Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Anne Barbour Bruin Papers, #2484-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1942

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Confederate States of America--History.
• Elmira (N.Y.)--History--19th century.
• Fort Warren (Mass.)
• Point Lookout (Md.)
• Scrapbooks--Southern States.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Southern States--Social life and customs.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Women--Southern States--Social life and customs.

The collection contains three apparently unrelated letters, 1862-1865, from Confederate soldiers in federal prisons at Point Lookout, Md., Elmira, N.Y., and Fort Warren, Boston, Mass., to their friends in Alexandria, Va.; a provost marshal's pass, 1862; and a scrapbook, kept by a grandmother of Anne B. Bruin (otherwise unidentified), containing newspaper clippings about the Confederacy as well as poetry, religious articles, and some articles on historic Virginia and the South, mostly dating from the 1880s and 1890s.