Inventory of the Zaccheus Ellis Letters, 1865
Collection Number 3266-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
- Ellis, Zaccheus, d. 1865.
- Title
- Zaccheus Ellis Letters, 1865.
- Call Number
- 3266-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 3 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 Zaccheus Ellis Letters, #3266-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.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Heavy Artillery Battalion, 1st.
- Ellis family.
- Ellis, Zaccheus, d. 1865.
- Wilmington (N.C.)--History--19th century.
Collection Overview
Letters, 12 February and 1 March 1865, from Ellis (died 19 March 1865), a lieutenant with Company B, 1st Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery, stationed at the entrance of the Cape Fear River, to his family; and a memo about the Ellis family. In his letters, Ellis described his situation and military and current events near Wilmington, N.C.