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Size | About 50 items |
Abstract | George Washington Rains was a United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of Craven County, N.C. The collection contains papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the United States and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains. |
Creator | Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898. |
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: 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.
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George Washington Rains was a United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of Craven County, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection contains papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the United States and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Biographical data |
Folder 2 |
1843-1864 |
Folder 3 |
1879-1949 |
Folder 4 |
Undated |
Image Folder PF-1510/1 |
Pictures of scenes in Augusta, Ga., cut out of magazines, undated |
Reel M-1510/1 |
Microfilm |