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[Identification of item], in the Kenton Harper Papers, #2863, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Berkeley County (W. Va.)--Maps.
• Chickasaw Indians--Government relations.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 5th.
• Desertion, Military--Confederate States of America.
• Fort Washita (Okla.)--History.
• Harper, Kenton, 1801-1867.
• Indian agents--Oklahoma--History--19th century.
• Indians of North America--Oklahoma--History--19th century.
• Mexican War, 1846-1848--Campaigns.
• Mexico--Description and travel.
• Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Desertions.
• United States. Army--Military life.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Dept. of the Interior--History--19th century.
• United States. Dept. of the Interior--Officials and employees.

Captain of volunteers in the Mexican War; United States agent to the Chickasaws at Fort Washita, Indian Territory, 1851-1862; official in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C.; colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment, C.S.A; from Augusta County, Va.

MICROFILM ONLY. Letters from Harper to his family describing military activities and his impressions of Mexico during the Mexican War; correspondence about Harper's activities as United States agent to the Chickasaw Indians at Fort Washita, Okla.; correspondence about the Department of the Interior, including letters from Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Secretary of the Interior; Confederate Army papers, including receipts, orders, and correspondence, some relating to deserters; papers of his grandson relating to Harper's Confederate career; and a map of Berkeley County, Va., 1847.