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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 Confederate Sketches, #173-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift prior to 1957; Additions, 1957, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2011

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Confederate States of America--Biography.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 35th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 59th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 67th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 3rd.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
• Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870.
• Meadow Hill (Pender County, N.C.)
• Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Pender County (N.C.)--History.
• Plantation life--North Carolina.
• Plantations--North Carolina.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.

The collection contains speeches to Confederate veterans' groups, recollections of North Carolina and Virginia soldiers and civilians, and biographical sketches of Confederate generals and Civil War battlegrounds. Items include reminiscences of Confederate soldiers in the 3rd Virginia Volunteers, and the 35th, 59th, and the 67th North Carolina Regiments, describing camp life, troop movements, and battles; a description of an expedition from Marion, N.C., to the coast during the Civil War, using slaves and equipment to obtain salt from seawater; reminiscences of family life, slaves, household work, cooking and dyeing, on Meadow Hill plantation in New Hanover (now Pender) County, N.C.; and several addresses on Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864).