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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John K. Baldwin Diary, #1611, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription available (343 pages).

Acquisitions Information

Received from Anna Pearl Buie of Bladenboro, N.C., June 1949.

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, January 2009

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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• Baldwin, John K., b. 1845.
• Blacksmiths--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Bladen County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Carpenters--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 36th.
• Diaries.
• Mechanics (Persons)--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Sawmills--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

John K. Baldwin (b. 1845) was a skilled laborer of Bladen County, N.C. He served in the 36th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate Army, primarily in eastern North Carolina. After the war he worked for the Bladen Land Company which ran two sawmills. He later ran a grist mill and built a shop where he worked as a blacksmith, carpenter, and machinist. He was married to Susan C. Cain.

The collection includes the diary, 1867-1878, of John K. Baldwin. Brief daily entries concern work activities, money spent for supplies and received for work completed, church attendance, and other matters. The diary begins with an autobiographical statement focusing on Baldwin's service with the 36th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War.