Guide to the Pencil Sketches of Civil War Military Camps and Buildings MSS.3434
Pencil Sketches of Civil War Military Camps and Buildings
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
July 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
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Pencil Sketches of Civil War Military Camps and Buildings
- Unit ID:
MSS.3434
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
1.5 Linear feet (6 pencil sketches)
- Dates:
between 1861 and 1865
- Abstract:
Six pencil sketches of various military buildings and camps of the Civil War.
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Pencil Sketches of Civil War Military Camps and Buildings, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2011
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains six pencil sketches depicting various military buildings and camps during the Civil War. One of the sketches, titled "U.S. Gen Hospital, Point of Rocks, VA," implies that the sketches, which are all done by the same hand, depict Union encampments. Another is titled "The House where Maj. Charles Jarvis Died." Jarvis was a Major in Company "D" of the Vermont 9th Infantry and was wounded and died while on a scouting mission in New Berne, North Carolina, on 1 December 1863.
Sketches Box 3434.001