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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Archibald A. McKeithen Papers, #2512-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1943; received from Anne McKeithen in July 2015 (Acc. 102278).

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

Updated because of addition by Jodi Berkowitz, August 2015

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.

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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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Maffitt, W. H., fl. 1836.
• McKeithen, Archibald A., active 1847.
• Medical students--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--History--19th century.
• New Bern, Battle of, New Bern, N.C., 1862.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Smith, H. H., fl. 1862.
• Turner, Hector, fl. 1847.

The collection consists of a letter, 1847, from Hector Turner, New York, N.Y., to Archibald A. McKeithen, Moore County, N.C., concerning Turner's medical studies and life in New York; a set of medical remedies, signed by W. H. Maffitt, 1836; and a letter, 1862, from H. H. Smith, serving with the Confederate army in Kinston, N.C., to Archibald A. McKeithen. This letter contains descriptions of camp life and the surrounding area, including the health of the company; Smith's evaluations and speculations; references to the Battle of New Bern; and a brief discussion of shared neighbors and acquaintances.