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| Size | 4 items |
| Abstract | Thomas Miles Garrett of Hertford and Bertie counties, N.C., was a member of the University of North Carolina class of 1851; lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; and colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. The collection includes several unbound sections and a typed bound copy of the diary of Thomas Miles Garrett while a student at the University of North Carolina, written, with missing dates, 13 June 1849 to 16 November 1850. In the diary, Garrett recorded his observations on daily happenings at the University; classes; faculty; living conditions; meetings and affairs of the literary societies, especially the Philanthropic Society, of which he was a member; Episcopal and Presbyterian churches in Chapel Hill; a number of the students, including Joseph Alonzo Manning, John Robert Waddill, and John W. Moore of Hertford County, class of 1853; and a visit to Cornelia Phillips (Cornelia Phillips Spencer). |
| Creator | Garrett, Thomas Miles, 1830-1864. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Manuscripts Department Staff, January 1979
Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, December 2004
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Biographical Information
Thomas Miles Garrett (1830-1864), of Hertford County, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in the class of 1851. He practiced law at Windsor, N.C., then, serving as colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War, was killed at Spottsylvania, 12 May 1864.
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The collection includes several unbound sections and a typed bound copy of the diary of Hertford County, N.C., lawyer Thomas Miles Garrett while a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., written, with some dates missing, 13 June 1849 to 16 November 1850. In the diary, Garrett recorded his observations on daily happenings at the University; classes; faculty; living conditions; meetings and affairs of the literary societies, especially the Philanthropic Society, of which he was a member; Episcopal churches and Presbyterian churches in Chapel Hill; and a number of the students, including Joseph Alonzo Manning, John Robert Waddill, John W. Moore of Hertford County, class of 1853; and a visit to Cornelia Phillips (Cornelia Phillips Spencer).
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Diary, 1849-1850.
Topics include the following:
| 1849 | p. 6: Ole Mr. Hooper: Archibald MacLaine Hooper, 1775-1853 |
| 1849 | p. 17: Examining apparatus in Professor Phillips's philosophic chamber, giving description of instruments including a telescope |
| 1849 | p. 19-21: National politics; forboding of breaking up Union |
| 1849 | p. 22: Card playing and attitudes towards same |
| 1849 | p. 37: Episcopal Church and the Reverend Thomas F. Davis, Jr., to whom there are frequent references throughout |
| 1849 | p. 43: July 4 celebration at Hillsborough, N.C., by the Sons of Temperance |
| 1849 | p. 44: Celebration in Chapel Hill, Geroge Haughton, alias the North Carolina bard, delivering the oration; walk in environs of Chapel Hill |
| 1849 | p. 46: Return from the Devision room of Sons of Temperance in the village and the meeting |
| 1849 | p. 50-55: Meeting with Henry Kollock Nash (1816-1897) and attending political meeting with candidates for Congress, Nash, and Abraham Watkins Venable (1799-1876); speeches; drunkeness at meeting |
| 1849 | p. 56: Uncle Augustus Holley paying his expenses at the University, but wanting him to attend Randolph Macon College and decision not to do so |
| 1849 | p. 60: Going to the bath; also mentioned elsewhere in diary |
| 1849 | p. 67: Description of Elisha Mitchell (1793-1847) |
| 1849 | p. 71: Public meeting about railroad improvements int he state; speakers William A. Graham (1804-1875) and David L. Swain (1801-1868) |
| 1849 | p. 75: Fire in East Building |
| 1849 | p. 82: Sons of Temperance meeting in college library; new members initiated; plans for meeting a room for the organization |
| 1849 | p. 88: Roommate ill; Dr. Jones in attendance; treatment |
| 1849 | p. 95: The Reverend T. J. Wheat, to whom there are frequent references |
| 1849 | p. 130: Description of Chapel of the Cross |
| 1849 | p. 140-141: Presbyterian Church |
| 1849 | p. 146-152: Long account of quarrel between Garrett and a student named McKay with pistols involved and lives threatened |
| 1849 | p. 228: 21 November 1849 gift of a silver pitcher by the students to the Reverend William Mercer Green (1798-1887), elected Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi |
| 1850 | p. 275: 1 August: State elections; bad behavior of people |
| 1850 | p. 280: 7 August: Beginning of classes in chemistry under Elisha Mitchell; description of the work |
| 1850 | p. 284: Major, my servant failing to wake Garrett up |
| 1850 | p. 288-289: Account of a concert with Mr. Butterworth, pianist, also playing a Franklonion, by which music is made by rubbing a wet hand over top edges of glasses |
| 1850 | p. 309: Lecture on temperance, Garrett stating that the speaker was an important man, but not giving his name; described ability to enthrall his audience |
| 1850 | p. 326-327: Call on Cornelia Phillips (Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908)) with a description of her |
| 1850 | p. 332: Garrett's experiments in inhaling ether |
| 1850 | p. 336: 14 November: Day set aparat by state authorities as Thanksgiving Day |
| Folder 1 |
Diary
Digital version: Excerpts from the Diary of Thomas M. Garrett, 4 July and 31 August
1849
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| Folder 2 |
Transcript |
| Folder 3 |
Enclosures |
