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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Franklin Gaillard's Civil War Letters, #3790-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Photocopies made from typescript loaned by Henri G. Noordberg of Bridgton, Maine, May 1967.

Location of Originals

Originals in private hands in 1967.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Kershaw's Brigade.
• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd.
• Gaillard, Franklin, d. 1864.
• Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Porcher, Maria.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Franklin Gaillard (died 1864) was a Confederate officer with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, Kershaw's Brigade. He was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, Va.

The collection includes photocopies of typed transcriptions of letters from Franklin Gaillard while a Confederate officer with the 2nd South Carolina Regiment, Kershaw's Brigade, in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and east Tennessee. Most of the letters were written to his sister-in-law, Maria Porcher, who was caring for Gaillard's two children, whose mother had died. The letters contain detailed accounts of battles and other events, Gaillard's evaluations and speculations, description of his surroundings, social life in the areas he passed through, and news of friends and relatives. Letters were written from Winchester and Fredericksburg, Va.; Gettysburg, Pa; and near Chattanooga, Sweetwater, Bean's Station, New Market, and Warrensburg, Tenn.