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 George William Logan Papers #1560, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 2006) available.

• Reel 1: Volumes 1-4 (folders 51-54)

Acquisitions Information

Received from Logan Pratt of Atlanta, Ga., in December 1948.

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.

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.

• Confederate States of America. Army--African Americans.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Artillery.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Medical care.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military construction operations.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Records and correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion, 2nd.
• Fort Beauregard (La.)
• Logan, George William, 1828-1896.
• Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Slavery--Confederate States of America.

• Thomas Muldrup Logan Papers (#2388)

George William Logan (1828-1896) was born in Charleston, S.C., to George William Logan and Anna d'Oyley Glover Logan. In 1849, he moved to New Orleans, La., and, in 1853, he married Marie Telide Soniat du Fossat. Logan, a businessman before and after the Civil War, had interests in the cotton brokerage and exporting firm Logan, Smith, and Claiborne. During the war, he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army, commanding a battalion of heavy artillery in Louisiana from 1862 to 1865. The greater part of his service was in the District of Western Louisiana in defense of Fort Beauregard at Harrisonburg on the Ouachita River, near the point where the Ouachita joins the Black River. In September 1863, Logan was ordered to Vienna, La., and, in April 1864, he joined General Kirby Smith in the defense of Shreveport. In March 1865, Logan assumed command at Fort Gallagher near Natchitoches in March 1865 and was paroled in May 1865.

The collection consists of Lieutenant Colonel George William Logan's records, chiefly 1862-1865, of the daily transaction of military business and command of the 2nd Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion, in western Louisiana, particularly at Fort Beauregard on the Ouachita River, during the Civil War. Papers include letter books of Logan's outgoing correspondence; daily, weekly, and monthly reports from the company captains in Logan's battalion; ordnance reports; orders received and sent; petitions for transfer; medical reports; communications from civilians and officers in the field; items concerning conscripts and deserters; and papers relating to construction work and use of local slave labor. Also included is a volume with records of enlistment, supplies, deaths, desertions, and other information.