Inventory of the William Richard Caswell Papers, 1805-1900
Collection Number 1849-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 Papers, 1805-1900 .
- Call Number
- 1849-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 200 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 Papers, #1849-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.
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Diaries.
- Mexican War, 1846-1848--Personal narratives.
- Real property--Iowa--History--19th century.
- Tennessee--History.
- Tennessee--Politics and government.
- Tennessee. Militia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- United States. Army--Officers--Diaries.
- Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
Biographical Note
Lawyer, planter, railroad director, volunteer army officer in the Mexican War, general of Tennessee militia early in the Civil War, from Dandridge and Knoxville, Tenn.
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Muster rolls, accounts, a diary, and letters concerning the Mexican War; political and business correspondence; a few military papers, 1861; correspondence of Caswell's wife concerning her difficulties during the Civil War and life after; papers about land holdings in Iowa; and miscellaneous other items.