Guide to the W.H. Wait Pass MSS.1664
Wait, W. H.
- 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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- Language Usage:
English
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W. H. Wait Pass
- Unit ID:
MSS.1664
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (1 letter)
- Dates:
1865 April 29
- Abstract:
A pass from W.H. Wait, sergeant in charge of the Picket Post at the "Cutoff new Algiers, La." on 29 April 1865 allowing Private Silas Dickens to travel from Algiers, Louisiana, to New Orleans and back.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of a pass by Wait, countersigned and approved by Lt. Colonel H. E. Jones, permitting Private Silas Dickens of the 56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry to pass from Algiers, Louisiana "to and through the city of New Orleans."
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
W. H. Wait letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Union Sergeant, 56th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Algiers, Louisiana
Source(s)
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 56th (1861-1866).
Louisiana |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
Military records (aat)
United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
Pass Box 6476 Folder 21
Military pass from the Sergeant in charge of the picket post , W. H. Wait, Algiers, Louisiana, to Private Silas Dickens, April 29, 1865 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/22199