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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 850 items) |
Abstract | Josiah Turner was a lawyer of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.; antebellum Whig politician; anti-secession Confederate officer; anti-Davis member of the Confederate Congress; and, during Reconstruction, a leading Conservative spokesman as editor of the Raleigh Sentinel. The collection is mostly family correspondence, 1859-1894, including Turner's letters to his wife, Sophia Devereux Turner, while he was a Confederate officer in eastern North Carolina, up to 1863; in the Confederate Congress, 1863-1865; and in Washington, D.C., seeking to be seated as a United States Representative, 1866. Other family correspondence is of Sophia Devereux Turner, her Devereux relatives, and the Turner children, chiefly 1859-1894. There is a smaller amount of political correspondence, including some relating to Turner's opposition to Republican Governor W. W. Holden and his expulsion from the North Carolina state legislature in 1880, as well as information concerning Confederate politics, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and the Ku-Klux Klan. Also included are speeches, clippings, bills and receipts, a small amount of printed material, a law journal, and a personal account book. |
Creator | Turner, Josiah, 1821-1901. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Ellen Strong, 1964, and Suzanne Ruffing, March 1996
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2005
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, November 2009
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid and microfilming of this collection.
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Josiah Turner (1821-1901) was a lawyer of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.; antebellum Whig politician; anti-secession Confederate officer; anti-Davis member of the Confederate Congress; and, during Reconstruction, a leading Conservative spokesman as editor of the Raleigh Sentinel. Turner married Sophie Devereux, daughter of Thomas Pollack Devereux, in 1856, and with her had four sons and a daughter.
Back to TopThe collection is mostly family correspondence, 1859-1894, of Josiah Turner and his wife, Sophia Devereux Turner during and after the Civil War, while he was a Confederate officer in eastern North Carolina, up to 1863; in the Confederate Congress, 1863-1865; and in Washington, D.C., seeking to be seated as a United States Representative, 1866. Other family correspondence is of Sophia Devereux Turner, her Devereux relatives, and the Turner children, chiefly 1859-1894. There is a smaller amount of political correspondence, including some relating to Turner's opposition to Republican Governor W. W. Holden and his expulsion from the North Carolina state legislature in 1880, as well as information concerning Confederate politics, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and the Ku-Klux Klan. Also included are speeches, clippings, bills and receipts, a small amount of printed material, a law journal, and a personal account book.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Correspondence, speeches, clippings, bills and receipts, and a small amount of printed material of Josiah Turner, Sophie Devereux Turner, and their children. There are eight folders of manuscript fragments, many of which appear to be speeches, editorials, and other writings.
Folder 1 |
1805-1859 |
Folder 2 |
1860-1863 |
Folder 3 |
1864-1867 |
Folder 4 |
1868-1870 |
Folder 5 |
1871-1877 |
Folder 6 |
1878-1880 |
Folder 7 |
1881-1889 |
Folder 8 |
1890-1894 |
Folder 9 |
1895-1923 |
Folder 10 |
Undated: Josiah Turner and Sophie Devereux Turner correspondence |
Folder 11 |
Undated: Family and other correspondence |
Folder 12 |
Undated: Correspondence fragments |
Folder 13 |
Undated: Speeches |
Folder 14-16
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16 |
Undated: Miscellaneous papers |
Folder 17-24
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24 |
Undated: Fragments |
Folder 25 |
Newspaper clippings |
Folder 26 |
Bills and reciepts |
Folder 27 |
Volume 1: Law journal, 1845 (101 pages) |
Folder 28 |
Volume 2: Account book, 1818-1853 (47 pages) |
Reel M-730/1 |
Microfilm |