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| Size | 18.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10,000 items) |
| Abstract | The collection documents several generations of the white Battle family of Louisburg, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, N.C., as well as enslaved people who were claimed in ownership by the Battles or were trafficked to them through hiring of their labor, skills, and knowledge. Early Battle family papers, especially letters of Lucy Martin Plummer Battle (1805-1874), concern many aspects of North Carolina history, including white family relationships with enslaved people and their forced labor, life on the Confederate homefront, and social conditions and race relations during Reconstruction. Letters of William Horn Battle (1802-1879) also describe a wide spectrum of people and events while he served on the North Carolina Supreme Court and traveled primarily to Raleigh and Morganton. There are also materials relating to the Episcopal Church, in which the Battles were active lay members; the Chatham County Railroad; and the University of North Carolina. Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) materials include papers relating to his interest in the early history of North Carolina and of the University of North Carolina; his notes on the secret sessions of the North Carolina convention of 1861; clippings, notes, and drafts of his articles and speeches; a facsimile of his journal while he lived in Chapel Hill and worked as a tutor and studied for the Bar exam, 1851-1853; and correspondence of his family, including his wife Martha Ann Battle and their children. There are also many letters from Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), who was related to the Battle family through marriage. Papers of William James Battle (1870-1955), professor of classics and university administrator at Texas and Cincinnati, document family, family history, and personal affairs, but do not include many items relating to his professional career. Volumes are chiefly student notes and personal accounts kept by William James Battle, 1885-1909. There are also images of Battle family members and others. |
| Creator | Battle (Family : Battle, William H. (William Horn), 1802-1879) |
| Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996
Encoded by: Peter Hymas, October 2004
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Revisions: Finding aid updated in August 2005 by Linda Sellars; in December 2018 by Nancy Kaiser; in December 2021 by Dawne Howard Lucas.
Conscious editing by Nancy Kaiser, September 2023: Updated abstract, subject headings, collection overview, contents list.
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
The Addition of 2005 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials. In the addition, Series 5A has been added to hold professional papers of Kemp Plummer Battle.
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.
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Biographical Information
William Horn Battle (1802-1879) lived near Louisburg, N.C., until late 1839, when he moved to Raleigh. In 1843, he moved to Chapel Hill and remained there until the closing of the University of North Carolina in 1868, when he went to Raleigh to live with his sons. Battle served as a Superior Court judge in 1840 and as a Supreme Court judge, 1852-1865. He was a Whig in politics and represented Franklin County in the House of Commons, 1833-1834. Battle was a professor of law at the University of North Carolina. The connection of the Law School with the University was nominal at the time, but Battle, as a well-known trustee, father of several University students, and close friend of University President David L. Swain, was quite active in University affairs.
William Horn Battle married Lucy Martin Plummer (1805-1874), daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family in Warren County, N.C. Their son, Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), married his cousin, Martha Ann Battle (Pattie). Kemp Plummer Battle studied at the University of North Carolina, then remained there as a tutor for several years after graduation, studying law at the same time. When he secured his law license, he began to practice in Raleigh and soon thereafter married Pattie. They lived in Raleigh for 20 years. During this time, Kemp Plummer Battle practiced law and participated in public affairs as a member of the Convention of 1861; state treasurer, 1866-1868; and as an active member of the Whig Party before the American Civil War, and, after the war, as a moderate conservative, and later Democrat. He was president of the Chatham Railroad and had interests in real estate ventures through the Southern Land Agency and Battle, Heck, and Company. Kemp Plummer Battle was active in the re-opening of the University of North Carolina. In 1876, he was elected president of the University and, in 1877, moved to Chapel Hill to begin work. He remained president until 1891, when he resigned to become professor of history, a post he held until his retirement in 1907.
William James Battle (1870-1955), youngest son of Kemp Plummer Battle, was born in Raleigh and lived in Chapel Hill after his father became president of the University of North Carolina. He was graduated from the University in 1888 and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. In 1889-1890, he was an instructor of Latin at the University of North Carolina. In 1893, he taught briefly at the University of Chicago, then moved to the University of Texas, where he served until 1917 as associate professor and professor of Greek, dean of the College of Arts (and later of the faculty) and as acting president. In 1917, William James Battle joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, where he stayed until 1920 when he returned to Texas as professor of classical languages. He lived in Austin until his death in 1955. He was co-author of The Battle Book with Herbert B. Battle and Lois Yelverton.
