Inventory of the Chesley D. Evans Letters, 1860-1861
Collection Number 918-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
- Evans, Chesley D., fl. 1860-1861.
- Title
- Chesley D. Evans Letters, 1860-1861.
- Call Number
- 918-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 6 items.
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Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Chesley D. Evans Letters, #918-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.
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Evans, Chesley D., fl. 1860-1861.
- Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)
- Secession.
- South Carolina Secession Convention (1861 : Charleston, S.C.)
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- South Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
Collection Overview
The collection includes letters from Evans to his wife while he was serving as a member of the secession convention in Charleston, S.C., describing the convention and the firing on Fort Sumter.