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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 C.A. Withers's Humor and Pathos, #1670-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by Julia Patton Hughes Spurr of Lexington, Ky., January 1950.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 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.

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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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• Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 1st.
• Escapes--United States--History--19th century.
• Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Withers, C. A., b. 1842.

C. A. Withers (born 1842) of Lexington, Ky., served in the Confederate army with the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment in Virginia early in the Civil War; he then moved to the western theater, was captured during the Vicksburg campaign, and was later exchanged. He also served with General John Hunt Morgan's partisans in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, was captured in the same engagement in which Morgan was killed, escaped from prison to Canada, and returned to the South by way of Cuba.

The collection includes a typescript copy of Confederate recollections of C. A. Withers emphasizing humor, pathos, and adventure. The recollections particularly relate to attitudes and conditions in the border states.