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Collection Number: 03723-z

Collection Title: William Henry Boyce Letters, 1861-1863

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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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Size 22 items
Abstract William Henry Boyce of Bangor, Me., served in the United States army during the Civil War. The collection includes typed copies of letters from William Henry Boyce, while a federal soldier serving with the 15th Maine Regiment, to his mother and a brother. These letters were written chiefly from near New Orleans, La., and Pensacola, Fla.; they describe military engagements, food, accommodations, social matters, troop movements, and other matters. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping of a posed photograph of Union Army officers, possibly taken at a reunion, with the caption, "Remember?"
Creator Boyce, William Henry, d. 1923.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the William Henry Boyce Letters, #3723-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. James Clay Boyce of Orlando, Fla., November 1965.
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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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010

Updated by: Amanda Loeb, December 2011

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.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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William Henry Boyce (died 1923) of Bangor, Me., served in the 15th Maine Regiment, United States army in the Civil War. He later lived in North Carolina and South Carolina where he started a harness business. He also lived in Pittsburg, Pa., and Terre Haute and Indianapolis, Ind. After an injury on the horse track, he went to work for Standard Oil in New York, N.Y.

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The collection includes typed copies of letters from William Henry Boyce, while a federal soldier serving with the 15th Maine Regiment, to his mother and a brother. These letters were written chiefly from near New Orleans, La., and Pensacola, Fla.; they describe military engagements, food, accommodations, social matters, troop movements, and other matters. The collection also includes a newspaper clipping of a posed photograph of Union Army officers, possibly taken at a reunion, with the caption, "Remember?"

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