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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Henry A. Chambers Papers, #2260, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Z. C. Patton of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1940 and 1952.

Addition received from Carolyn Harmon Parker of Statesville, N.C., November 1993 (Acc. 93140).

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.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, August 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.

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• Chambers family.
• Chambers, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1841-1925.
• Chattanooga (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 49th.
• Estates (Law)--Southern States.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Freemasons--Tennessee--History.
• Historians--Tennessee--History.
• Lawyers--Tennessee--History.
• Legislators--Tennessee.
• Loudon (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Madisonville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Postal service--Tennessee--History.
• Schools--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Tennessee. General Assembly. House of Representatives--History.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.
• United States. Post Office Dept.--Officials and employees--History.

• Chambers family papers (#2828).

Henry A. (Henry Alexander) Chambers (1841-1925), native of Iredell County, N.C., was a lawyer, historian, statistician, legislator, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and United States Post Office agent in Tennessee. During the Civil War, Chambers was a captain with the 49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.

Chambers was married first to Laura Lenoir (fl. 1877-1891) and later to Lizzie Welcker Turner.

The collection includes the diary, correspondence, speeches, and business papers of Henry A. Chambers. The diary, 1863-1865, written while Chambers was a captain with the 49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment contains entries describing troop movements and camp life as well as some battles and news relating to other military engagements. Later diaries, 1870-1873, 1877-1887, and 1895-1924, written from Madisonville, Loudon, and Chattanooga, Tenn., concern his law practice, his public life as a member of the Tennessee legislature, his duties as investigator for the United States Post Office Department, his social and domestic life, and Masonic and Confederate veterans' affairs.

Also included in the collection are personal and household accounts; a memorandum, 1877, concerning a state legislative committee on common schools; personal and family letters received; bills and receipts; a muster roll of and correspondence about Company C, 49th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America; family history materials; and estate papers.