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 Phillips and Myers Family Papers, #596, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

The journal of Fanny Cohen Taylor was edited by Spencer B. King, Jr., and published as "Fanny Cohen's Journal of Sherman's occupation of Savannah," in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XLI (December, 1957), p. 407-416.

Acquisitions Information

1940, 1944, and 1946

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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.

• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Families--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Kennan, George, 1845-1924.
• Legislators--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Legislators--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Legislators--United States--History--19th century.
• Levy family.
• Library of Congress. Map Division--History.
• Map collections--United States--History.
• Myers family.
• Phillips family.
• Phillips, Eugenia Levy..
• Phillips, P. (Philip), 1807-1884.
• Phillips, Philip Lee, 1857-1924.
• Phillips, W. Hallett (William Hallett), 1853-1897.
• Salmon, Tati.
• Savannah (Ga.)--History.
• Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Sherman's March to the Sea--Personal narratives.
• Ship Island (Miss.)--History.
• Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)--Social life and customs.
• Taylor, Fanny Cohen, 1840-1938.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Yellowstone National Park--History.

• Phoebe Yates (Levy) Pember letters (#2232), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Phillips family includes Philip Phillips (1807-1884), South Carolina and Alabama State legislator and United States Representative from Alabama; his wife, Eugenia (Levy) Phillips (1819-1901); their sons, William Hallett Phillips (1853-1897) and P. Lee Phillips (1857-1924); and related members of the Levy and Myers families of Savannah, Ga., and Washington, D. C.

The collection includes business papers of Philip Phillips; correspondence and a journal dealing with Mrs. Phillips's imprisonment for abetting the Southern cause, by order of General Benjamin F. Butler, at Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico in 1862; correspondence of William H. Phillips regarding the Yellowstone National Park; journals, including one of Fanny Cohen Taylor about Sherman's occupation of Savannah; and a scrapbook. Correspondents include George Kennan (1845-1924), Siberian traveler and writer; Tati Salmon, planter, government official, and chief of a Tahitian clan, describing the customs and politics of Tahiti; and prominent jurists who wrote concerning the legal writings of P. Lee Phillips and William H. Phillips. Also, correspondence of P. Lee Phillips concerning maps, mapping, and geographical questions related to the map collection at the Library of Congress.

• Photographs (PF-596/1, XOP-PF-596/1)
• Microfilm (M-596/1-2)