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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Henry Murphy Papers, #3400-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Paul Murphy of Lowell, N.C., November 1958.

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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. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 51st.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gurganious, David, d. 1863.
• Murphy family.
• Murphy, John Henry, 1824-1889.
• New Hanover County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Wright family.

John Henry Murphy (1824-1889) of New Hanover (now Pender) County, N.C., was the sixth child of Cornelius Murphy. He married Elizabeth Catherine (Kate) Wright (1836-1879), and they had five children. He at one time acted as the administrator of the estate of David Gurganious (died 1863), an officer in the 51st North Carolina Regiment, Confederate Army.

The collection includes miscellaneous papers of John Henry Murphy, consisting chiefly of items relating to David Gurganious and his estate. There are five letters, 1862, from Gurganious while he was serving with the 51st North Carolina Regiment at James Island, S.C., mainly concerned with affairs at home. Also included are family letters, tax returns, and vouchers from the Murphy and Wright families. There is one letter, 1865, from J. C. Wright of the 46th North Carolina Regiment to his mother commenting on presidential peace efforts, conscription of freed slaves, and the exchange of prisoners. Also, one letter, 1871, to John Henry Murphy commenting on the impeachment of North Carolina Governor William Holden.