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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Christopher Wren Bunker Letters #4822-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 2005-2006) available.

• Reel 1: Letters, 1863-1864

Acquisitions Information

Received from Louise E. Buck Maloy of Sandy, Utah, in August 1995 (Acc. 96116) and Caleb Vance Haynes in April 2013 (Acc. 101785).

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Processed by: Linda Sellars, September 1996

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2005

Updated because of addition, January 2019

Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021

Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid and microfilming of this collection.

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• Bunker, Christopher Wren.
• Camp Chase (Ohio).
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Prisoners of war--United States--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Christopher Wren Bunker served in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. He was captured 7 August 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio.

The collection consists of seven letters, 1863-1864, from Christopher Wren Bunker in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia to his sister, and one letter, 12 October 1864, from Bunker in prison at Camp Chase, Ohio, to his father, mother, brother, and sisters. The letters describe the weather and military life and give news of friends. The letter from prison discloses that Bunker had been captured on 7 August 1864 and had been ill with smallpox at Camp Chase. The collection also contains an account book, 1880s, documenting personal and farm financial records of Christopher Wren Bunker.

• Microfilm reel (M-4822/1)