Laura Caroline Battle Phillips (1824-1919) was the youngest child of Joel Battle and his wife Mary "Pretty Polly" Johnston Battle and the grandchild of William Horn Battle and Lucy Martin Plummer Battle. Laura Battle was married to Professor Charles Phillips on 8 December 1847 at the Battle home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Their children included sons William and Alexander and daughters Mary and Lucy. Charles Phillips (1822-1889) was the son of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips of Chapel Hill, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1841; a tutor, 1844-1854; professor of mathematics, 1854-1868 and 1875-1879; and professor emeritus, 1879-1889. He taught at Davidson College, 1868-1874. Charles Phillips's sister, Cornelia Phillips (1825-1908), married James Munroe Spencer in 1855 and went with him to Alabama. At his death in 1861, she and her daughter Julia James "June" Spencer came back to Chapel Hill. During her last years, she lived in Cambridge, Mass., with her daughter and son-in-law, June and James Lee Love, and their children, Cornelia and James Spencer Love.
William Horn Battle, Kemp Plummer Battle, and Mary P. Battle are all documented as enslavers in this collection. Enslaved people who appear in this collection include both individuals who were claimed in ownership by members of the Battle family and others who were trafficked to the Battles through the hiring of their labor, skills, and knowledge. Below is a list of enslaved individuals who have been discovered and identified in the collection as of October 2023. Unless otherwise indicated, individuals were claimed in ownership by William Horn Battle. There also may be additional individuals in this collection who have not yet been discovered and identified by name in this finding aid.
Below is a genealogical chart including most white Battle family members who appear in the collection. The children of James Smith Battle and Sallie Harriet Westray Battle and of Kemp Plummer and Susan Martin Plummer are not listed in chronological order by date of birth. Some Plummer family information is also included.
Plummer Family
For further information, see The Battle Book and Kemp Plummer Battle's Memories of an Old-Time Tar Heel .
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Scope and Content
Series 1. Battle Family Papers give detailed coverage of the life of William Horn Battle (1802-1879) and Lucy Martin Plummer Battle (1805-1874) and three generations of their family, as well as enslaved people who were claimed in ownership by the Battles or were trafficked to them through hiring of their labor, skills, and knowledge. Many aspects of North Carolina history are documented, including white family relationships with enslaved people, especially with regard to their health and their forced labor; life on the Confederate homefront; and social conditions during Reconstruction. Letters of William Horn Battle (1802-1879) also describe a wide spectrum of people and events while he served on the North Carolina Supreme Court and traveled primarily to Raleigh and Morganton. There are also materials relating to the Episcopal Church, in which the Battles were active lay members, and Chatham County Railroad items. Papers of Kemp Plummer Battle relate to his interest in the early history of North Carolina and of the University of North Carolina. Papers of William James Battle document family and personal affairs. They are especially rich in Battle family history, but do not include many items relating to his professional career.
Series 2. William James Battle Papers are chiefly student notes and personal accounts kept by William James Battle, 1885-1909.
NOTE: Series 1 and Series 2 are maintained as separate accessions based on restrictions that, at one time, covered materials in Series 2. Series 1 consists of papers focusing primarily on William Horn Battle and his son, Kemp Plummer Battle. Series 2 contains papers of William James Battle, son of Kemp Plummer Battle, that were restricted until 15 years after his death. Because both series include material for 1875-1919, researchers interested in this time period should consult both series for items of potential interest.
Series 1A. Battle Family Papers (addition of 2005) contains correspondence and other papers of Battle family members, mostly Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), but also his wife Martha Ann (Pattie) Battle (d. 1913), and their children, Cornelia Viola Battle Lewis (1857-1886), Kemp Plummer Battle Jr. (1859-1922), Thomas Hall Battle (1860-1936), and Herbert Bemerton Battle (1862-1929). Kemp Plummer Battle's other children appear less frequently in the correspondence. Many letters are from Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), whose brother Charles Phillips married Kemp Plummer Battle's aunt, Laura Caroline Battle. Professional papers of Kemp Plummer Battle include his notes and drafts of articles and speeches, clippings of articles by or about Kemp Plummer Battle, and a few other items.
