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Size | About 10 items |
Abstract | Monroe F. Cockrell (born 1884) of Chicago, Ill., was a writer on historical topics. The collection includes miscellaneous papers including maps of the military campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest, including the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 1864, and the Battle of Corinth, Miss., 1862, compiled by Monroe F. Cockrell in the 1940s; a chart of the descendants of Andrew Cockrell; articles on Chapel Hill College of Missouri; information about the burial places of generals killed in the Battle of Franklin; and historical articles, presumably unpublished, by Cockrell, on the Confederacy, specifically concerning Major Wilmer McLean, McLean's homes at Appomattox and Bull Run, Va., P. G. T. Beauregard, and other topics (articles written 1952, 1959, 1963, and distributed by the author in 1964). |
Creator | Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), b. 1884. |
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
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010
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.
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Monroe Fulkerson Cockrell (born 1884) of Chicago, Ill., was a writer on historical topics.
Back to TopThe collection includes miscellaneous papers including maps of the military campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest, including the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 1864, and the Battle of Corinth, Miss., 1862, compiled by Monroe F. Cockrell in the 1940s; a chart of the descendants of Andrew Cockrell; articles on Chapel Hill College of Missouri; information about the burial places of generals killed in the Battle of Franklin; and historical articles, presumably unpublished, by Cockrell, on the Confederacy, specifically concerning Major Wilmer McLean, McLean's homes at Appomattox and Bull Run, Va., P. G. T. Beauregard, and other topics (articles written 1952, 1959, 1963, and distributed by the author in 1964).
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Original finding aid |
Papers, 1941-1963 |
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Extra Oversize Paper Folder X-OPF-1145/1 |
Maps |