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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the T. H. Holmes Correspondence #349-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 2005-2006) available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

Acquisitions Information

Received in the 1930s.

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• Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Confederate States of Amercia. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.)--Siege, 1861.
• Holmes family.
• Holmes, T. H. (Theophilus Hunter), 1804-1880.

Theophilus Hunter Holmes was born in Sampson County, N.C., on 11 November 1804. He was the son of Gabriel H. Holmes, a congressman and governor of North Carolina (1821-1824), and Mary Hunter. Holmes graduated from West Point Academy in 1829 and served in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and in the West before taking command of army recruiting in 1859. During the siege of Fort Sumter, he resigned his commission and returned to North Carolina. Holmes achieved the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate Army while serving in Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina. Holmes died 21 June 1880 in Cumberland County, N.C.

The collection of T. H. Holmes, officer in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, includes a telegram concerning the battle in progress at Fort Sumter, S.C., and a letter, December 1865, regarding family affairs in North Carolina and Holmes's desire for work or a position of some kind.