Inventory of the Tod Robinson Caldwell Papers, 1801-1890
Collection Number 128
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Caldwell, Tod Robinson, 1818-1874.
- Title
- Tod Robinson Caldwell Papers, 1801-1890.
- Call Number
- 128
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 550 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Tod Robinson Caldwell Papers, #128, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Caldwell, John, d. 1863.
- Caldwell, Minerva Ruffin Cain.
- Caldwell, Tod Robinson, 1818-1874.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 33rd.
- Governors--North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Plantation life--Alabama.
- Plantation life--North Carolina.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Whig Party (N.C.)
Related Material
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John Caldwell papers (#329) Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tod Robinson Caldwell papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.
Biographical Note
Tod Robinson Caldwell (1818-1874) was a lawyer and Republican governor of North Carolina, 1871-1874, from Burke County, N.C.
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The collection includes family and political correspondence. Papers through 1865 consist chiefly of letters to Caldwell's wife, Minerva Ruffin (Cain) Caldwell, from his relatives, planters of Orange County, N.C., and Marengo County, Ala.; letters from their son, John (d. 1863), while serving in the Confederate Army in Virginia; and a small amount of Whig political correspondence. After 1865 papers are chiefly Caldwell's political correspondence.