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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Muldrup Logan Papers, #2388, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Volume 2: Memoirs of the Civil War years, Kate Virginia Cox Logan, 1890, was published as My Confederate Girlhood (1932).

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lily Logan Morrill of Keene, Va., October 1941. Additional material received from Logan Morrill of Washington, D.C., July 1944.

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• Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Cox family.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Hutson, Charles Woodward, 1840-1936.
• Logan family.
• Logan, Kate Virginia Cox, 1840-1915.
• Logan, Thomas Muldrup, 1840-1914.
• New Orleans (La.)--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--Social conditions.
• Women--Virginia--Diaries.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

• George William Logan Papers (#1560), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Diaries.

Thomas Muldrup Logan (1840-1914), a native of South Carolina, was a Confederate officer and later a lawyer and railroad executive of Richmond, Va. Logan was educated at South Carolina College and entered the Washington Light Infantry, beseiging Fort Sumter, at the start of the Civil War. He later served in the Hampton Legion, receiving rapid promotion, eventually being commissioned brigadier general in February 1865. After the war, he was a lawyer and business man in Richmond, Va., and married Kate Virginia Cox, daughter of James H. Cox of Chesterfield County, Va., in 1865.

The antebellum papers are Cox family letters, including two from Kate Cox while at school. Papers, 1861-1865, consist of correspondence of Kate with young women and soldiers, including one who went to Bermuda by blockade runner, and a few military papers of Thomas Muldrup Logan. Among the postwar papers are scattered correspondence of the Cox and Logan families and letters to Logan from business and former Confederate associates. Letters of the 1890s are from Mrs. Logan in Europe. Later papers are those of Logan's daughter, chiefly about her father's career, with letters and a biographical sketch of his friend, Charles Woodward Hutson, teacher and painter. Volumes include a diary, 1856-1860, of Kate Virginia Cox Logan and her memoirs of the Civil War years in Virginia, written in 1890 (later published as My Confederate Girlhood). Also included are copies of two letters, 1814, from soldiers camped near New Orleans, La., during the War of 1812.