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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 275 items) |
Abstract | The collection includes miscellaneous papers from various sources divided into the following series: correspondence, 1861-1865; songs, poems, clippings, photographs; maps, diagrams, and drawings; Benjamin W. Austin's collection of Confederate autographs, photographs, and clippings; official papers (including printed forms, North Carolina and other muster rolls); scrapbooks; recollections; and other items. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Tim Pyatt, April 1997
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020
Collection contains some very fragile items needing conservation treatment. Pictures need to be housed separately, but are currently housed with the papers as listed.
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The collection includes miscellaneous papers from various sources divided into the following series: correspondence, 1861-1865; songs, poems, clippings, photographs; maps, diagrams, and drawings; Benjamin W. Austin's collection of Confederate autographs, photographs, and clippings; official papers (including printed forms, North Carolina and other muster rolls); scrapbooks; recollections; and other items.
Back to TopReceived from various sources, including Terry Alford, Springfield, Mass. (May 1980); Schindler's (March 1962); Bert Neville (October 1957); David A. Williams, Rock Hill, S.C. (December 1960); and Alvin Lohr, Hagerstown, Md. (August 1960)
Miscellaneous Civil War era letters from Confederate soldiers from 1861-1862, including some copies and transcripts. Consists primarily of:
Folder 1 |
Unit 1 |
Received from various sources including Mrs. Clara Bell, Windsor, N.C. (September 1979), Louis Ginsberg, Petersburg, Va. (May 1977), Frank M. Parker, Raleigh (January 1979), Cohasco, New York (May 1971, June 1976), William M. Butler, Elkin, N.C. (December 1970), and James Pittman, Raeford, N.C. (August 1966). Information on Joseph S. Gooch provided by Daniel Mahar in July 2005.
Miscellaneous Civil War era letters from Confederate soldiers from 1863-1865, including some copies and transcripts. Consists primarily of:
Folder 2 |
Unit 2 |
Source unknown for most items, one item received from John W. Dunlap, Chapel Hill (1979), and one item transferred from the Bruce Cotten Papers #2073.
Songs, poems clippings, and pictures. Includes a History of the Bath (Va.) Squadron or Recollections of Thirty Years Ago, undated, reprinted from the Bath News; a list of Confederate soldiers from Pitt County, N.C.; inscription on the monument to the Confederate dead, Columbia, S.C. (typescript); words for "Dixie" (typescript); photograph of a sketch of the naval attack at Plymouth, N.C. (31 October 1864); and views of Lexington, Va., and Washington and Lee University.
Folder 3 |
Unit 3 |
Most items are source unknown; one item purchased from Robert K. Black, Upper Montclair, N.J. (March 1970).
Miscellaneous Confederate battle maps and drawings. Includes eleven Civil War drawings and battle diagrams from Northern Virginia, Pennsylvania, and an unidentified prison. Other items include two diagrams of the Savannah, Ga., area by O. W. Lowe, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, State Troops of Georgia together with the New York Tribune for 19 April 1862 which describes the fall of Pulaski and the siege of Fort Jackson.
Folder 4 |
Unit 4 |
From a scrapbook compiled by Ben W. Austin of Dallas, Texas (circa 1890); source unknown.
Autographs, Confederate forms, pictures, and biographical sketches of Confederates, including G. W. Custis Lee, Stephen D. Lee, and William S. Pendleton.
Folder 5 |
Unit 5 |
Unknown; some blank forms sold November 1993.
Blank Confederate forms, including two photocopies of copper plates used to print commission forms. Others forms include receipts, requisitions, and a quartermaster register form.
Folder 6 |
Unit 6 |
Received from various sources, including The Book Mart, Asheville, N.C. (September 1966), Schindler's, Charleston, S.C. (November 1962), Mrs. Clarence H. Pratt, Wilmington, N.C. (February 1958), Winston Broadfoot (September 1957), and unknown purchase (February 1944).
Miscellaneous muster rolls from North Carolina:
South Carolina:
Virginia:
XOPF-172/1 |
Unit 7 |
Received from various sources, including Raynor Hubbell of Griffin, Ga. (November 1960) and Winston Broadfoot (September 1957).
Miscellaneous official Confederate papers, including:
Folder 8 |
Unit 8 |
Transfers from the David L. Swain papers, #706; the North Carolina Collection; and other various sources.
Official North Carolina papers pertaining to the Confederate States of America, including:
Folder 9 |
Unit 9 |
Purchased from Cohasco, Inc.
