Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #3158-z
                        RUFUS AMIS PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Scattered family papers of Rufus Amis of Granville
           County, N.C., including letters, 1848-1850, to his
           first wife, Elizabeth Ragland, in Colbert and Barton,
           Miss.; letters concerning Amis's illness and
           resignation from the Confederate Army; certificates;
           receipts; muster rolls, 1861, of Company I, 13th North
           Carolina Volunteers; and pages from the Amis and
           Chandler family Bibles and Amis family histories. 
           Correspondence includes microfilm copies of two
           additional letters, one from Rufus to Bettie, 1858,
           telling her about prospects for settling in Arkansas
           and its advantages over North Carolina, and one, 1853,
           from John Barr Andrews, a student at the University of
           North Carolina.  

Online Catalog Terms:
   Amis, Elizabeth Ann Ragland, 1836-1900.
   Amis Family--Genealogy.
   Amis, Rufus, 1835-1903.
   Andrews, John Barr, fl. 1853.
   Arkansas--Economic conditions--19th century.
   Chandler family--Genealogy.
   Confederate States of America--Army--Recruiting, enlistment,
       etc.
   Confederate States of America--Army--North Carolina Regiment
       13th.
   Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Ragland, Robert L., fl. 1848-1850.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Registers.
   University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--Social
       life and customs--19th century.

Size:   33 items.

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. John W. Ross of Green Cove
               Springs, Fla., and her sister, Mrs. T. M. Andrews
               of Chapel Hill, N.C., 1956-1979. 

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.