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[Identification of item], in the C. Seymour Bullock Letters, #2007-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Partial microfilm copy available.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011; Nancy Kaiser, May 2021

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

• Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877.
• Buel, E. P.
• Buford, Abraham, 1820-1884.
• Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Davis, Samuel.
• Graham, J. R.
• Hooker, C. E.
• Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
• Mullens, S.
• Taylor, Hancock.
• Taylor, R. H.
• Taylor, Walker.
• Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850.
• Trotter, M. E.

The collection contains letters to and from Jefferson Davis, including an 1856 invitation from A. T. Bledsoe to Jefferson Davis to an evening party; a typescript copy of a letter, June 1823, from Sam Davis to his son Jefferson concerning family and personal news; and typescript and photostatic copies of a letter from Jefferson Davis to Major Walker Taylor in 1889, denying the rumor that he had intended to capture or assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Also included are photostatic copies of other items, including a bill, 1854, from Oak Hill Cemetery for burial expenses for Jefferson Davis' son; a letter, 20 March 1862, from S. Mullens, secretary of the Navy, Confederate States of America, to Jefferson Davis regarding the battle of the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimac); a letter, 27 February 1865, from Mrs. M. E. Trotter and Miss E. P. Buel, to Jefferson Davis, offering their services, perhaps as spies, to the Confederacy; and a letter, 18 December 1878, from Jefferson Davis to C. E. Hooker responding to inquiries about former personal belongings. Additional items include a typescript copy of a letter, 3 September 1883, from Jefferson Davis to Hancock Taylor, General Abe Buford, and R. H. Taylor, declining an invitation to appear at the dedication of a monument to Zachary Taylor; and a printed reproduction of a portrait of Stonewall Jackson, with a photostatic copy of an explanation from the artist, J. R. Graham.

Microfilm (M-2007/1)