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Copyright Notice

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 Edmund Janes Cleveland Diary, #2888-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Edmund J. Cleveland of Charles Town, Jefferson County, W.Va., October 1952.

Location of Originals

Location of original unknown.

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, January 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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• Beaufort (N.C.)--History.
• Cleveland, Edmund Janes, 1842-1902.
• Goldsboro (N.C.)--History.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
• Morehead City (N.C.)--History.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--History.
• Soldiers--United States--Diaries.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Occupied territories.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865)

Edmund Janes Cleveland (1842-1902) of New Jersey was a federal soldier with Company K, 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment who served during the Civil War in eastern North Carolina, 1864-1865.

The collection includes a typed copy (81 pages) of the diary of Private E. J. Cleveland of the 9th New Jersey Volunteers, from September 1864 to July 1865, while he was stationed in North Carolina, chiefly in the office of the Provost Marshal at Beaufort, but also in Morehead City, Goldsboro, Raleigh, and Greensboro. Cleveland descriebs hospital, church, and school activities and other social events and his military life.