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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the W.H.T. Squires Papers, #1644-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, September 2010

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.

• Autobiographies--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Children--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Artillery.
• Genealogists--Virginia--Correspondence.
• Louisiana--Biography.
• Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Merchants--Missouri--History--19th century.
• New Orleans (La.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Saint Louis (Mo.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Squire family.
• Squires, Charles W. (Charles Winder), 1841-1900.
• Squires, W. H. T. (William Henry Tappey), 1875-1948.

The collection is chiefly genealogical correspondence and notes, 1903-1938, of Squires of Norfolk, Va., along with an autobiography by his father, Charles Winder Squires (1841-1900), written about 1894, describing the author's early life in Louisiana, service throughout the Civil War as an officer of the Washington (La.) Artillery, and career as a merchant in New Orleans and Saint Louis after the war.