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[Identification of item], in the Nathaniel Harrison Harris Papers, #1297-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

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• Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 19th.
• Harris, J. W. M.
• Harris, Nathaniel Harrison, 1834-1900.
• Harris, R. E., fl. 1865.
• Harris, W. M.
• Lewis, Charles J., fl. 1899.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Death and burial.
• Natchez (Miss.)--History.
• Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.

Nathaniel Harrison Harris (1834-1900) was born in Natchez, Miss., studied law at the University of Louisiana, and practiced law in Vicksburg, Miss. Harris was captain of Company C of the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America. He became Brigadier General in 1864. Harris resumed his law practice after the Civil War ended, and was later president of a railroad.

The collection contains two letters and, on microfilm, two pamphlets. One letter, 23 April 1865, from R. E. Harris, a Union soldier, to his mother, describes the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the search for John Wilkes Booth; the other, 22 March 1899, from N. H. Harris in London to Captain Charles J. Lewis, New Orleans, comments on and corrects Lewis's recent article, "The Gallant Charge of Harris's Brigade at the Wilderness." The two pamphlets are J. W. M. Harris, "The Lesson Which Natchez Teaches her Sons"; and an address, 1884, and extracts from the diary of General N. H. Harris, published by his son, W. M. Harris, 1901.

• Microfilm (M-1297/1)