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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Robert Hairston Papers #1148-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Robert Hairston of Reidsville, N.C., in August 1946.

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• Confederate States of America Army--Military life.
• Fredericksburg (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Hairston, Robert.
• Hairston, Samuel, 1784-1880.
• Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799.
• Jones, C. H., fl. 1862.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--Politics and government--1801-1815.
• Wilson family.

• See also Samuel Hairston Papers (#3820) at the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Five scattered items related to various members of the Hairston family. The collections was named for the donor, but not concerned directly with him or with any other member of the Hairston family named Robert.

Included are a letter, 1799, from Patrick Henry to Colonel George Hairston about the sale of land, horses, and other business; a letter, 1812, from Samuel Hairston to his father George Hairston, about his recent illness and current news; and a letter, 1862, from Confederate soldier C. H. Jones to his mother, written from a camp near Fredericksburg and describing a recent fight in that area. Also included are a genealogy, (typescript, 12 pages) of the Wilson family of Pittsylvania County, Va., compiled by Jessie Wilson Wood, and a typed copy of "The Richest Man in Virginia," an article on Samuel Hairston from De Bow's Review.

Typed transcriptions of the letters are filed with the originals.

• OPF-1148/1