Series 3. Volumes belonged to William James Battle and consist chiefly of school notebooks from his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina.
Series 4. and 4A. Pictures (original deposit and addition of 2005) consist chiefly of images of the Battle family and others.
Series 5A. Kemp Plummer Battle Papers (additions of 2005, 2007, 2015, and 2018) consist of his professional papers, including his notes from the secret sessions of the North Carolina convention of 1861, notes and drafts of his articles and speeches, clippings of articles by or about him, writings by others, a scrapbook of portrait etchings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary and political figures, a bound facsimile of the journal he kept from 1851-1853 when he lived in Chapel Hill and worked at the university as a tutor while studying for the Bar, a Book of Common Prayer (1850) he owned, with handwritten notes on sermons, 1856-1867, and a few other items.
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Series 1. Battle Family Papers, 1765-1919.
Processing note: See also Addition of 2005.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence and other papers offering detailed documentation of the life of William Horn Battle, Lucy Martin Plummer Battle, and three generations of their family, as well as the people they claimed in property, and other enslaved people who were trafficked to them through the hiring of their labor, skills, and knowledge. Letters of Lucy Martin Plummer Battle and family when William Horn Battle was away on the judicial circuit give a full account of events in Chapel Hill, N.C., as well as details of home life. Lucy Martin Plummer Battle's letters are also a rich source of information about the health and conditions of forced labor for the people enslaved by them, and other enslaved people in Raleigh and Chapel Hill communities. William Horn Battle's letters, written as he traveled around North Carolina, often respond to news at home and also describe a wide spectrum of people and events. When he served on the North Carolina Supreme Court, he traveled primarily to Raleigh and Morganton, where a western session of the Court was held. During these years, Battle was also professor of law at the University of North Carolina. Beginning in 1843, there is a great deal of material on the University scattered through the papers.
After Battle's marriage to Lucy Martin Plummer, there are many references in the papers to the activities of her brothers and sisters, as well as to those of the many Battle family relatives. As the children grew older and married, the families of their wives or husbands are documented. This is especially true for Martha Ann Battle (Pattie), whose family, after her marriage to Kemp Plummer Battle, is represented fully in the papers. After William Horn Battle's death in 1879, materials tend to focus on Kemp Plummer Battle and his family.
Both William Horn Battle and Kemp Plummer Battle were active in the public affairs of North Carolina and in the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the papers include correspondence with important political, civic, and church leaders. Also of interest is an article by Kemp P. Battle on the Chatham County Railroad, of which he was president (filed with miscellaneous material). The article includes biographical information and also discusses the railroad's organization at the beginning of the Civil War to provide access to the iron and coal mines of Chatham County.
Oversize papers consist of indentures for land in Edgecombe County, N.C., diplomas, certificates, a presidential pardon for Kemp Plummer Battle from President Andrew Johnson, and other materials.
