John Gill Shorter papers, MSS.1267

Abstract: Copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials, including approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains copies of official papers, including correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials. Included are approximately thirty items concerning the University of Alabama and the Alabama Corps of Cadets during the Civil War.Biographical/Historical Note: John Gill Shorter was the seventeenth governor of of Alabama, from 1861 to 1863, during the Civil War. An attorney, he was born on 23 April 1818 in Monticello, Georgia, and died on 29 May 1872 in Eufaula, Alabama