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Collection Number: 05671-z

Collection Title: Cook Family Papers, 1864-1866, 1919

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Size 11 items
Abstract The Cook Family Papers chiefly consist of Civil War military records and letters of C. J. Cook, David Haze Cook, and Carolina Cook. Military records concern medical furloughs. Letters from family and friends at home in Mt. Gilead, N.C., discuss health, farming and social activities, religion, cavalry horses, the locations of other family and friends serving in the Confederate Army, and rumors of a Negro uprising.
Creator Cook family.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
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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 Cook Family Papers #05671-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Digital copies of items in this collection are available online at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Alice and David Wilder of Mt. Gilead, N.C., in January 2016 (Acc. 102499). This collection was transferred from the Stanly County Museum.
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.
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2016

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2016

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David Haze Cook served in Company K, 5th North Carolina Cavalry (Barringer's Brigade). His sister, Carolina Cook, wrote from the family home and farm in Mt. Gilead, N.C. Their father, C. J. Cook, was a private in Company C, Mallet's Battalion, North Carolina Camp Guards, at Camp Holmes near Raleigh, N.C.

Both David Haze Cook and John Henry Montgomery were past master's of Blackmer Lodge No. 127 in Mt. Gilead, N.C.

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The Cook Family Papers chiefly consist of Civil War military records and letters of C. J. Cook, his son David Haze Cook, and his daughter Carolina Cook. The military records concern medical furloughs for C. J. Cook, who was a private in Company C, Mallet's Battalion, North Carolina Camp Guards, at Camp Holmes near Raleigh, N.C. Letters from family and friends at home in Mt. Gilead, N.C., to David Haze Cook, who was serving in Company K, 5th North Carolina Cavalry (Barringer's Brigade), near Richmond, Va., describe health, farming and social activities, mumps treatment, religion, cavalry horses, and the locations of friends and relations also serving in the Confederate Army. Carolina Cook's letter of 17 December 1864 reports rumors of "Negros arising," having killed a few people already and plotting "to kill all the white men and old women and have the young women for their wives...." Also included are an order for payment to Calvin Cook by Dr. John Henry Montgomery and a 1919 obituary for David Haze Cook.

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11 items.

Folder 1

1864-1866, 1919

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