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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.

Alternate Form of Material

Handwritten transcription available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. George Davis Crow of Baltimore, Md., 1957.

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

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• 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.

Zaccheus Ellis (d. 19 March 1865) of Wilmington, N.C., was a lieutenant with Company B, 1st Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery, stationed at the entrance of the Cape Fear River. He was killed in action at Bentonville, N.C.

The collection inlcudes two letters, 12 February 1865 and 1 March 1865, from Zaccheus Ellis, while a lieutenant with Company B, 1st Battalion, North Carolina Heavy Artillery, stationed at the entrance of the Cape Fear River, to his mother and sister; manuscript copies of the letters; and a memo about the Ellis family. In his letters, Ellis described his situation and military and current events near Wilmington, N.C.