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Battle family papers, 1765-18191789: unsigned letter sent from Edenton, possibly from Samuel Johnston, governor of North Carolina, to Brigadier General Martin, regarding a recent truce with the Cherokee. |
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Battle family papers, 1821-1829Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, 1830-1835Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, 1836-1837 |
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Battle family papers, 1838-1839 |
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Battle family papers, 1840 |
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Battle family papers, 1841Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, 1842 |
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Battle family papers, 1843Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, 1844Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-August 1845Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, September-December 1845Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, 1846Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-June 1847Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, August-December 1847Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-April 1848Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, May-July 1848Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, August-December 1848Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-July 1849 |
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Battle family papers, August-December 1849 |
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Battle family papers, January-July 1850 |
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Battle family papers, August-December 1850Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-July 1851 |
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Battle family papers, August-October 1851 |
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Battle family papers, November-December 1851 |
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Battle family papers, January-September 1852 |
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Battle family papers, October-December 1852 |
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Battle family papers, January-June 1853 |
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Battle family papers, July-December 1853 |
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Battle family papers, January-May 1854Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, June-December 1854 |
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Battle family papers, January-July 1855Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, August-December 1855 |
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Battle family papers, January-June 1856Records of enslavement:
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| Folder 35 |
Battle family papers, July-December 1856 |
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Battle family papers, 1857Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-March 1858Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, April-December 1858 |
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Battle family papers, January-July 1859 |
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Battle family papers, August-December 1859 |
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Battle family papers, January-March 1860 |
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Battle family papers, April-August 1860 |
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Battle family papers, September-December 1860 |
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Battle family papers, January-August 1861Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, September-December 1861 |
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Battle family papers, January-September 1862 |
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Battle family papers, October-December 1862 |
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Battle family papers, January-August 1863 |
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Battle family papers, September-December 1863Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, January-May 1864Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, June-September 1864 |
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Battle family papers, October-December 1864 |
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Battle family papers, January-March 1865Records of enslavement:
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Battle family papers, April-June 1865Records of Reconstruction:
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Battle family papers, July-September 1865Records of Reconstruction:
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Battle family papers, October-December 1865Records of Reconstruction:
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Battle family papers, January-April 1866Records of Reconstruction:
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Battle family papers, May 1866-April 18681866: pardon issued to a Union County man who had been convicted of and sentenced to hang for the rape of a woman. Folder 59: Records of Reconstruction:
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Battle family papers, May 1868-1876 |
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Battle family papers, 1877-1888 |
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Battle family papers, 1889-April 1902 |
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Battle family papers, May 1902-1919 |
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Battle family papers, Undated and miscellaneous |
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Battle family papers (oversize): 1762-187219 May 1762: indenture for land sold by Willam Gay of Edgecombe County to Elisha Battle. 20 November 1800: indenture for land owned by Isaac Battle and Joel Battle, Edgecombe County, N.C. Also includes diplomas, certificates, a presidential pardon to Kemp Plummer Battle from President Andrew Johnson, and other materials. |
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Series 1A. Battle Family Papers, 1842-1918 (Addition of 2005).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 100061
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence and a few other papers of Battle family members, mostly Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919), his wife Martha Ann (Pattie) Battle (d. 1913), and their children, Cornelia Viola Battle Lewis (1857-1886), Kemp Plummer Battle Jr. (1859-1922), Thomas Hall Battle (1860-1936), and Herbert Bemerton Battle (1862-1929). Kemp Plummer Battle's other children appear less frequently in the correspondence. Many letters are from Cornelia Phillips Spencer (1825-1908), whose brother Charles Phillips married Kemp Plummer Battle's aunt, Laura Caroline Battle.
The earliest items in the series are a poem, 1842, written by Cornelia Phillips to her father, Dr. James Phillips, and a poem, 1865, by Cornelia Phillips Spencer, to Elizabeth H. Swain on the occasion of "Gen. A's surrender." Other items from the 1860s are letters from Cornelia Phillips Spencer to Kemp Plummer Battle in 1866 and to Mrs. Battle in 1869, and letters from Charles Phillips and Cornelia Phillips Spencer to their brother Samuel Phillips. All discuss life in Chapel Hill in the first years after the Civil War.
Letters, 1871-1875, are chiefly to and from Kemp Plummer Battle Jr. at Bingham School in Asheville, N.C. Most are to or from his parents or siblings, with a few from friends or cousins. The few letters from the latter half of the 1870s are mostly from Cornelia Phillips Spencer. There is also a long letter, 25 February 1879, from J. R. Hutchins to Kemp Plummer Battle about men who donated land to the University of North Carolina.
After 1880, most letters are either family letters, including those from Cornelia Phillips Spencer, or letters to Kemp Plummer Battle about historical research. There are also a few letters to and from Kemp Plummer Battle Jr. and other Battle family connections.
Cornelia Phillips Spencer's letters occasionally mention events or issues at the University of North Carolina, but mostly relate news of family members or friends in Chapel Hill. Spencer moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1894 and lived with the family of her daughter, June Spencer Love, who was married to Harvard mathematics professor James Lee Love. After this time, her letters often report news of her grandchildren, Cornelia Love and James Spencer Love, as well as of her reading, visiting, and other activities. They also frequently mention Dr. J. Manning, Mrs. Welling, Margaret Mitchell, Laura Battle Phillips, Samuel Field Phillips, and Nora Phillips. A letter, 19 March 1906, relates Spencer's memories of the Union Army's entry into Chapel Hill in 1865.
