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[Identification of item], in the Harbison Family Papers #5285, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from William A. Harbison III of Charlotte, N.C., in June 2004 (Acc. 100463).

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• Burke County (N.C.)--History.
• Camp Davis (N.C.)
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 11th.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Harbison family.
• Harbison, William Alexander.
• Harbison, William Thomas.
• Morganton (N.C.)--History.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.

William Thomas Harbison (1844-1896) of Morganton, N.C., joined Company B, 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment of the Confederate army in 1861. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Gaines Mill on 2 June 1864, resulting in the amputation of his right leg below the knee. He served as Register of Deeds of Burke County, N.C., for ten years, having been elected to five consecutive terms. His son, William Alexander Harbison, established one of Burke County's oldest insurance firms, Morganton Insurance and Realty Company.

Papers of the Harbison family of Morganton, N.C., in Burke County, N.C., contain Civil War materials, including a letter of William Thomas Harbison to his parents written from Camp Davis, New Hanover County, N.C., 13 June 1862; a list of pay and clothing of William Thomas Harbison as a soldier of the Confederacy; and an application for retirement of William Thomas Harbison because of wounds received at the Battle of Gaines Mill while a member of the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Clippings relate to the deaths of William Thomas Harbison and William Alexander Harbison. Indentures, 1792-1898, relate to the Harbison family and others in Burke County, N.C. Insurance materials consist primarily of lists of grave sites of Harbison family members and others. There are also tax receipts, manuscript fragments, and two family photographs.

• Photographs (P-5285)