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.

Inventory 

Series 1:  Photocopied Secondary Sources

File I.D. File Label

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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]

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02-010

001

019

Troy State University Libraries – WebCat- Item Report [Pages 1-12]

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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 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
(a) Silas Pinsmoor,
(b) Return J. Meigs,
(c) J. Nelly,
(d) Jas Robertson,
(e) Ben Hawkins. 

(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.)