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Size | About 30 items |
Abstract | A. L. Long was a United States Army officer, Confederate brigadier general of artillery, and secretary and biographer of General Robert E. Lee. The collection is chiefly postbellum correspondence with other officers about Civil War military actions, especially at Gettysburg, and his reminiscences of his United States Army career, 1850-1860, in the South and West. Correspondents include James Longstreet (1821-1904), William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883), Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), and Henry Jackson Hunt (1819-1889). |
Creator | Long, A. L. (Armistead Lindsay), 1827-1891. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 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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A. L. Long was a United States Army officer, Confederate brigadier general of artillery, and secretary and biographer of General Robert E. Lee.
Back to TopThe collection is chiefly postbellum correspondence with other officers about Civil War military actions, especially at Gettysburg, and his reminiscences of his United States Army career, 1850-1860, in the South and West. Correspondents include James Longstreet (1821-1904), William Nelson Pendleton (1809-1883), Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), and Henry Jackson Hunt (1819-1889).
Back to TopFolder 1 |
1754-1848 |
Folder 2 |
1862-1886 |
Folder 3 |
Sketch and notes |
Folder 4 |
Recollections, 1850-1860 |
Reel M-2503/1-3
M-2503/1M-2503/2M-2503/3 |
Microfilm |