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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items) |
Abstract | The collection contains miscellaneous papers relating to United States forces during and immediately after the Civil War, including United States naval orders and correspondence, 1863-1865; muster rolls and pay rolls, 1864; a United States Bureau of Information manuscript, 1863, listing the organization of the Army of Northern Virginia; a narrative report of signal activities at Beaufort, N.C., in connection with seige of Fort Macon, N.C., 1862; a manuscript outline of General George Stoneman's last cavalry raid, 1865, written in 1867 by a participant; maps of waterways in Vicksburg, Miss., and Savannah, Ga.; an account of the siege of Fort Pulaski, Ga., by a member of the 48th New York Infantry Regiment, which operated siege guns on Jones and Daufuskie Island, S.C.; a Union soldier's description of treatment in "rebel jails," 1865; a letter of complaint regarding the federal occupation of the North Carolina Military Institute, 1865; and miscellaneous pictures, biographical sketches, and other papers. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: SHC Staff
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, February 2010
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The collection contains miscellaneous papers relating to United States forces during and immediately after the Civil War, including United States naval orders and correspondence, 1863-1865; muster rolls and pay rolls, 1864; United States Bureau of Information manuscript, 1863, listing the organization of the Army of Northern Virginia; narrative report of signal activities at Beaufort, N.C., in connection with seige of Fort Macon, N.C., 1862; manuscript outline of General George Stoneman's last cavalry raid, 1865, written in 1867 by a participant; maps of waterways in Vicksburg, Miss., and Savannah, Ga.; an account of the siege of Fort Pulaski, Ga., by a member of the 48th New York Infantry Regiment, which operated siege guns on Jones and Daufuskie Island, S.C.; a Union soldier's description of treatment in "rebel jails," 1865; a letter of complaint regarding federal occupation of the North Carolina Military Institute, 1865; and miscellaneous pictures, biographical sketches, and other papers.
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Additions of 1957, 1959, 1962, 1968United States naval orders and correspondence, 1863-1865; narrative report of signal activities at Beaufort in connection with seige of Fort Macon, 1862; manuscript of General George Stoneman's last cavalry raid, 1865, written by a participant in 1867; and other papers. |
Oversize Paper OP-150/1-3
OP-150/1OP-150/2OP-150/3 |
Muster rolls and pay rolls for 1st Infantry Regiment of North Carolina Union Volunteers and 2nd Infantry Regiment of North Carolina Union Volunteers, 1864 |
Oversize Paper OP-150/5-6
OP-150/5OP-150/6 |
Maps of Vicksburg and Savannah waterways, circa 1862-1864 |
Folder 2 |
Additions of 1978"Sketches of Army Life: Siege of Fort Pulaski (Georgia)" |
Oversize Paper OP-150/4 |
Muster roll, Company B, 46th Regiment Infantry (colored), United States Army, 1864 |
Folder 3 |
Additions of 1986"Report of Persons and Articles Employed and Hired" (Hilton Head, S.C.); a Union soldier's description of treatment in "rebel jails," 1865. |
Folder 4 |
Addition of 1991"History of Leonard G. Gorman Army Life," 1890. |
Folder 5 |
Addition of 2003A letter of complaint regarding federal occupation of the North Carolina Military Institute, 1865. |
Oversize papers (OP-150/1-6)
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