Inventory of the Francis Everett Barnard Papers, 1832; 1860-1862

Collection Number 4181-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
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
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Barnard, Francis Everett, d. 1862.
Title
Francis Everett Barnard Papers, 1832; 1860-1862.
Call Number
4181-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
9 items.
Abstract
Barnard was a member of the Gideonites who came to the South Carolina sea islands in 1862 in the Port Royal Experiment to educate freed slaves. He became superintendent of the Edisto Island School. Two letters, 1862, from Barnard in South Carolina to his uncle in Boston, and enclosures in those letters consisting of letters written to Major William Meggett Murray of Edisto Island in 1832 and 1860-1862. Barnard had found the letters to Murray hidden on Murray's plantation. Included among the letters to Murray are two, 1832, concerning a meeting of the State Rights and Free Trade Party of St. Johns Colleton, Charleston District, S.C.; two, 1860, about prospects for a convention in Columbia, S.C., and opposing participation in the presidential nomination process while favoring secession; and one, 1861, from the ordnance office in Charleston to Major Murray, requesting muskets.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1980
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 Francis Everett Barnard Papers, #4181-z, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Barnard, Francis Everett, d. 1862.
Charleston District (S.C.)--History.
Edisto Island (S.C.)--History.
Murray, William Meggett.
Secession.
South Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
St. Johns Colleton (S.C.)--Politics and government.
States Rights and Free Trade Party.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
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Biographical Note

Barnard was a member of the Gideonites who came to the South Carolina sea islands in 1862 in the Port Royal Experiment to educate freed slaves. He became superintendent of the Edisto Island School.

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Collection Overview

Two letters, 1862, from Barnard in South Carolina to his uncle in Boston, and enclosures in those letters consisting of letters written to Major William Meggett Murray of Edisto Island in 1832 and 1860-1862. Barnard had found the letters to Murray hidden on Murray's plantation. Included among the letters to Murray are two, 1832, concerning a meeting of the State Rights and Free Trade Party of St. Johns Colleton, Charleston District, S.C.; two, 1860, about prospects for a convention in Columbia, S.C., and opposing participation in the presidential nomination process while favoring secession; and one, 1861, from the ordnance office in Charleston to Major Murray, requesting muskets.