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Collection Number: 05709

Collection Title: F. Carlyle Shepard Papers, 1944-1972

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Size 32 items
Abstract Veteran F. Carlyle Shepard's collection contains his recollections of military service in Europe during World War I and World War II. Other materials are transcriptions of letters written home from overseas between January 1944 and May 1945 and letters to family members written between 1966 and 1972, the latter containing personal recollections about family members in North Carolina and the army. Genealogical information about the Shepard family is included.
Creator Shepard, F. Carlyle (Frederick Carlyle)
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 F. Carlyle Shepard Papers #5709, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from George E. Shepard, Jr. in December 2016 (Acc. 102991).
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: Laura Hart, January 2017

Encoded by: Laura Hart, January 2017

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F. Carlyle Shepard was born 27 November 1895 in South Carolina. His family later moved to Wilmington, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina (UNC), but left at the end of 1917 to join the U.S. Army. After the close of World War I, he returned to UNC and finished his A.B. degree in 1921. He then received master's and doctoral degrees in education. His 1938 doctoral thesis was titled An Investigation of the Relation Between Physiological and Personality Changes During Adolescence. He served in the European theater during World War II, and he died in 1975.

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Veteran F. Carlyle Shepard's collection contains his recollections of military service in Europe during World War I and World War II. Other materials are transcriptions of letters written home from overseas between January 1944 and May 1945 and letters to family members written between 1966 and 1972, the latter containing personal recollections about family members in North Carolina and the army. Genealogical information about the Shepard family is included.

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Contents list

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32 items.

Digital Folder DF-5709/1

World War I

"An account of my personal experiences in World War I written from my recollections as they have emerged after a period of 47 years." Written in 1964.

Digital Folder DF-5709/2

World War II

"World War II. As seen through the emotions of F. Carlyle Shepard. Memories as recollected in tranquility some twenty years later when reading the Work Horse of the Western Front, The Story of the 30th Infantry' Division, by Robert L. Hewitt." Written between 1961 and 1966.

Other recollections are titled "Waiting-The Build Up," "Incident Near Gauciel," "Embarking & Debarking" "Christmas Eve In The Bulge," "D-Day," and "Incident At Mortain."

Also included are "Origin Of My Writing Of My Memories of World War I & World War II" and transcriptions of contemporary World War II documents such as a newspaper article, a letter of commendation, and letters written by Shepard to his family between 1944 and 1945.

Digital Folder DF-5709/3

Shepard Family, 1966-1972

Chiefly transcriptions of family letters containing recollections about family in North Carolina and the army. Also included is Shepard family genealogical information.

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