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Collection Number: 02225

Collection Title: Henry L. Benning Papers, 1818-1897

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Size About 65 items (1 reel of microfilm)
Abstract Confederate Army officer, having served as colonel with the 17th Georgia Volunteers and after as brigadier general of the 15th, 20th, and 2nd Georgia regiments (Toombs' Brigade), 1st Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Primarily military papers of Benning in southside Virginia and in North Carolina, including resignations; reassignments; reports of casualties; items relating to the arrest of Lt. Henry McCauley; lists of persons having available supplies and produce; and correspondence concerning a riot in Raleigh, N.C., in September 1863, and the alleged involvement of one of Benning's officers, Lt. Col. W.S. Shepherd. Correspondents include Robert A. Toombs, Zebulon B. Vance, James A. Seddon, John D. Whitford, Samuel Cooper, and Jerome Bonaparte Robertson. Prewar items consist of miscellaneous legal papers, including the marriage contract, 1834, of Elijah Cook and Mary V. Walker of Harris County, Ga., and several items relating to the sale of slaves. Postwar items pertain to the compilation of records and histories of the war and include Benning's notes for Edward P. Alexander's history of Longstreet's Corps.
Creator Benning, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1814-1875.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Henry L. Benning, Papers #2225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Deposited by Henry B. Pease of Columbus, Ga., in April 1940 and filmed before removal in July 1957.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

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

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Confederate Army officer, having served as colonel with the 17th Georgia Volunteers and after as brigadier general of the 15th, 20th, and 2nd Georgia regiments (Toombs' Brigade), 1st Division, Army of Northern Virginia.

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Primarily military papers of Benning in southside Virginia and in North Carolina, including resignations; reassignments; reports of casualties; items relating to the arrest of Lt. Henry McCauley; lists of persons having available supplies and produce; and correspondence concerning a riot in Raleigh, N.C., in September 1863, and the alleged involvement of one of Benning's officers, Lt. Col. W.S. Shepherd. Correspondents include Robert A. Toombs, Zebulon B. Vance, James A. Seddon, John D. Whitford, Samuel Cooper, and Jerome Bonaparte Robertson. Prewar items consist of miscellaneous legal papers, including the marriage contract, 1834, of Elijah Cook and Mary V. Walker of Harris County, Ga., and several items relating to the sale of slaves. Postwar items pertain to the compilation of records and histories of the war and include Benning's notes for Edward P. Alexander's history of Longstreet's Corps.

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