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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Monroe F. Cockrell Papers, #1145-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Monroe F. Cockrell of Chicago, Ill., September 1941, August 1946 and March 1964. Additional material received from Claude G. Day of Port Isabel, Tex., January 1956.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
• Chapel Hill College (Mo.)--History.
• Cockrell family.
• Cockrell, Monroe F. (Monroe Fulkerson), b. 1884.
• Confederate States of America--History.
• Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862.
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877.
• Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864.
• McLean, Wilmer, 1814-1882.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps.

Monroe Fulkerson Cockrell (born 1884) of Chicago, Ill., was a writer on historical topics.

The collection includes miscellaneous papers including maps of the military campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest, including the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 1864, and the Battle of Corinth, Miss., 1862, compiled by Monroe F. Cockrell in the 1940s; a chart of the descendants of Andrew Cockrell; articles on Chapel Hill College of Missouri; information about the burial places of generals killed in the Battle of Franklin; and historical articles, presumably unpublished, by Cockrell, on the Confederacy, specifically concerning Major Wilmer McLean, McLean's homes at Appomattox and Bull Run, Va., P. G. T. Beauregard, and other topics (articles written 1952, 1959, 1963, and distributed by the author in 1964).