Inventory of the Charles E. Fenner Papers, 1797-1900

Collection Number 255-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
Fenner, Charles E. (Charles Erasmus), 1834-1911.
Title
Charles E. Fenner Papers, 1797-1900.
Call Number
255-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
39 items.
Abstract
Charles E. Fenner was a Louisiana Supreme Court justice; and an officer in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department. The collection includes scattered papers of Fenner, including military papers and five Reconstruction-era political speeches. Papers before 1838 are about property and family affairs of Henry Douglass Downs of Mississippi Territory; papers between 1844 and 1864 are primarily Payne family materials.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Prior to 1940
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 Charles E. Fenner Papers, #255-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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
Confederate States of America. Army. Trans-Mississippi Dept.--Records and correspondence.
Downs, Henry Douglass, fl. 1797-1838.
Fenner, Charles E. (Charles Erasmus), 1834-1911.
Judges--Louisiana--History--19th century.
Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950.
Mississippi--History.
Payne family.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Louisiana.
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Biographical Note

Charles Erasmus Fenner (1834-1911) was a Louisiana Supreme Court justice; and an officer in the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes scattered papers of Fenner, including military papers and five Reconstruction-era political speeches. Papers before 1838 are about property and family affairs of Henry Douglass Downs of Mississippi Territory; papers between 1844 and 1864 are primarily Payne family materials.