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[Identification of item], in the William Lucius Faison Papers, #2247, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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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 Infantry Regiment, 61st.
• Faison family.
• Faison, Betty Peden.
• Faison, William Lucius, 1839-1891.
• North Carolina. Militia--History--19th century.
• Peden family.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Texas.
• Sampson County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Texas--Economic conditions.

MICROFILM ONLY. Chiefly letters of Faison of Sampson County, N.C., an officer in 61st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, including letters from him about fighting and other military activities, and to him in 1864 from members of his regiment while he was recovering from a wound; and letters of Betty Peden Faison and other members of the Peden and Faison families. One letter, 1868, describes difficult economic and social conditions in Texas. Also included are a few papers 1883 and 1888 of the Sampson County, N.C., militia.