Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

Photocopying is not permitted for Volume 1.

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 Beckwith Family Papers, #1267-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcriptions available of letters, 1863-1864.

Acquisitions Information

Donated by Mrs. Alexander R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga., 1947 and 1948; Alexander R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga., 1952.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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, October 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.

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.

• Beckwith family.
• Beckwith, Elizabeth, 1862-1945.
• Beckwith, Ella Brockenbrough, 1837-1887.
• Beckwith, John W. (John Watrous), 1831-1890.
• Brockenbrough family.
• Clergy--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Chaplains.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Episcopal Church--Bishops--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

• Edmund Ruffin Beckwith Papers (#3365).

John W. Beckwith (1831-1890) was a Confederate chaplain and Episcopal priest in North Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. He was married to Ella Brockenbrough Beckwith and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Beckwith.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence of the family of John W. Beckwith (1831-1890), Episcopal priest in North Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and bishop of Georgia. The collection contains Civil War letters from Virginia relatives of Beckwith's wife, Ella Brockenbrough Beckwith; scattered papers of Beckwith as a Confederate chaplain and a volunteer aide to General William Joseph Hardee; and personal correspondence in the 1880s of Beckwith's daughter Elizabeth.

• Photographs (PF-1267/1)
• Oversize papers (OPF-1267/1)