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Size | 2 items |
Abstract | Burwell Boykin Lewis was a Confederate officer from Alabama. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the United States Congress, and as president of the University of Alabama. The collection is a typed transcription of a letter, 1862, from Lewis, written from Camp Lee (near Pollard, Ala.), to his wife, concerning the capture of a Union spy, B. Colvin, in Florida, and other matters; and a seventeen-page biographical sketch of Lewis, written by his daughter, Caroline Lewis Montgomery. |
Creator | Lewis, Burwell Boykin, 1838-1885. |
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: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2011
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Burwell Boykin Lewis was a Confederate officer from Alabama. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the United States Congress, and as president of the University of Alabama.
Back to TopThe collection is a typed transcription of a letter, 1862, from Lewis, written from Camp Lee (near Pollard, Ala.), to his wife, concerning the capture of a Union spy, B. Colvin, in Florida, and other matters; and a seventeen-page biographical sketch of Lewis, written by his daughter, Caroline Lewis Montgomery.
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Papers, 1862 and undated |