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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William H. Haigh Papers, #2649-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from John Newton Watt, H. Marshall Pemberton, Joseph Boykin Pemberton, David MacKethan Pemberton, James A. Moore, Joseph Underwood Moore, John Underwood, William Emmett Underwood, George Badger Underwood, and Hamilton Polk Underwood, January 1944.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, December 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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Badger family.
• Badger, George Edmund, 1795-1866.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Diaries.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Haigh, William H.
• Law--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Methodist Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Point Lookout (Md.)
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

William H. Haigh (1823-1870) of Fayetteville, N.C., was educated at the University of North Carolina and studied law under George Edmund Badger in Raleigh, N.C. During the Civil War, Haigh was a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md.

The collection includes the diary of William Hooper Haigh while a student at the University of North Carolina, 1841-1842, in Chapel Hill, and studying law under George Edmund Badger in Raleigh, N.C., 1843-1844. Entries include comments on people and events in Haigh's life, including Raleigh and Chapel Hill social activities, the Methodist and Episcopal churches, and activities of the Badger family, and local, state, and national politics. Also included are two long letters, 1865, written by Haigh as a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md., describing prison conditions and routine, and a speech on Independence Day, 1846.

• Transcription Volume (TV-2649/1)