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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Phifer Family Papers, #2726-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Dr. E. W. Phifer of Morganton, N.C., September 1943.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 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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• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Medical care.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Battalion, 5th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 49th.
• Lincolnton (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Phifer family.
• Phifer, Edward K., 1844-1864.
• Phifer, Elizabeth Caroline Ramseur, 1819-1884.
• Phifer, George L., 1841-1909.
• Phifer, John F. (John Fulenwider), 1810-1886.
• Phifer, Will Locke, 1843-1863.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

John F. Phifer, a manufacturer, and his wife, Elizabeth Caroline Ramseur Phifer, resided in Lincolnton, N.C. John and Elizabeth had three sons who served in the Confederate army, Private Will Locke (died 1963), 5th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry; Lieutenant Edward K. (died 1864), Company K, 49th North Carolina Regiment; and Captain George S.

The collection includes Civil War letters exchanged by Lieutenant Edward K. Phifer (died 1864), in Virginia and eastern North Carolina; his parents, John F. Phifer and Elizabeth Caroline Ramseur Phifer, in Lincoln County, N.C.; and his brothers, Private Will Locke Phifer (died 1863), in Tennessee, and Captain George S. Phifer, in Virginia and North Carolina, in the Confederate Army; papers about Edward Phifer's hospitalization and death at Petersburg, Va., and conditions in Petersburg, June-July 1864; and other family papers. Most items and correspondence of Edward K. Phifer deal with military movements, living conditions, fighting, casualties, desertions, recruiting and drilling troops, and family and community news from Lincolnton.