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[Identification of item], in the Kindred Reeves Civil War Reminiscence #5425-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Myron Lenoir Moore Jr. of Lenoir, N.C., in May 2009 (Acc. 101109).

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Processed by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

Encoded by: Kiley Orchard, May 2010

This collection was processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.

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--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Prisons.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Clingman's Brigade.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Capture, 1865.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• North Carolina. Militia.
• Reeves, Kindred, b. 1847.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

Kindred (Jackie) Reeves, born 22 April 1847 in Haywood County, N.C., began his military career on 30 April 1864, just eight days after his 17th birthday, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, 1st Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves (also referred to as the 9th Battalion North Carolina Junior Reserves). He was later promoted to sergeant and sent to Goldsboro, N.C., to be transferred to regular service as a member of Clingman's Brigade. His military service included action in Wilmington, N.C.; Weldon, N.C.; Bellefield, Va.; Petersburg, Va.; Tarboro, N.C.; and Goldsboro, N.C. According to the reminiscence, Reeves's father, Kindred Reeves, was one of the first in his town to declare himself a secessionist and the Reeves family, sympathetic to the Confederacy, offered room and board to passing soldiers at a low price or free of charge.

The collection consists of a handwritten Civil War reminiscences, 1907, of Kindred Reeves, including the "campaign and the intense excitement of the secession advocates" before the war; his family's reaction to seeing the eldest boy off to war; and his service during the war, including the guarding and treatment of northern prisoners and the attack on Fort Fisher, N.C.