Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, circa 1870-1897.
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b. 1829.
- Abstract:
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MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.
- Extent:
- 1 volume (370 pages)
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Library Catalog Link:
- View UNC library catalog record for this item
Background
- Scope and content:
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MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.
- Processing information:
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
- Sensitive materials statement:
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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.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Autobiographies--Alabama.
Children--Alabama--Social life and customs.
College students--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
College students--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
College teachers--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
Plantation owners--Alabama.
Railroad engineers--Mexico--History--19th century.
Railroads--Alabama--History--19th century.
Railroads--Mexico--History--19th century.
Mexican War, 1846-1848. - Names:
- Auburn University--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Central Railroad (Mexico)
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Emory College--Students--Social life and customs.
Mobile and Girard Railroad Company.
St. Joseph's College (Ala.)--Students--Social life and customs--19th century.
United States. Army--Military life.
University of Alabama--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b. 1829. - Places:
- Alabama--Biography.
Alabama--Genealogy.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
Access and use
- Restrictions to access:
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No restrictions. Open for research.
- Restrictions to use:
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
No usage restrictions.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], in the Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, #3006, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Location of this collection:
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Louis Round Wilson Library200 South RoadChapel Hill, NC 27515
- Contact:
- (919) 962-3765