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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | Harry St. John Dixon (1843-1898) was a native of Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia, 1860-1861, served as a Confederate officer with the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Virginia, and, after the war, he was a lawyer and rancher in California. The collection contains the personal correspondence and diaries of Dixon, chiefly correspondence between Dixon and his parents while he was a university student, a Confederate officer, and in California. His parents lived near Greenville, Miss., and, during part of the Civil War, in Demopolis, Ala. Correspondence concerns family affairs, domestic slaves, experiences at the University of Virginia, effects of the war in Mississippi, Dixon's war experiences, and other matters. Also included is Dixon's diary, 1858-1865, kept while he was at Greenville, at the University of Virginia, and during the war. Among other items are letters, 1868-1869, to Dixon's wife, Constance Maynard Dixon, from her grandfather, Duff Green (1791-1875); letters from Dixon's friend, Henry Ewing, Confederate officer in Tennessee and newspaperman in Saint Louis; and photographs of fellow soldiers and students and of others. |
Creator | Dixon, Harry St. John, 1843-1898. |
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: Kate Jordan, April 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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Harry St. John Dixon (1843-1898) was a native of Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia, 1860-1861, served as a Confederate officer with the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Virginia, and, after the war, he was a lawyer and rancher in California.
Back to TopThe collection contains the personal correspondence and diaries of Dixon, chiefly correspondence between Dixon and his parents while he was a university student, a Confederate officer, and in California. His parents lived near Greenville, Miss., and, during part of the Civil War, in Demopolis, Ala. Correspondence concerns family affairs, domestic slaves, experiences at the University of Virginia, effects of the war in Mississippi, Dixon's war experiences, and other matters. Also included is Dixon's diary, 1858-1865, kept while he was at Greenville, at the University of Virginia, and during the war. Among other items are letters, 1868-1869, to Dixon's wife, Constance Maynard Dixon, from her grandfather, Duff Green (1791-1875); letters from Dixon's friend, Henry Ewing, Confederate officer in Tennessee and newspaperman in Saint Louis; and photographs of fellow soldiers and students and of others.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid material |
Folder 1 |
1855-1859 |
Folder 2 |
1860 |
Folder 3 |
1861 |
Folder 4 |
1862 |
Folder 5 |
1864-1869 |
Folder 6 |
1870-1875 |
Folder 7 |
1876-1907 |
Folder 8 |
1857-1861 |
Folder 9 |
1862-1865 |
Folder 10 |
1869-1876 |
Folder 11 |
1877-1880; 1885 |
Folder 12 |
Journal, 1858-1859 |
Folder 13 |
Journal, 1860 |
Folder 14 |
Journal, 1860-1861 |
Folder 15 |
Journal, 1861-1881 |
Folder 16 |
War diary, 1862-1863 |
Folder 17 |
War diary, 1863 |
Folder 18 |
War diary, September 1863-December 1863 |
Folder 19 |
War diary, 1864 |
Folder 20 |
War diary, April 1864-November 1964 |
Folder 21 |
War diary, November 1864-February 1865 |
Folder 22 |
War diary, May 1865 |
Folder 23 |
Journal, 1865 and undatedIncludes sections from the Sigma Chi Quarterly containing biographical notes on Dixon, 1897-1898, and Dixon's "Recollections of a Rebel Private," published in 1886-1887. |
Image Folder PF-2375/1 |
P-2375/1-17: Portraits of family members and friendsIncludes several of Laura Green Reed, Dixon's University of Virginia friends, and a woman identified only as "Mammy Lucy." All but one are cartes-de-visite. |
Image Folder PF-2375/2 |
P-2375/18-34: Cartes-de-visite of family friends and Confederate soldiers |
Image Folder PF-2375/3 |
P-2375/35-45: Miscellaneous picturesIncludes cartes-de-visite portraits of various people, drawings, and a photograph of a painting by Constance Maynard Dixon depicting Harry St. John Dixon. |
Reel M-2375/1-2
M-2375/1M-2375/2 |
Microfilm |