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[Identification of item], in the William Porcher Dubose Reminiscences, #1006-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Original privately owned as of 1946.

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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.

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• Abbeville (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--South Carolina.
• Children--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina--Students--History--19th century.
• Clergy--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• College students--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Chaplains.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Dubose, William Porcher, 1836-1918.
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Fairfield County (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Farmington Plantation (Fairfield County, S.C.)
• Fort Delaware (Del.)
• Mount Zion Academy (Winnsboro, S.C.)
• Plantation life--South Carolina.
• Plantations--South Carolina--Fairfield County.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina.
• Religious education--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Roseland Plantation (Fairfield County, S.C.)
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Theologians--United States--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
• University of the South--Faculty--History--19th century.
• Winnsboro (S.C.)--Social life and customs.

William Porcher Dubose served as a Confederate soldier and chaplain in Virginia and was captured and imprisoned at Fort Delaware. During Reconstruction he was an Episcopal minister in Abbeville and Winnsboro, S.C., and became a theologian at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1871.

The collection consists of a typed transcription of William Porcher Dubose's reminiscences. It contains informal recollections by Dubose of his childhood on Farmington and Roseland plantations in Fairfield County, near Winnsboro, S.C., including discussion of his education at Mt. Zion Academy, the Citadel, and the University of Virginia and theological studies at Camden, S.C.