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Collection Number: 02268-z

Collection Title: Richard Woolfolk Waldrop Papers, 1850-1867.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.

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.

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Size About 80 items
Abstract In part typed transcriptions of original items. Letters written home by Waldrop of Virginia, a member of the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, and his diary, 1863-1867, during the Civil War and in Richmond after the war. The letters discuss camp and battlefield conditions and rumors of military action. Also included is the diary, 1862-1865, of his brother, John Waldrop (1845-1891), with the Richmond (Va.) Howitzers; and a bound volume containing copies of letters, 1916-1917, from Eloise Waldrop to her father, R. W. Waldrop, while she was traveling throughout the Midwest with singer Alma Gluck.
Creator Waldrop, Richard Woolfolk, 1839-1918.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
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 the Richard Woolfolk Waldrop Papers, #2268-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift 1940
Location of Originals
Some originals at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.
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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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011

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.

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In part typed transcriptions of original items. Letters written home by Waldrop of Virginia, a member of the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, and his diary, 1863-1867, during the Civil War and in Richmond after the war. The letters discuss camp and battlefield conditions and rumors of military action. Also included is the diary, 1862-1865, of his brother, John Waldrop (1845-1891), with the Richmond (Va.) Howitzers; and a bound volume containing copies of letters, 1916-1917, from Eloise Waldrop to her father, R. W. Waldrop, while she was traveling throughout the Midwest with singer Alma Gluck.

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