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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cadwallader Jones Papers, #2487, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Lee Sledge of Greensboro, Ala.

Received from Annie Cadwallader Coles of New York, N.Y., November 1954.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 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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• Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Greensboro (Ala.)--Social conditions.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Iredell family.
• Jones family.
• Jones, Cadwallader, b. 1843.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
• Rock Hill (S.C.)--Social conditions.
• Sharecropping--United States--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.

Cadwallader Jones (born 1843) was a Confederate captain with the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the son of Colonel Cadwallader Jones and Annie Isabella Iredell Jones, daughter of North Carolina governor James Iredell. He was educated at Hillsborough Military Academy and was later married to Emily Skinner Johnson.

The collection is chiefly Civil War correspondence between Cadwallader Jones, Confederate captain serving with the Army of Northern Virginia, and friends and relatives (members of the Jones and Iredell families) at the family plantation near Rock Hill, S.C., in Greensboro, Ala., and Hillsborough, N.C. Topics discussed include camp life; skirmishes and battles in Virginia; the defense of Charleston, S.C.; public reactions (especially of female correspondents) to war news; economic and social conditions on the home front; North Carolina politics during the war; and the deaths of family members. Earlier items include a letter, 1847, to Annie Isabella (Iredell) Jones from her mother, wife of North Carolina governor James Iredell; and letters to Cadwallader Jones, 1859-1860, in Rock Hill. Later items, chiefly 1922-1925, include a letter, 1866, in which A. C. Jones writes of the situation of the southern planter and the beginning of the sharecropping system. Also included are Cadwallader Jones's reminiscences of his Confederate service.