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[Identification of item], in the Edward Porter Alexander Papers, #7, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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prior to 1940

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• 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.

Edward Porter Alexander (1835-1910) was an engineer, United States and Confederate army officer, university professor, businessman, and planter.

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.