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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Stephen Chaulker Bartlett Papers, #3339-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by Stephen Russell Bartlett Junior of Greenville, N.C., February 1958.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bartlett, Julia Bilden Pickett.
• Bartlett, Stephen Chaulker, 1839-1879.
• Bartlett, Stephen Russell, 1877-1953.
• Military pensions--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
• United States. Navy--Medical care.
• United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Navy--Surgeons.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.

Stephen Chaulker Bartlett (1839-1879) of North Guilford, Conn., was a medical student at Yale University and at United States government hospitals during the first part of the Civil War. He received a commission as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy and was assigned to the steamer Lenapee in 1865, which sailed from New York harbor to join the fleet blockading Wilmington, N.C. Bartlett was discharged from the Navy in November, 1865, and returned to Connecticut, where he practiced medicine until his death.

The collection is chiefly letters, January-August 1865, from Stephen Chaulker Bartlett written from New York harbor and on his ship blockading Wilmington, N.C., to his family, concerning personal and family matters, military activity, his medical work, and conditions in Wilmington after the surrender. Also included is a letter, 15 May 1908, from Stephen Russell Bartlett to his mother Julia Bilden Pickett (Mrs. Stephen Chaulker) Bartlett, advising her on preparing her claim for a pension as a widow of a Civil War veteran and a draft or copy of the declaration supporting her claim.