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[Identification of item], in the Cabarrus and Slade Family Papers, #1886-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Cabarrus County (N.C.)--Name.
• Cabarrus family.
• Cabarrus, Stephen, 1754-1808.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 13th.
• France--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Kean family.
• Kean, Augustus Cabarrus, 1843-1916.
• Rock Island (Ill.)--History--19th century.
• Slade family.
• Slade, Jeanne Charrier, fl. 1826-1843.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Chiefly microfilm and typed transcriptions. Miscellaneous papers of the Cabarrus and Slade families of North Carolina, including a letter, 11 January 1794, from Stephen Cabarrus (1754- 1808), a French immigrant and North Carolina politician, thanking the standing committee of Cabarrus County, N.C., for naming the county for him; family letters, 1826-1843, to Cabarrus's niece, Jeanne Charrier Slade, Edenton, N.C., from her relatives in France; reminiscences of Augustus Cabarrus Kean (1843-1916) of Tennessee and California of his Confederate service with the 13th Tennessee Infantry and imprisonment at Rock Island, Ill. (80 pages); notes on the history of the Kean family and related families and transcriptions of pertinent documents (48 pages); and other family material.