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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Augustus Ropes Dimon Papers, #3459, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Microfilm available.

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Purchase 1960

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

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• Baton Rouge (La.)--History.
• Braden, Sarah.
• Dimon, Charles Augustus Ropes, b. ca. 1841.
• Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Ship Island (Miss.)--History.
• United States--History--Civl War, 1861-1865--Military life.
• United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

• Charles Augustus Ropes Dimon papers, Rare Book, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Charles Augustus Ropes Dimon of Salem, Essex County, Mass., enlisted in the United States Army during the Civil War and rose to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier general.

The collection includes personal correspondence and military papers of Dimon. Half of the items are letters written by Dimon to his fiancee, Sarah Braden, and to friends and relatives, chiefly from Ship Island and Vicksburg, Miss., and Baton Rouge and near New Orleans, La., concerning personal news, daily life, and military situations in which he was involved. Other papers are commissions, order, vouchers, and requisitions.