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[Identification of item], in the Excerpts From the Autobiography of Maria Florilla (Flint) Hamblen, #3897-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1969

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• Confederate States of America--Description and travel.
• Green family.
• Hamblen, Maria Florilla Flint, fl. 1860-1861.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• Schools--North Carolina--Warrenton--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• Virginia--Description and travel.
• Warrenton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Warrenton Female Academy (Warrenton, N.C.)
• Williams family.
• Women teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Photocopy of a typed transcription. Excerpts from the recollections of Maria Flint, a young New York women, covering the period September 1860-June 1861, when she was a teacher at the Warrenton Female Academy, Warrenton, N.C. She described the school's administration, her social interaction with the Williams family and the family of Thomas Jefferson Green of Warrenton, and her journey back north via Richmond, Lynchburg, and Nashville after the declaration of war.