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| Size | 8.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
| Abstract | Edward O. (Edward Owings) Guerrant (1838-1916) was a Confederate Army officer, physician at Mt. Sterling, Ky., Presbyterian missionary, and editor of The Soul Winner. The collection contains the diary and other papers of Edward O. Guerrant. The diary was kept for the majority of Guerrant's life, with some gaps. It reflects Guerrant's experiences as a student at Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1856-1860; staff officer to several Confederate generals in campaigns in eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia and in the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865; medical student and practicing physician at Mt. Sterling, Ky., 1867-1873; seminarian at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, 1873-1876; Presbyterian minster at several locations, including Louisville, Ky., 1876-1885; and founder and president of the American Inland Mission or "Soul Winners Society" and editor of The Soul Winner, at Wilmore and Troy, Ky. Among other items are scattered correspondence, 1862-1917, and Guerrant's manuscript history of Kentucky soldiers in the Confederacy |
| Creator | Guerrant, Edward O. (Edward Owings), 1838-1916. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding and Jodi Berkowitz, February 2011; Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021
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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Biographical Information
Edward O. Guerrant (1838-1916) was a Confederate Army officer, physician at Mt. Sterling, Ky., Presbyterian missionary, and editor of The Soul Winner.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains the diary and other papers of Edward O. Guerrant (1838-1916). The diary was kept for the majority of Guerrant's life, with some gaps. It reflects Guerrant's experiences as a student at Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1856-1860; staff officer to several Confederate generals in campaigns in eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia and in the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1865; medical student and practicing physician at Mt. Sterling, Ky., 1867-1873; seminarian at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, 1873-1876; Presbyterian minster at several locations, including Louisville, Ky., 1876-1885; and founder and president of the American Inland Mission or "Soul Winners Society" and editor of The Soul Winner, at Wilmore and Troy, Ky. Among other items are scattered correspondence, 1862-1917, and Guerrant's manuscript history of Kentucky soldiers in the Confederacy.
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Edward O. Guerrant Papers, 1856-1917.
Arrangement: chronological.
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