database (Number 0493) and shelved in the Artifacts Cage in box 6691 on shelf S01-005.
The photograph is in the photograph collection.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
James Hall Collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Union soldier serving in support of W.T. Sherman's Army in western Tennessee, 1863.
Letter Box 6476 Folder 1
Letter from Jeremiah Hall to brother, James Hall, October 20, 1863 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20750
Eye glasses and case Box 6691
Photograph, framed