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Alexander and Ramsey families papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0162
Overview
Consists mostly of the correspondence of William Davidson Alexander, Susan Amelia Ramsey Alexander and James Gettys McGready Ramsey. Includes letters, deeds, estates records and genealogical information.
Dates:
1815 - 1940; 1860 - 1879
Arthur and Farrar families papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0065
Scope and Contents
Materials created and collected by James Harrison Arthur (1901-78), his wife Katherine Miller Arthur (1914-74), and his uncle Benjamin Franklin Arthur Jr. (1863-1944). Consists primarily of correspondence and subject files of James and Katherine, residents of Gaston County, N.C. Also includes daily expense records (1926-73); business correspondence (1925-74) related to James's work as a textile mill accountant in North Carolina and South Carolina; papers (1877-1901) of Dr. James Park McComb...
Dates:
1809 - 1978
Rufus Clay Barringer papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 223
Identifier: MS0223
Overview
Items relating to Confederate General and Charlottean Rufus Clay Barringer. Photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles and a copy of Barringer's diary while imprisoned at Fort Delaware in 1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1995; 1863 - 1993
William Wallace Beard Civil War letters
Collection
Identifier: MS0597
Overview
Collection consists largely of letters written by William Wallace Beard, a member of the Mississippi 18th Regiment in the Confederate Army. The letters are written during his time as a soldier in the United States Civil War largely from different sites around Virginia. It includes 32 letters (30 of which are from Beard and 2 of which are from Col. A.P. Hill) and one furlough document.
Dates:
1861-08 - 1865-04
Ken Brotherton papers
Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 152
Identifier: MS0152
Scope and Contents
Primarily photocopies of articles published in the Mecklenburg Gazette, Mooresville Tribune, and Lake Norman Magazine about the history of North Mecklenburg and the Lake Norman area. Includes a nine-part article based on the Civil War letters of Joseph and Margaret Brawley Lipe of Iredell County. Also includes an essay, "Caldwell Family History," about descendants of the Lipe family.
Dates:
1985 - 1991
Richard Lee Clark papers concerning the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: MS0052
Overview
Collection of Civil War documents relating to the daily operations of the Union Army at their camp at Port Royal, S.C.
Dates:
1862 - 1865
Emma Echols papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0228
Overview
Primarily photocopies and transcripts of the antebellum and Civil War papers of William Leonidas Faulkner, who served in Company I, 17th South Carolina Volunteers and died in a Union prison camp. The letters discuss typical concerns of a soldier, such as troop movements, reports of sickness and news of friends and relatives. Places represented in the correspondences include for or more locations in each of the following: NC, SC, Miss. and Va. Also includes papers and genealogical information...
Dates:
1790 - 1997
James H. Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0444
Overview
This collection of two items (a diary recorded in 1864 and 1865, and a New Testament) were the property of James H. Evans, of Company F, 7th Wisconsin Volunteers. Evans was taken prisoner and incarcerated at the POW Camp in Salisbury, NC. He died on January 28, 1865.
A few of the diary entries that merit particular attention are for May 5 and 6, 1864 (the days when Evans saw combat and was taken prisoner), November 25 (an attempted prison break-out), Sunday, December 18 (when three men...
Dates:
1864 - 1865
Nicholas Biddle Gibbon papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0078
Overview
Thirty-page typescript transcription of the Civil War memoirs of Nicholas Biddle Gibbon, written between 1861 and 1866, and describing his service in North Carolina and Virginia as a drill master and commissary in the 1st and 28th North Carolina Regiments. Also includes genealogical information about Gibbon's family and that of his wife, Harriet Cornelia Alexander, a descendant of Hezekiah Alexander. All materials are reproductions.
Dates:
1799 - 2000
Virginia Caroline Goodwin papers
Collection — Oversize Box: OF14 [F09.002.07.002], Folder: 2
Identifier: MS0072
Overview
Three drafts of a love letter to Goodwin from David R. Autry, a Confederate soldier stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh; two poems, presumably by Goodwin; photographs; and genealogical/biographical information.
Dates:
1864 - 1971
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