Guide to the Robert Saunders Papers, 1810-1990s

Record Group 011

Date Span 1810-1990s

Extent 1.35 cf

Historical Note: Robert Saunders earned his PhD in American History from Auburn University. He subsequently taught history at Auburn University Montgomery and Troy State University Dothan. Much of his research concerns Early National military and Alabama history.

Scope/Content: Contains materials on the First and Second Seminole Wars photocopied by Saunders from secondary sources and microfilm of letters from National Archives papers of Benjamin Hawkins, James Wilkinson and others involved in the First Seminole War. Also contains research materials consisting of photocopies of primary and secondary sources for Dr. Saunders' dissertation and subsequent book, John Archibald Campbell, Southern Moderate, 1811-1889 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997).

Organization: Collection organized into 2 series:

Series 1 - First and Second Creek Wars - Subseries 1.1: Secondary sources; Subseries 1.2: Primary Sources

Series 2 - Campbell book - Subseries 2.1: Publishing correspondence and personal notes; Subseries 2.2: Secondary sources; Subseries 2.3: Primary sources

Provenance: MF made by Dr. Frank L. Owsley, Jr., emeritus professor of history at Auburn University, and who gave same to Saunders.

Preferred Citation: Robert Saunders Papers, RG011. The Wiregrass Archives, Troy University--Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL.

Date processed: 02/26/2003

Processed By: T. Bernath

File I.D.				File Label
011	02-010	001	001	Griffith, Lucille. Alabama: A Documentary History to 1900. University, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1972. [Various Pages]
011	02-010	001	002	Brewer, W[illis]. Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, From 1540-1872. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1975. [Pages 52-53]
011	02-010	001	003	Alabama Historical Quarterly [Pages 156-158]
011	02-010	001	004	Posey, Walter Brownlow, ed. Alabama in the 1830s as Recorded by British Travelers. Birmingham, AL: Southern University Press, 1938. [Pages 4-37]
011	02-010	001	005	The Creek War of 1836, a Military History [Pages 463-485]
011	02-010	001	006	Excerpts From Issues of the Pensacola Gazette Covering Walton County Indian War of 1837 [Various Pages]
011	02-010	001	007	Southerland, Henry deLeon, Jr., and Jerry Elijah Brown. The Federal Road Through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1989. [Pages 70-71, 122-143, 164-189]
011	02-010	001	008	Stanley, J. Randall. History of Gadsden County. Quincy, FL: Gadsden County Historical Commission, 1948. [Pages 42-45]
011	02-010	001	009	History of Henry County [Various Pages]
011	02-010	001	010	Golden, Virginia Noble. A History of Tallassee for Tallasseeans. Tallassee, AL: Tallassee Mills of Mount Vernon--Woodberry Mills, 1949. [Pages 1-10]
011	02-010	001	011	Mahon, John K. History of the Second Seminole War. Gainesville, FL: The University of Florida Press, 1985. [Pages 190-193]
011	02-010	001	012	Carswell, E. W. Holmesteading: The History of Holmes County, Florida. Chipley, FL: E. W. Carswell, 1986. [Pages 31-36]
011	02-010	001	013	Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal: The Immigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953. [Pages 107-190]
011	02-010	001	014	White, Christine Schultz. "Opothleyahola, Factionalism, and Creek Politics." PhD. dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1986. [Various Pages]
011	02-010	001	015	Young, Mary Elizabeth. Redskins, Ruffleshirts, and Rednecks: Indian Allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961. [Pages 72-113, 190-207]
011	02-010	001	016	Debo, Angie. The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941. [Pages 72-107]
011	02-010	001	017	Walker, Anne Kendrick. Russell County in Retrospect: An Epic of the Far Southeast. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1950. [Various Pages]
011	02-010	001	018	Fretwell, Mark E. This So Remote Frontier: The Chattahoochee Country of Alabama and Georgia. Eufaula, AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 1980. [Pages 230-249]
011	02-010	001	019	Troy State University Libraries – WebCat- Item Report [Pages 1-12]
011	02-010	001	020	Benton, Jeffrey C. The Very Worst Road: Travelers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Territory, 1820-1847. Eufaula, AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission, 1998. [Pages 85-133]

Series 1: First and Second Creek Wars. Subseries 1.2: Primary Sources

File I.D.				File Label
011	02-010	MF Reel	001	(a) Odd on Hawkins Line 1810, (b) Gen. Thomas Pinckney, contains letters from Hawkins-Floyd-Jackson. (War Dept. Sec. War, LR re Creek War 1811-15, NNWC-753, 53 ft.)
011	02-010	MF Reel	002	Letters on the Creek War (a) Silas Pinsmoor, (b) Return J. Meigs, (c) J. Nelly, (d) Jas Robertson, (e) Ben Hawkins. (NNWC-36, 30ft.)
011	02-010	MF Reel	003	a) Selected Letters of General James Wilkinson, 1912, (b) Selected Letters of General Thomas Flournoy 1813-14, (c) Selected Letters of Edmund P. Gaines, (d) Selected Letters of Gov. W.C.C. Claiborne, (e) Benjamin Hawkins after 1815. (NNWE-5, 52 ft.)
011	07-0402	001	057	Creek War of 1836 - research material
011	07-0402	001	058	Luis - research materials
011	07-0402	001	059	Luis - research materials

