Inventory of the Edward Porter Alexander Papers, 1852-1910
Collection Number 7
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910.
- Title
- Edward Porter Alexander Papers, 1852-1910
- Call Number
- 7
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 3000 items (7.5 linear feet)
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Edward Porter Alexander Papers, #7, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Alexander family.
- Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910.
- Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
- Confederate States of America. Army--History.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Georgetown County (S.C.)--History.
- Hagerstown (Md.)--History.
- Mason family.
- Nicaragua--Politics and government--1838-1909.
- Panama--Politics and government--1821-1903.
- Savannah (Ga.)--History.
- Washington (Ga.)--History.
Biographical Note
Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910) was an engineer, United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, and planter.
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Civil War papers include diaries and notebooks, voluminous postwar correspondence with other officers concerning a proposed history of Longstreet's corps and preparation of Alexander's memoirs (published 1907), drafts of the manuscript and other writings, speeches, and collected histories of various army units. Other papers include letters from the Adam Leopold Alexander family of Savannah and Washington, Ga.; papers of the Alexander H. Mason family of Hagerstown, Md.; scattered business letters; E.P. Alexander's letters from Nicaragua, 1896-1899, while he served as arbitrator in the Costa Rica-Nicaragua boundary dispute; diary of a trip to Panama and Nicaragua in 1900; papers concerning South Island property, Georgetown County, S.C.; memoirs of early life; and miscellaneous writings.