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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Hubbard Saunders Papers, #650, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joseph H. Saunders of Williamston, N.C., prior to 1940.

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 33rd.
• Cotton growing--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Cotton trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--North Carolina.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Saunders, Joseph Hubbard, 1800-1839.
• Saunders, Joseph Hubbard, 1839-1885.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

• William Laurance Saunders papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Joseph Hubbard Saunders (1839-1885) of Orange County, N.C., a planter and Confederate officer of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment, served in Virginia and eastern North Carolina, and was imprisoned at Johnsons Island, Ohio.

The bulk of the collection consists of family correspondence and business papers after the Civil War of Joseph Hubbard Saunders, but there is some Civil War material, including letters written home by Saunders while he was an officer of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia and eastern North Carolina, and in prison at Johnsons Island, Ohio; letters he received from other soldiers; and military receipts and other financial documents. Antebellum papers pertain to his mother's family, the Bakers of North Carolina; the Burges family of Halifax County, N.C.; and to Saunders's father, also Joseph Hubbard Saunders (1800-1839), an Episcopal priest of North Carolina and Florida. Postwar material includes correspondence and accounts relating to cotton growing and marketing, including accounts with commission merchants, and personal accounts for lumber, groceries, furniture, and medical care. Among correspondents represented in the collection are Levi Silliman Ives, William Laurance Saunders, Hugh Gaston, William T. Nicholson, R. F. Hoke, Zebulon B. Vance, James H. Lane, James L. G. Baker, and William Grimes.