Inventory of the William Richard Caswell Letters, 1846-1847
Collection Number 2868-z
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
- Caswell, William Richard, 1809-1862.
- Title
- William Richard Caswell Letters, 1846-1847.
- Call Number
- 2868-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 2 items.
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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 William Richard Caswell Letters, #2868-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.
- Caswell, William Richard, 1809-1862.
- Foster, Ephraim Hubbard, 1794-1854.
- Hord, Thomas.
- Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- United States. Army--Military life.
- United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
Related Material
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William Richard Caswell Papers (#1849-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Overview
Letters written from Mexico during the Mexican War by Captain W. R. Caswell of Tennessee, aide-de-camp to Major General Gideon J. Pillow, addressed to Ephraim H. Foster and Thomas Hord in Tennessee, describing camp life and the progress of the war.