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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Wooster Family Papers, #2120-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Alice Boatwright, 1939.

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, May 2009

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.

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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• Anti-Catholicism--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
• College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Miller, Ann Empie Wooster, 1825-1899.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Wooster family.
• Wooster, John Lewis, 1831-1885.
• Wooster, Lucy Wright, 1801-1864.
• Wooster, William Augustus, 1839-1862.

The Wooster family of Wilmington, N.C., counted among its members Lucy Wright Wooster (fl. 1844-1846) and her children, Ann Empie Wooster (fl. 1844-1846), William Augustus Wooster (1839-1862), and John Lewis Wooster (1831-1885).

The collection includes correspondence and papers of the Wooster family, chiefly 1844-1865. Most of the collection consists of letters to Ann Empie Wooster from her mother, Lucy Wright Wooster, in Philadelphia, Pa., and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 1844-1846, describing life in those places and including an account of anti-Catholic rioting in Philadelphia; papers of Lucy Wright Wooster's son, William Augustus Wooster (1839-1862); and Civil War letters from another son, John Lewis Wooster (1831-1885), and other military and civilian relatives discussing conditions and events of the war at home in Wilmington, N.C, and in camps in South Carolina and North Carolina. Papers of William A. Wooster include essays he wrote as a student at the University of North Carolina, 1859-1860, and lengthy letters, 1860-1862, that he wrote while serving with the 18th North Carolina Regiment (and perhaps other units) about camp life, and other military matters, as well as social affairs and philosophical ruminations. Following his death in battle, 1862, there is a group of letters of condolence written to the family.