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[Identification of item], in the Hilary A. Herbert Papers, #2481, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• Alabama--Biography.
• Antislavery movements--United States.
• Children--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Children--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• College students--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 8th.
• Diaries.
• Europe--Description and travel.
• Greenville (Ala.)--Social life and customs.
• Herbert family.
• Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919.
• Laurens (S.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Lawyers--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--Washington (D.C.)
• Micou, Ella Herbert.
• South Carolina--Biography.
• Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.
• United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921.
• United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.
• United States--Race relations.
• United States. Navy Dept.--Officials and employees--History--19th century.
• University of Alabama--Students--History--19th century.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.

• Josiah Gorgas Papers (#279-z)

Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897.

The collection includes Herbert's correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including many national politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904, Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a "History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.," written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and general articles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917 covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, and his political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scattered papers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C.

• Oversize volume (SV-2481/12)
• Microfilm (M-2481/1-2)