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Collection Number: 01049-z

Collection Title: Kena King Chapman Diary, 1865.

This collection has use restrictions. For details, please see the restrictions.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

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.

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Size 2 items
Abstract Kena King Chapman (1839-1892) of Smithfield, Va., was an ordnance officer and 2nd lieutenant in Company A, 19th Virginia Battalion, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, Confederate States of America. The collection is Chapman's diary, 3 April-24 April 1865, while serving in the Confederate army, describing the surrender at Appomattox and the closing days of the war, as well as his journey home to Smithfield, Va. The diary also includes some financial accounts, a list of men present at the surrender at Appomattox, and poems.
Creator Chapman, Kena King, 1839-1892.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
Original diary may not be photocopied.
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 Kena King Chapman Diary, #1049-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Typed transcription available.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the estate of Margaret Chapman of Chapel Hill, N.C., 1981.
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2010

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.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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Kena King Chapman (1839-1892) of Smithfield, Va., was an ordnance officer and 2nd lieutenant in Company A, 19th Virginia Battalion, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, Confederate States of America.

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The collection is a diary, 3 April-24 April 1865, of Kena King Chapman while an ordnance officer and 2nd lieutenant, Company A, 19th Virginia Battalion, Crutchfield's Artillery Brigade, Confederate States of America, describing the surrender at Appomattox and the closing days of the war, as well as his journey home to Smithfield, Va. The diary also includes some financial accounts, a list of men present at the surrender at Appomattox, and poems.

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Contents list

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Folder 1

Original finding aid

Diary, April 1865

Restriction: Photocopying not permitted.

Transcription of diary

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