Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #3509-z
                   SILAS EVERETT FALES PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Chiefly Civil War correspondence of Silas Everett
           Fales, a federal soldier with the 42nd Massachusetts
           Infantry.  Most items are letters received by Fales
           from his relatives in Massachusetts, discussing
           attitudes toward the war and slavery, and business
           conditions in Massachusetts.  Also included are
           letters from Fales, written near New Orleans, La.,
           with comments on blacks, local conditions, and army
           life.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Fales, Silas Everett, fl. 1854-1865.
   Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Afro-Americans.
   Louisiana--Social conditions--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Massachusetts--Economic conditions--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Slavery--United States--Public opinion.
   Soldiers--United States--Correspondence--History--Civil War,
       1861-1865.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Public opinion.
   United States. Army--Military life--History--Civil War, 1861-
       1865.
   United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 42nd
       (1861-1865).

Size:  36 items (4 folders).

Provenance:    Purchased from Goodspeed's Bookshop in Boston,
               Mass., in October 1960.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.