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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Thomas Pugh Papers, #1590, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mabel Pugh of Raleigh, N.C., 1949-1973.

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009

Updated by: Laura Hart, July 2021

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.

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• Alamance County (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Classical education--Massachusetts--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Non-commissioned officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Cavalry.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 1st.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Harvard University--Students--Social life and customs.
• Latin language--Study and teaching--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--Massachusetts--History.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Morrisville (N.C.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Pugh family.
• Pugh, Edward C.
• Pugh, James Monroe, b. 1826.
• Pugh, James Thomas, 1873-1942.
• Pugh, Mabel Vaughan.
• Pugh, Roger Vaughan.
• Pugh, Sallie Keck.
• Teachers--Ohio--History--19th century.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

James Thomas Pugh (1873-1942) of North Carolina was the son of Sallie Keck Pugh and James Monroe Pugh (born 1826), a Confederate officer and storekeeper. James Thomas was a student and Latin instructor at the University of North Carolina, 1890-1894; a classics student at Harvard, 1895-1897; a teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, 1896-1897; and lawyer in Boston after 1897. He was married to Mabel Vaughan Pugh. Their children were Edward C. and Roger Vaughan Pugh.

Chiefly family correspondence and storekeeping records of a North Carolina family in the 19th century. The collection includes accounts of dealings in merchandise by James Monroe Pugh, 1850s and late 1865, at various places in North Carolina, particularly in Alamance County. Civil War items include letters to Sallie Keck from her brother James Keck with the 6th North Carolina Regiment and from her future husband, James Monroe Pugh, as a sergeant in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment serving in Virginia. There are also records kept by James Monroe relating to cavalry horses and forage. The bulk of the papers consists of family letters and store records of James Monroe Pugh and his wife, Sallie Keck Pugh, at Morrisville, Wake County, N.C., 1868-1910. Family letters relate primarily to everyday life and interests, but include letters from James Thomas Pugh as a student at various institutions and while a teacher in Ohio and lawyer in Boston, Mass. There is also a group of letters, 1910-1973, from family members received by James Thomas Pugh's sister, Mabel Pugh, at Morrisville and at Peace College in Raleigh, N.C., and family correspondence of James Thomas Pugh's wife, Mabel Vaughan Pugh, and his sons, Edward C. and Roger Vaughan Pugh. Also included are scholastic writings of James Thomas Pugh produced during his studies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University.

• Oversize volume (SV-1590/1)