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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bryan and Minor Family Papers #2494-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions Information

Received from Isabel Bryan Bullitt in January 1942; Mrs. E. C. Williston of Northampton, Mass., in June 1946; and Margaret Bullitt Cardwell of Cambridge, Mass., in July 1969.

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• Aerial reconnaissance, Confederate.
• Autobiographies--Virginia.
• Balloons--Confederate States of America.
• Bryan, John Randolph.
• Bryant family.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Aviation.
• Education--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Freedmen--Virginia--Biography.
• Minor family.
• Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
• Plantations--Virginia.
• Slavery--Virginia.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Balloons.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Reconnaissance operations.
• Virginia--Biography.
• Virginia--Genealogy.
• Virginia--Religion--19th century.
• Virginia--Social life and customs.

Scattered family letters, 1807-1918, of the Bryan and Minor families; Bryan family Bible records; reminiscences of John Randolph Bryan's experiences in balloon reconnaissance for the Confederate Army during the siege of Yorktown in 1862; and thirteen volumes of Bryan and Minor family Records, chiefly consisting of typed transcriptions of biographies, autobiographies, and letters, including reminiscences of a former slave and servant, and relating to religion, education, household affairs, slavery, freedmen, plantation economy, and other aspects of 19th- century Virginia life.