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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Civil War (Miscellaneous Federal) #150-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Miscellaneous single items are placed in this collection if they relate to the Civil War, but are not suitable for collections of Confederate papers or for Federal Soldiers Letters. Additions of May 1957 and September 1957 received from Winston Broadfoot. Addition of November 1959 purchased from Charles Hamilton. Addition of April 1962 received from Leland Stanford Montgomery, Jr., of New Orleans, La. Addition of November 1962 purchased from American Library Service, New York, N.Y. Addition of March 1968 purchased from Carnegie Book Shop, New York, N.Y. Addition of June 1968 transferred from the Map Room of the Library. Addition of 1978 purchased from the Manuscript Company of Springfield, Va. Addition of 1979 purchased from Autos and Autos of Elizabeth City, N.C. Additions of 1986 purchased from Cohasco, Inc., of Yonkers, N.Y. (Acc. 86143 and 86174). Addition of 1991 purchased from William Marvel of Galvanized Yankee Bookshop of South Conway, N.H. (Acc. 91026). Addition of 2004 purchased from Robert Ciz-Madia (Acc. 99709).

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• Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia--Organization.
• Fort Pulaski (Ga.)--History--Siege, 1862.
• North Carolina Military Institute.
• Stoneman's Raid, 1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States. Army--Records and correspondence.
• United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 48th (1861-1865).
• United States. Bureau of Information--History--19th century.
• United States. Navy--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States. Navy--Records and correspondence.

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.

Oversize papers (OP-150/1-6)