Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Archibald McFadyen Papers, #00464-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available (Acc. 103351 not included on microfilm).

Acquisitions Information

Original deposit received prior to 1940; addition received from Jean McGraw in April 2018 (Acc. 103351).

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Jordan, January 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2018; Nancy Kaiser, November 2020

This collection was processed with support from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Autograph albums--History--19th century.
• Clergy--Alabama--History.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Autographs.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 5th.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• Marriage records--Alabama.
• Marriage records--North Carolina.
• Marriage service--Southern States--History--19th century.
• McFadyen, Archibald, 1836-1911.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Presbyterian Church--Alabama--Clergy--History.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--Clergy--History.
• Prisoners of war--Confederate States of America--Autographs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

• Archibald McFadyen Broadside, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Archibald McFadyen (1836-1911) was a Presbyterian minister of Bladen County, N.C. During the American Civil War he served as a lieutenant in Company A, 5th North Carolina Cavalry.

The Archibald McFadyen Papers contain records of marriages performed by McFadyen in southeastern North Carolina and Alabama and of fees received, 1868-1911, along with text for a wedding service (handwritten); his autograph book, 1862 from the University of North Carolina; his notebook of autographs of Confederate officers, power of attorney statement, poems and other verse, and lists of goods received and books read while he was imprisoned during the American Civil War at Johnson's Island, Ohio; and his official discharge papers from prison, June 1865.

Microfilm (M-464/1)