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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hardee and Zacharie Family Papers, #1477, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. George W. Hardee of New Orleans, La., 1948; and Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jr., 1956.

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: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010; Nancy Kaiser, 2021

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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• Account books.
• Brownsville (Tex.)--Economic conditions.
• Commission merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army
• Confederate States of America. Army. Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 25th.
• Consuls--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th century.
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Diplomatic and consular service, Chilean--History--19th century.
• Finance--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Hardee family.
• Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873.
• Insurance--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• James W. Zacharie and Company (New Orleans, La.)
• Louisiana--Economic conditions.
• Merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Real estate business--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Zacharie family.
• Zacharie, Francis C. (Francis Charles), 1839-1910.
• Zacharie, James S. (James Schatzell), 1844-1906.

James W. Zacharie and Company were a New Orleans firm of commission merchants whose business included general merchandising, finance, insurance, and real estate. William Joseph Hardee (1815-1873) was a Confederate general.

This collection includes account books, grants and deeds, letter books, shipping records, and other business papers, chiefly 1830-1886, of James W. Zacharie and Company, a New Orleans firm of commission merchants also engaged in general merchandising, finance, insurance, and in the real estate business, particularly in Louisiana and at Brownsville, Tex. Also included is a record book of Francis C. Zacharie, colonel, 25th Louisiana Regiment, Confederate States of America; a few military papers of Confederate General William Joseph Hardee, including a brief correspondence with Jefferson Davis (1808-1889); and a letterpress copybook of James S. Zacharie (fl. 1898-1899) as Chilean consul at New Orleans, 1898-1899.

• Oversize volumes (SV-1477/2-8)
• Photographs (PF-1477/1)