This collection contains diaries (photocopies of typed transcripts only) of Richard Henry Adams, who served during the American Civil War in Company D, 5th Alabama Infantry and in Company H, 51st Alabama Partisan Rangers and was a prisoner of war from September, 1863, to June, 1865. Included are transcripts of three separate diaries, comprising a total of 54 pages: "Journal No. 1" spans April 7, 1862 to May 30, 1862; "Diary No. 2," September 11, 1862 to March 22, 1863; the third, incomplete, segment is headed "Prison Diary of Capt. R. H. Adams" and commences in early 1864 and ends with Adams' return home on July 3. Also in the collection is a photocopy of a 1980 newspaper article, "Radford at Random," relating to Adams and his granddaughter, Minnie ("Mickey") Adams Fitting.