Inventory of the Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, circa 1870-1897

Collection Number 3006


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b. 1829.
Title
Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, circa 1870-1897.
Call Number
3006
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
1 volume (370 pages).
Abstract
MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Original in private hands in 1954.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Robert Archelaus Hardaway Recollections, #3006, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Alabama--Biography.
Alabama--Genealogy.
Auburn University--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Autobiographies--Alabama.
Central Railroad (Mexico)
Children--Alabama--Social life and customs.
College students--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
College students--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
College teachers--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Emory College--Students--Social life and customs.
Hardaway, Robert Archelaus, b. 1829.
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
Mobile and Girard Railroad Company.
Plantation owners--Alabama.
Railroad engineers--Mexico--History--19th century.
Railroads--Alabama--History--19th century.
Railroads--Mexico--History--19th century.
St. Joseph's College (Ala.)--Students--Social life and customs--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
United States. Army--Military life.
University of Alabama--Faculty--Social life and customs.
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
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Collection Overview

MICROFILM ONLY. Recollections of Hardaway, born in Georgia and raised in Alabama; educated at St. Joseph's College, Ala., and Emory College, Ga.; with the United States Army in Mexico; superintendent of the Mobile and Girard Railroad; Alabama planter; Confederate artillery officer in Virginia; engineering professor at Auburn University, 1873-1881, and at the University of Alabama, 1882-1897; and engineer for the Central Railroad in Mexico, 1881- 1882. Also included are family histories and articles relating to various phases of Hardaway's life.