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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Maxwell Troax Clarke Papers #2592, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for copying by Maxwell Clarke Wallace of Richmond, Va., in April 1943.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, July 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Photoprints; originals returned to donor in 1943. This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2021

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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• Autobiographies--Virginia.
• Bland family.
• Clark family.
• Clarke, Colin, 1792-1865.
• Clarke, Maxwell Troax, 1830-1911.
• Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Education--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Gloucester County (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Good family.
• Plantations--Virginia--Gloucester County.
• Slavery--Confederate States of America.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Occupied territories.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--Biography.
• Virginia--Genealogy.
• Warner Hall (Gloucester County, Va.)

Chiefly letters, 1862-1863, to Clarke from his father, Colin Clarke (1792-1865), planter and lawyer, living at Warner Hall, Gloucester County, Va., describing hardships of life under occupation by Union forces during the Civil War. The letters describe difficulties obtaining food and clothing, trouble with slaves, prices of commodities, methods of smuggling articles through the Union lines, and depredations by federal troops. Also included are a short autobiography of Maxwell Clarke, written in 1890, describing his education in the antebellum period and his Confederate Army experiences; some Confederate commissions and orders; and genealogical material on the Clarke, Goode, and Bland families.