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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 Alonzo J. Willis Papers, #4086-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from H. Stuart Willis of Chapel Hill, N.C., March 1976.

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.

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

• Broomall, John M. (John Martin), 1816-1894.
• High Point (N.C.)
• Insurance policies--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Maps, Manuscript.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Confiscations and contributions.
• Willis, Alonzo J., fl. 1865-1875.

Alonzo J. Willis (fl. 1865-1875) resided in High Point, N.C.

The collection includes letters, petitions, and other items, 1865-1875, of Alonzo J. Willis relating to his efforts to recover the cost of a horse and a mule confiscated by the Union Army after the Confederate surrender, including two letters from Congressman John Broomall of Pennsylvania. There are also miscellaneous bills and receipts, 1848-1858 and 1877; a hand-drawn plat map of High Point, 1859; letters and papers concerning a cancer cure; and material, 1949, relating to the redrafting of an insurance policy.

• Image (PF-4086/1).