Many letters to Kemp Plummer Battle appear to be responses to his requests for information about people or places in the history of North Carolina. Other letters are requests to him for information, especially about the history of the University of North Carolina, but also about other historical topics. In 1913, there are many letters complimenting Battle's book on the history of the University of North Carolina or ordering copies of it. Correspondents include Stephen B. Weeks, H. G. Connor, A. M. Waddell, Samuel A. Ashe, Archibald Henderson, and William B. Phillips.
Oversize papers consist of diplomas and certificates for Kemp Plummber Battle Jr. and architectural drawings of alterations and additions to Battle House for Dr. J. M. Booker, Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Series 2. William James Battle, 1876-1955.
Arrangement: chronological.
Chiefly personal papers, family correspondence, and genealogical material of William James Battle. These papers are almost entirely family correspondence, except for a few brief schoolboy items. From the time Battle entered Harvard University until the death of his father, there is much overlap in subject matter with Series 1. Included here are circular family letters. The Battles communicated amongst themselves with Kemp Plummer Battle circulating letters that William eventually collected. The more frequent correspondents include William James Battle's father, his brothers, especially Herbert Bremerton Battle and Thomas Hall Battle, and his nephews, especially Kemp Davis Battle, Hyman L. Battle, Ivey Foreman Lewis (professor of biology, University of Virginia), and Kemp Plummer Lewis. Scattered throughout the letters are references to the Rocky Mount Mills and the Erwin Mills, but there are few details about the companies and no records of their operations.
Except for references to William James Battle's work in family letters, there is little information on his career. There are many allusions to his difficulties in Texas during the gubernatorial administration of James Edward Ferguson, 1915-1917, and later during the administration of his wife, Miriam A. Wallace Ferguson ("Ma" Ferguson), 1925-1927. However, few details are given.
A major topic of these papers is The Battle Book, a family history compiled by Herbert B. Battle and completed after his death by William James Battle and Lois Yelverton. Many of the papers relate to information collected for this book or to the details of editing, publishing, and distributing it.
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William James Battle papers, 1876-1890 |
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William James Battle papers, 1891-April 1892 |
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William James Battle papers, May 1892-September 1893 |
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William James Battle papers, October 1893-August 1894 |
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William James Battle papers, September 1894-February 1896 |
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William James Battle papers, March 1896-October 1897 |
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William James Battle papers, November 1897-June 1899 |
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William James Battle papers, July 1899-1901 |
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William James Battle papers, 1902-November 1905 |
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William James Battle papers, December 1905-May 1907 |
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William James Battle papers, June 1907-May 1909 |
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William James Battle papers, June 1909-December 1911 |
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William James Battle papers, 1912-May 1915 |
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William James Battle papers, June 1915-May 1919 |
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William James Battle papers, June 1919-1926 |
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William James Battle papers, 1927-1930 |
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William James Battle papers, 1931-1934 |
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William James Battle papers, 1935-April 1943 |
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William James Battle papers, May 1943-1948 |
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William James Battle papers, 1949-1955 and undated |
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Series 3. Volumes, 1883-1909.
Manuscript volumes belonging to William James Battle and consisting chiefly of school notebooks from his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina.
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Volume 1, 1885192 pp. School notebook of notes taken by William James Battle in the chemistry class of Frank P. Venable at the University of North Carolina. |
| Folder 424 |
Volume 2, 1886237 pp. School notebook of notes taken by William James Battle in the chemistry class of Frank P. Venable at the University of North Carolina. |
| Folder 425 |
Volume 3, 1883-1893100 pp. Notebook with miscellaneous items by William James Battle. Included is "An Account of Consolidation of the Libraries [at the University of North Carolina] in June 1886"; charts of age, weight and height of young members of the Battle and Lewis families, 1880s and 1890s; and a miscellaneous bibliographic information. |
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Volume 4, 1892-1909150 pp. Personal account book of William James Battle from his time at Harvard, Chapel Hill, Chicago, and Austin. |
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Volume 5, ca. 188868 pp. School notebook of notes taken by William James Battle in a constitutional law class at the University of North Carolina. |
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Series 4. Pictures, 1855-1940s.
