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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Paul Turner Vaughan Papers, #3199-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Bert Neville of Selma, Ala., 1956.

Location of Originals

Originals in private hands as of 1956.

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, May 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Camp Douglas (Ill.)
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th.
• Diaries.
• Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Vaughan, Paul Turner, 1839-1916.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Paul Turner Vaughan (1839-1916) was a Confederate soldier who served with the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Tennessee. Vaughan was apparently from Summerfield, Dallas County, Ala.

The collection is typed copies of letters written home by Paul Turner Vaughan, while a soldier of the 4th Alabama Regiment and of his diary, 20 pages, 4 March-6 November 1863, kept while he was serving in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and eastern Tennessee. Letters describe Fredericksburg, Va., camp life, shortages of clothing, snow, the prospect of Yankees entering Alabama, and his brother's health and release from Camp Douglas. The diary discusses troop movements, pickets, weather, food prices, an explosion in Richmond that killed twelve girls, church news, and how food shortages changed attitudes about foraging.