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[Identification of item], in the Calder Family Papers, #125, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

1944; 1949

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• Account books.
• Calder family.
• Calder, Phila Lazarus.
• Calder, Robert E.
• Calder, William, b. 1844.
• Commission merchants--North Carolina--Wilmington.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd.
• Health resorts--Virginia.
• Hunter, William, fl. 1817.
• London, John L., fl. 1838.
• Virginia--Description and travel.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History.

The Calder family resided in Wilmington, N.C. Prominent members included the brothers William Calder (b. 1844) and Robert E. Calder. They were both Confederate soldiers in the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America.

The collection includes family correspondence, accounts, diaries, chiefly 1857-1865, of members of the Calder family of Wilmington, N.C. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Confederate soldiers William and Robert E. Calder written from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania while serving in the 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, to their mother, Phila Lazarus Calder. After the war there are family papers of the Calder brothers including their accounts as wholesale grocers and commission merchants in Wilmington (1874). Also included are a property account book (1817) of Captain William Hunter; a travel account (1838) of John L. London about the Virginia springs; and an account book (1859-1860) of William Calder.