Guide to the Robert Saunders Papers, 1810-1990s
Record Group 011
Date processed: 02/26/2003
Processed By: T. Bernath
Repository Information
Archives of Wiregrass History & Culture
Troy State University Dothan
P.O. Box 8368
Dothan, AL 36304
Phone: 334-983-6556 x-327
E-mail: Archivist Dr. Martin T. Olliff <molliff@troy.edu>
Administrative Information
Accession Number: 011-02-010
Collection Size 0.25 cu ft
Biographical Sketch 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 Collection contains materials on the First and Second Seminole Wars. Organized into 2 series. 1. Photocopied pages from secondary sources. 2.Microfilm of letters from National Archives papers of Benjamin Hawkins, James Wilkinson and others involved in the First Seminole War. MF made by Dr. Frank L. Owsley, Jr., emeritus professor of history at Auburn University, who later gave the film to Saunders.
Access: Pending donor agreement (3-11-2003)
Preferred Citation: [Item], Robert Saunders Papers, RG011. Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture, Troy University--Dothan Campus, Dothan, AL.
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Series 1: Photocopied Secondary Sources
| File I.D. | File Label | |||
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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] |
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Series 2: Microfilmed Letters from NARA
| 011 | 02-010 | Reel | 001 |
(a) Odd on Hawkins Line 1810 (b) Gen. Thomas Pickney, contains letters from Hawkins-Floyd-Jackson. (War Dept. Sec. War, LR re Creek War 1811-15, NNWC-753, 53 ft.) |
| 011 | 02-010 | Reel | 002 |
Letters on the Creek War (NNWC-36, 30ft.) |
| 011 | 02-010 | 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, 52ft.) |