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Size | 7.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,000 items) |
Abstract | Edward Porter Alexander was an engineer, United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, and planter. Civil War papers include diaries and notebooks, voluminous postwar correspondence with other officers concerning a proposed history of Longstreet's corps and preparation of Alexander's memoirs (published 1907), drafts of the manuscript and other writings, speeches, and collected histories of various army units. Other papers include letters from the Adam Leopold Alexander family of Savannah and Washington, Ga.; papers of the Alexander H. Mason family of Hagerstown, Md.; scattered business letters; E.P. Alexander's letters from Nicaragua, 1896-1899, while he served as arbitrator in the Costa Rica-Nicaragua boundary dispute; diary of a trip to Panama and Nicaragua in 1900; papers concerning South Island property, Georgetown County, S.C.; memoirs of early life; miscellaneous writings; and photographs of Alexander at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., "Mrs. Morris," a Confederate spy, various family members, and views of unidentified buildings and houses. |
Creator | Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Revisions by: Kathryn Michaelis, August 2010; Nancy Kaiser, August 2020
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Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910) was an engineer, United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, and planter.
Back to TopCivil War papers include diaries and notebooks, voluminous postwar correspondence with other officers concerning a proposed history of Longstreet's corps and preparation of Alexander's memoirs (published 1907), drafts of the manuscript and other writings, speeches, and collected histories of various army units. Other papers include letters from the Adam Leopold Alexander family of Savannah and Washington, Ga.; papers of the Alexander H. Mason family of Hagerstown, Md.; scattered business letters; E.P. Alexander's letters from Nicaragua, 1896-1899, while he served as arbitrator in the Costa Rica-Nicaragua boundary dispute; diary of a trip to Panama and Nicaragua in 1900; papers concerning South Island property, Georgetown County, S.C.; memoirs of early life; miscellaneous writings; and photographs of Alexander at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., "Mrs. Morris," a Confederate spy, various family members, and views of unidentified buildings and houses.
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