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[Identification of item], in the R. C. Gatlin Papers, #3868, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1968

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• Agriculture--Accounting--History--19th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Coast defenses--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Cobb, Collier, b. 1862.
• Cobb, Mary Knox Gatlin.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of North Carolina.
• Farms--Arkansas--History--19th century.
• Fort Bridger (Wyo.)
• Fort Laramie (Wyo. : Fort)
• Gatlin, Mary Ann Gibson.
• Gatlin, R. C. (Richard Caswell), 1809-1896.
• Gatlin, Susan Caswell.
• Sebastian County (Ark.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

• Cobb Family Papers (#4008), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Gatlin, native of North Carolina, was an officer of the United States Army, 1828-1861, and then Confederate brigadier general.

In part microfilm. Antebellum correspondence involving Gatlin, his wife, Mary Ann Gibson Gatlin, his sister, Mary Knox Gatlin, and his daughter, Susan Caswell Gatlin, concerning family and personal matters, life at Forts Laramie and Bridgers, Wyo., 1858-1860, traveling in the West with a family by wagon, and other matters; scattered Civil War and postwar letters and papers concerning the defense of the North Carolina coast, 1861, Gatlin's farm in Sebastian County, Ark., and other matters; letters, 1905-1913, from Collier Cobb and his wife Mary Knox Gatlin Cobb, discussing family and personal matters and community news from Chapel Hill, N.C., and the University of North Carolina; a farm account book Gatlin kept, 1866-1871; a volume containing an account by Gatlin of his United States Army career, 1828-1861, and of operations in the Confederate military department of North Carolina, 1861-1862, family records, and other data entered by Gatlin; and other items.