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Size | 9 items |
Abstract | Christopher Wren Bunker served in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. He was captured 7 August 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio. The collection consists of seven letters, 1863-1864, from Christopher Wren Bunker serving in Tennessee and Virginia to his sister, and one letter, 12 October 1864, from Bunker in prison to his father, mother, brother, and sisters. The letters describe the weather and conditions in the army and give news of friends. The letter from prison discloses that Bunker had been captured and had been ill with smallpox at Camp Chase. The collection also contains an account book, 1880s, documenting personal and farm financial records of Christopher Wren Bunker. |
Creator | Bunker, Christopher Wren. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Linda Sellars, September 1996
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2005
Updated because of addition, January 2019
Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid and microfilming of this collection.
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Christopher Wren Bunker served in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. He was captured 7 August 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Back to TopThe collection consists of seven letters, 1863-1864, from Christopher Wren Bunker in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia to his sister, and one letter, 12 October 1864, from Bunker in prison at Camp Chase, Ohio, to his father, mother, brother, and sisters. The letters describe the weather and military life and give news of friends. The letter from prison discloses that Bunker had been captured on 7 August 1864 and had been ill with smallpox at Camp Chase. The collection also contains an account book, 1880s, documenting personal and farm financial records of Christopher Wren Bunker.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Folder 1 |
Papers, 1863-1864 |
Folder 2 |
Account book of Christopher Wren Bunker, 1880sAcquisitions Information: Accession 101785 |
Reel M-4822/1 |
Microfilm copy of papers, 1863-1864 |