Inventory of the David Miller Carter Papers, 1713-1916
Collection Number 143-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Carter, David Miller, 1830-1879.
- Title
- David Miller Carter Papers, 1713-1916.
- Call Number
- 143-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 3800 items (3.5 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 David Miller Carter Papers, #143-z, 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.
- Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company.
- Bank of Washington (Washington, D.C.)
- Banks and banking--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Canals--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Carter, David Miller, 1830-1879.
- Carter, Harriet Armistead Ryan Benbury, 1833-1877.
- Carter, Laura Armistead, d. 1935.
- Carter, Sarah Lindsay.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--Confederate States of America.
- Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- Washington (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
- Women--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Related Material
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See also David Carter Papers (#142) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
David Miller Carter (1830-1879) was a lawyer and landowner of eastern North Carolina; a Confederate colonel and military judge; a legislator, 1862-1865; and a resident of Washington, N.C., until he moved to Raleigh in 1874.
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The collection includes papers relating to land ownership and legal business mixed, after 1849, with family and personal correspondence and letters from political leaders of both parties. Civil War items relate to Carter's activities as military judge and other matters. Scattered papers deal with the Bank of Washington, the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal Company, and a wide variety of affairs in North Carolina. Correspondence of Carter's wife, Harriett Armistead Ryan Benbury Carter (1833-1877), is also included. Later papers are those of Carter's daughters, Sarah Lindsay Carter and Laura Armistead Carter (d. 1935).