Series 2: Campbell Materials. Subseries 2.1: Author and Publisher notes and correspondence

File I.D.				File Label
011	07-0402	001	001	Saunders - Campbell book - Correspondence - 1993-1995
011	07-0402	001	002	Saunders - Campbell book - Outline, n.d.
011	07-0402	001	003	Saunders - Campbell book - Personal Notes, n.d.
011	07-0402	001	004	Saunders - Miscellaneous [1995]
011	07-0402	001	005	Saunders - Research - Bibliographic
011	07-0402	001	006	Saunders - Research - Interlibrary Loan
011	07-0402	001	007	Saunders - Research - National Archives

Series 2: Campbell Materials. Subseries 2.3: Primary Sources

File I.D.				File Label
011	07-0402	001	008	John Bragg Papers
011	07-0402	001	009	Campbell Family Papers, 1860 - Sept 1865 [most transcribed]
011	07-0402	001	010	Campbell Family Papers, Oct 1865 - 1869 [most transcribed]
011	07-0402	001	011	Campbell Family Papers, 1870's [most transcribed]
011	07-0402	001	012	Campbell Family Papers, 1880's [most transcribed]
011	07-0402	001	013	Collier Papers - 1850
011	07-0402	001	014	Confederate States War Department - Various Documents, 1861-1865
011	07-0402	001	015	Benjamin Fitzpatrick Papers - 1841, 1842
011	07-0402	001	016	House Journal
011	07-0402	001	017	Journal of Proceedings of the Southern Convention - 1850
011	07-0402	001	018	Manuscripts written by John A. Campbell - 1880, 1884, 1887
011	07-0402	001	019	Miscellaneous
011	07-0402	001	020	Newspaper items [1865]
011	07-0402	001	021	Phillips-Meyers Papers - 1870, 1884 [transcribed]
011	07-0402	001	022	Photos of John A. Campbell [from microform]
011	07-0402	001	023	Supreme Court of the United States
011	07-0402	MD1	OS1	Robert Hardy Smith Papers SHC Record of Slave Purchase (1858) Tax Books (Campbell entry) 1841, 1843, 1845, 1846, 1848-54. 1857-59, 1861-63

Series 2: Campbell Materials. Subseries 2.2: Secondary Sources

File I.D.				File Label
011	07-0402	001	024	ACTS - State of Alabama
011	07-0402	001	025	Address of Citizens of Louisiana to the People of the United States - Appendix IV - n.d.
011	07-0402	001	026	Alabama Historical Quarterly - 1961, 1974
011	07-0402	001	027	The Alabama Lawyer - n.d.
011	07-0402	001	028	The Alabama Review - [individual articles] - 1951, 1953, 1958-60, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974, 1975
011	07-0402	001	029	American Historical Association, n.d.
011	07-0402	001	030	American Historical Review - v.17 no. 5
011	07-0402	001	031	Century Illustrated Magazine - n.d.
011	07-0402	001	032	City Directory & History of Montgomery Alabama - n.d.
011	07-0402	001	033	Confederate Veteran - June 1904, March 1917, July 1922
011	07-0402	001	034	"Electoral Count of 1877" - n.d.
011	07-0402	001	035	Hampton Roads Conference
011	07-0402	001	036	"In the Matter of the Liability of Officers who were compelled to Surrender Moneys of the United States to the Officers of the Seceding States, After Passage of the Acts of Secession in 1861"
011	07-0402	001	037	"John Archibald Campbell: Associate Justice of the United Supreme Court, 1853-1861" - Henry G. Conner - 1920
011	07-0402	001	038	Journal of Southern History - 1938, n.d., 1941, 1960, [1967]
011	07-0402	001	039	Journals of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States or America - Dec. 6 1852 to March 3, 1855 - v.9
011	07-0402	001	040	"Landmark Briefs & Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law" Kurland/Casper, editors - v.6 & v.7
011	07-0402	001	041	"Lawyers and the Constitution: How Laissez Faire came to the Supreme Court: - Benjamin R. Twiss - 1962
011	07-0402	001	042	Magazine of American History - 1899
011	07-0402	001	043	Materials authored by John Archibald Campbell, 1850-1870
011	07-0402	001	044	Memorial Record of Alabama, v.1 - 1976
011	07-0402	001	045	Miscellaneous
011	07-0402	001	046	Mississippi Valley Historical Review - n.d. & 1928
011	07-0402	001	047	Mobile Register - 1981 & 1995
011	07-0402	001	048	"Papers of Andrew Johnson" - P.H. Bergeron, editor - 1991
011	07-0402	001	049	"The Political and Constitutional Thought of John Archibald Campbell" - J.S. Mann - 1966 - Dissertation - Beginning to Chap 6
011	07-0402	001	050	"The Political and Constitutional Thought of John Archibald Campbell" - J.S. Mann - 1966 - Dissertation - Chapter 6 to End
011	07-0402	001	051	Slavery in the United States [1847]
011	07-0402	001	052	Southern Historical Society Papers - n.d., 1896, n.d., 1909, 1907
011	07-0402	001	053	Southern Quarterly Review [1851]
011	07-0402	001	054	Vanderbilt Law Review [1958]
011	07-0402	001	055	Virginia Historical Magazine [n.d]
011	07-0402	001	056	"War of the Rebellion" Official Records of the Union & Confederate Armies - c.1971, 1985 reprint

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