Processing note: See also 4A. Addition of 2005.
Photographs of Battle family members and others.
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Series 4A. Pictures (Addition of 2005).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 100061
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Picture of L. M. [Lucy Martin] Battle |
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Series 5A. Kemp Plummer Battle Papers, 1861-1921 (Addition of 2005).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 100061
Arrangement: by subject.
Professional papers of Kemp Plummer Battle include his notes from the secret sessions of the North Carolina convention of 1861, notes and drafts of his articles and speeches, clippings of articles by or about him, and a few other items.
Battle's notes on the secret sessions of the Convention of 1861 include dated notes from meetings between 28 May 1861 and April 1862. Some notes are not dated. Some are fragmentary. For each date, Battle summarized statements by various members of the convention, e.g., Graham of Orange, Ruffin, Winslow, Pettigrew, Johnston, Ashe, Osborne. Some topics include disposition of troops, sea coast defense, and actions of citizens of eastern North Carolina.
Notes and drafts of articles and speeches include research on North Carolina schools, North Carolina in 1802, Elisha Mitchell, and other topics
Clippings files include articles by Kemp Plummer Battle in The Woman Patriot, The Wachovia Moravian, The Churchman, the Raleigh News and Observer, the Asheville Daily Citizen, and many other newspapers, mostly on historical topics. Also included are reviews of Battle's History of the University of North Carolina and articles about Battle.
Writings by others are a history essay by J. F. Duncan; a handwritten copy of a review, 9 July 1857, of A Manual of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; with some of its Applications, by Charles Phillips, Professor of Civil Engineering in the University of North Carolina. Raleigh, printed by William D. Cooke, 1857; and a pamphlet, 1921, "A Plea to Physicians to Employ Active Immunization, and So prevents Deaths from Diphtheria, " Department of Health, City of New York.
Folder 466-467
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Notes: Convention of 1861, Secret Sessions |
Folder 468-470
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Research on North Carolina Schools |
| Folder 471 |
Biographical Sketches |
| Folder 472 |
History of the Great Seal and Coat of Arms of the State of North Carolina |
| Folder 473 |
Lords Proprietors |
| Folder 474 |
North Carolina in 1802 |
| Folder 475 |
Objections to Court of United States |
| Folder 476 |
Saint Paul |
| Folder 477 |
S.P.G. Missionaries |
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Drafts and notes |
Folder 487-489
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Notes and drafts of speeches |
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Clippings |
| Folder 496 |
Writings by Others |
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Series 5A. Kemp Plummer Battle Papers, circa 1850s-1870s (Addition of 2007).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 101116
Scrapbook of portrait etchings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary and political figures, circa 1850s-1870s.
| Oversize Volume SV-03223/1 |
Scrapbook, circa 1850s-1870s |
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Series 5A. Kemp Plummer Battle Papers, 1851-1853 (Addition of 2015).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 102341
A complete bound facsimile of the journal of Kemp Plummer Battle from 1851-1853. Battle graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1849, and the journal covers the period of his life immediately following his graduation, during which he remained in Chapel Hill and worked at the university as a tutor while studying for the Bar. The bound facsimile is a direct copy of the original and is not transcribed.
| Box 36 |
Journal, 1851-1853 |
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Series 5A. Kemp Plummer Battle Papers, 1856-1867 (Addition of 2018).
Acquisitions Information: Accession 103493
Book of Common Prayer (1850) owned by Kemp Plummer Battle, with handwritten notes on sermons, 1856-1867.
| Box 36 |
Book of Common Prayer (1850), 1856-1867 |
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Microfilm
Microfilm copy (filmed January 1968) available.
| Reel M-3223/1 |
1765-1850 |
| Reel M-3223/2 |
1851-1859 |
| Reel M-3223/3 |
1860-September 1865 |
| Reel M-3223/4 |
October 1865-23 May 1871 |
| Reel M-3223/5 |
25 May 1871-1875 |
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