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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897. The collection includes his correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including many national politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904, Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a "History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.," written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and general articles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917 covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, and his political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scattered papers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C. |
Creator | Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Finding aid updated in June 2010 by Kathryn Michaelis for digitization.
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Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897.
Back to TopThe collection includes Herbert's correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including many national politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904, Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a "History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.," written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and general articles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917 covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, and his political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scattered papers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence includes exchanges with prominent politicians, including Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Carmody, and Richard Olney, discussing contemporary political issues, campaigns, and diplomatic affairs. Also included are miscellaneous pamphlets, speeches, and some scattered papers of Herbert's daughter, Ella Herbert Micou.
Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1892-1894 |
Folder 2 |
1895 |
Folder 3 |
1896-1898 |
Folder 4 |
1900-1903 |
Folder 5 |
1904 |
Folder 6 |
1905-1908 |
Folder 7 |
1909-1911 |
Folder 8 |
1912 |
Folder 9 |
1913-1914 |
Folder 10 |
1915-1916 |
Folder 11 |
1917 |
Folder 12 |
1918-1919 |
Folder 13 |
1920-1931 |
Folder 14 |
Undated papers |
Folder 15-18
Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18 |
Undated speeches and articles |
Folder 19 |
Newspaper clippings |
Folder 20-22
Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22 |
Pamphlets |
Reel M-2481/1-2
M-2481/1M-2481/2 |
Microfilm |
Arrangement: by content.
Folder 23 |
Volume 1: Grandfather's Talks About His Life Under Two Flags, 1903Reminiscences of Hilary A. Herbert. Bound typescript. |
Folder 24 |
Volume 2: Short History of the 8th Ala. Regiment, 1864Written by Lieutenant Colonel Hilary A. Herbert at Orange Court House, Va. Manuscript copy. |
Folder 25 |
Volume 3: Notes on a European trip, October 1887Written by Hilary A. Herbert while on his way home on the ship City of Richmond. The notes are a continuation of the letters he sent home while abroad. |
Folder 26 |
Volume 4: Hilary A. Herbert Diary, September 1910-November 1917 |
Folder 27 |
Volume 5: Herbert's "Jottings" on politics and on his book The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences, March-April 1912 |
Folder 28 |
Volume 6: A supplement to the reminiscences, August-September 1917Further reflections on slavery, politics, the war, and Reconstruction. Written by Herbert at Chautauqua. |
Folder 29 |
Volume 7: 1892-1897; 1907-1908Pictures and clippings relating to the Micou-Herbert family, chiefly from social columns of newspapers. Also included are general items relating to Hilary A. Herbert. |
Folder 30 |
Volume 8: 1892-1893Clippings relating to Herbert's appointment as Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet. |
Folder 31 |
Volume 9: "Personal Clippings," March 1893-October 1894Clippings about Herbert and matters in which he was involved. |
Folder 32 |
Volume 10: 1894-1896Clippings about the Annual Naval Report, taken from various newspapers in November and December of each year from 1894-1896. |
Folder 33 |
Volume 11: 1891-1910Miscellaneous clippings, pictures, and poems. Also includes a Confederate reminiscence, written in the book and dated 1891. |
Folder 34 |
Folder number not used |
Oversize Volume SV-2481/12 |
Volume 12: 1894-1919Includes clippings from newspapers and magazines, telegrams, notes, Herbert's book reviews and articles. Also contains obituary notices and tributes, 1919. |
Josiah Gorgas was a United States and later Confederate ordnance officer. A copy of the diary represented in folder 35 is also housed in folder 2 the Josiah Gorgas Papers, #279-z.
Folder 35 |
Volume 13: Diary of Josiah Gorgas, "Section III," 27 December 1864-1 July 1877Typescript. 149 pages. |
Folder 36 |
Volume 14: Extracts from Notes on Confederate Ordnance, by Josiah Gorgas"Written chiefly soon after the close of the war." Typescript. 41 pages. |