Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 S.H. Walkup Papers, #1401, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription of diary available.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts 1947 and 1950.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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: Kathryn Michaelis, November 2010

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.

• Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
• Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 48th.
• Diaries.
• Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
• Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Walkup, S. H. (Samuel Hoey), 1818-1876.

• Samuel H. Walkup journal (typescript), Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

The collection contains miscellaneous papers, including the Civil War diary of S.H. Walkup while stationed in Virginia and eastern North Carolina; and letters written home from the front. The diary describes the formation of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment and its participation in the Peninsula Campaign, the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and the siege of Petersburg.