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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Jesse C. Haney Papers, #2399-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from John D. Haney of Scarsdale, N.Y.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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• Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863.
• Dramatists, American--New Jersey--History--19th century.
• English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902.
• Gunn, Thomas Butler, fl. 1861-1862.
• Haney, Jesse C.
• Hardin, John D., fl. 1861.
• Journalists--South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Journalists.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Public opinion.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• Washington (D.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Jesse C. Haney (1828-1901) of New York, N.Y., was publisher of The Comic Monthly and several other short-lived periodicals before and during the Civil War and later of a series of recitation books.

The collection includes scattered papers and personal and business letters to Jesse C. Haney including letters from Thomas Butler Gunn, an English journalist in Charleston, S.C., 1861-1862, discussing war sentiment and activities of Union forces; two letters, October 1861, from John D. Hardin, a Union soldier at Camp Stoneman, Washington, D.C., about his daily routine and other matters; a pencil drawing titled "Shooting of Chicamauga;" and a letter, poem, and essay by Thomas Dunn English, New Jersey playwright.