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  • http://dkdayton.net/roberts/images/r01b/pdfs/r01b04-05.pdf
  • http://dkdayton.net/roberts/images/r01b/pdfs/r01b02-04.pdf
  • r01a01-02.pdf
  • loc_jonh_011441_011444.pdf

    "Kalona," built in 1850, and rebuilt in 1904 by Edgar L. Love, architect. Restored in 1997. Located about 3 miles southeast of Courtland, Alabama.
  • loc_jonh_011387_011440.pdf

    Draper Residence, built c. 1830 in Federal and Victorian style. Records indicate the presence of a outbuilding, servants house, shed, barn, and well at one point. Colonial Revival Tabernacle style frame built around the front door and a Victorian veranda added c. 1920. Located on Clinton Ave., Courtland, Alabama.
  • loc_jonh_005127_005720.pdf

    Joe Wheeler Plantation, also known as the Sherrod-Wheeler House, Cotton Garden, and Pond Spring. A group of thirteen buildings built in the range of c. 1818 to c. 1880: Early 1800s log center-hall barn. Early 20th century frame barn. 19th century log ice house. Servants' house. Pole barn built 20th century. Comissary built c. 1900. Log house built c. 1818. Log dogtrot house built c. 1820. Schoolhouse. The c. 1830 Sherrod House. General Joe Wheeler's post-Civil War period house built c. 1884. Family cemetery. Located in Lawrence County, Alabama. Joseph Wheeler was a Confederate Army General and seved in the Spanish-American War.
  • loc_jonh_003028_003115.pdf

    Saunders Hall, also known as the Goode-Hall House, built c. 1830s by Turner Saunders. Jeffersonian Classic style with Palladian influence. Located north of Town Creek in Lawrence County, Alabama.
  • loc_jonh_001004_001005R.pdf

    Courtland, two houses built in the Federal Period. Federal style with 20th Century and Victorian style additions. Porch addition c. 1920s. Located in Courtland, Alabama.
  • loc_harr_001_185_transcript.pdf

    Harris served as a private in Company F of the 149th Indiana Infantry Regiment, which occupied Decatur, Alabama in 1865. He enrolled at Terre Haute, Indiana, on February 15, 1865 at the age of twenty. Harris records his experiences as a soldier and traces his journey south to Decatur. Harris was discharged on September 27, 1865. The transcription includes a key to the cipher that Harris sometimes used, as well as notes and clarifications in brackets and parentheses. Also included are the complete lyrics to the Union song "Reply to the Bonnie Blue Flag," part of which Harris records in an entry here.
  • loc_harr_001_185.pdf

    Harris served as a private in Company F of the 149th Indiana Infantry Regiment, which occupied Decatur, Alabama in 1865. He enrolled at Terre Haute, Indiana, on February 15, 1865 at the age of twenty. Harris records his experiences as a soldier and traces his journey south to Decatur. Harris also describes his interactions with locals in North Alabama, writing in April 1865 that he "halted to talk with a family of Rebbs questioning concerning their so-called independence but found out nothing of importance Except that ther hopes had fled." He also includes descriptions of skirmishes in which he took part, as well as lengthy descriptions of the terrain and weather. Harris adds his comments on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and writes down song lyrics and poetry at points. Harris was discharged on September 27, 1865.
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