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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Wilson Hines Papers, #1829, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private owner in 1951.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

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--Social conditions.
• Family--Ohio--Social life and customs.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Hines family.
• Hines, John Wilson, 1841-1915.
• Lacy, Elliott.
• Love-letters--19th century.
• McEwen, Alice.
• Ohio--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Peace.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Wells, George.

• See also Edward Payson Reeve Papers (#1828), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

John Wilson Hines, a native of Virginia, moved to Ohio and served as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, Hines travelled briefly to east Tennessee, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Va., settling eventually in Minnesota.

MICROFILM ONLY. Papers include a certificate of medical leave and a personal letter from Hines to George Wells in Tennessee, 1862-1863; nineteen items, 1862-1863, including letters and official military papers addressed to Hines from friends, family members in both North and South, and commanding officers, regarding the death of Hine's Confederate brother, news from his family in Virginia, and military correspondence concerning his duty assignments; twenty-six items from 1865, including letters to Hines from his Ohio cousins, from female friends, and from soldiers in other camps, about military orders and news of friends and family; ten items from 1866, including scattered personal correspondence from family and friends indicating their desire to resettle, move west, and begin new jobs, and Hines's love letters to Alice McEwen; verses, dated 1892, in memory of Elliott Lacy; obituary clippings; and undated correspondence from Hines' sister and other members of his family in Virginia and Ohio.

Microfim (M-1829/1)