Seven letters, 22 July 1861-24 August 1864 written by Mary Ann Albinson, a southern woman with Union sympathies, to Mrs. Lyford. Albinson has relatives in both the North and South and her letters record the problems she encounters as a Union sympathizer, and the life and attitudes in wartime Baltimore.
Folder 10 |
Unit 10 |
Received from Elizabeth Holsten, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Typed transcription of the Civil War reminiscences of Confederate Lieutenant Frederick C. Foard (UNC 1859-1860), aide to Brigadier General Rufus Barringer of the Gordon-Barringer brigade. Described are Foard's capture by Federal troops in June 1864, his escape en route to Fort Delaware, and his subsequent journey back to Confederate lines through parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
Folder 11 |
Unit 11 |
Unknown.
Unbound scrapbook composed primarily of N.C. newspaper clippings of poems and war accounts. With some handwritten notes.
Folder 12 |
Unit 12 |
Received from George T. Blackburn, II of Henderson, N.C. (December 1982).
Some Unpublished Incidents Connected with our late Civil War by Rev. J. B. Solomon, photocopy of an original manuscript.
Folder 13 |
Unit 13 |
Received from H. C. Sweeny of Durham, N.C., January 1983.
Photocopied typescript of Company F, 2nd Battalion, S.C. State Troops roster (1864-1865), and a photocopy of a 1930 news clipping about Robert H. Sweeny, a former member of the unit.
Folder 14 |
Unit 14 |
Received from Manassass Museum of Virginia, March 1983.
These letters are the property of the Manassass Museum and may not be reprinted with the express written consent of the museum.
Typescript copies of two letters from Capt. Cornelius Morris, while he served with Company K, 11th N.C. Infantry, to his wife. These letters are written from camps near Wilmington and Greenville, N.C., before the regiment transferred to the Virginia theater.
Folder 15 |
Unit 15 |
Received from Ann Withers Bair of Elizabeth City, N.C., October 1984.
Letter dated 19 January 1864 from Henry St. George Offutt, Chief of the Contract Bureau of the Confederate Postal Department, Richmond, Va., to Thomas A. Ratliff in Wentworth, Rockingham County, N.C., concerning mail routes between Danville, Va., and Greensboro, N.C., and a photocopy of a letter from the donor.
Folder 16 |
Unit 16 |
Unknown
Photocopy of a printed edition of the diary of Aaron T. Hess (1840-1922) covering the period from 1862 to 1863, while Hess served with the Wise Artillery, Confederate States Army.
Folder 17 |
Unit 17 |
Unknown.
Collection of photographs of maps showing key cities, towns, rail lines, and engagements mostly concerned with the Virginia Theater.
Folder 18 |
Unit 18 |
Received from Cohasco, Inc.
Two letters from J. D. Miller in Prison 3, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, to his uncle Edwin G. Booth in Philadelphia. One letter is dated 6 October 1864 and the other is undated.
Folder 19 |
Unit 19 |
Unknown.
Letter, 21 June 1863, from soldier Neill Baker at a camp near Greenville, N.C., to his wife in Fayetteville. With transcript.
Folder 20 |
Unit 20 |
Received from Patti M. McIntyre.
Letter, 24 December 1864, from a soldier named John at the Headquarters of Company K, 2nd North Carolina Cavalry, to his sister, in which he describes harsh weather conditions and his general ill health.
Folder 21 |
Unit 21 |
Received from Winston Broadfoot of Chapel Hill.
Seven pages of description by a cadet [John Kershaw?] at the South Carolina Military Academy of his was experiences in 1864.
Folder 22 |
Unit 22 |
Received from James O. Casey, Clemson, S.C., and Mrs. Jack Fisher, Greenville, Tex.
Folder 23 |
Unit 23 |
Transfer from the Rare Book Collection.
Historical notes on the Great Seal of the Confederate States of America.
Folder 24 |
Unit 24 |
Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum, Valley Stream, N.Y.
Two letters, 1864, of Corporal Richard Butler of Company A, 1st North Carolina Artillery Regiment camped near Wilmington, N.C., about camp life, and photocopies of company muster rolls.
Folder 25 |
Unit 25 |
Received from William Y. Richard, Jr., of Chapel Hill, N.C.
Two items, a receipt dated 20 January 1862 addressed to William F. Loften of Union Mills, N.C., from the Adams Express Company, and a note dated 28 April 1862 from the Confederate States of America Subsistence Department in Richmond, Va.
Folder 26 |
Unit 26 |