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Collection Number: 00363-z

Collection Title: Cadwallader Jones Iredell Papers, 1856-1865.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 65 items
Abstract Cadwallader Jones Iredell was a captain in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America. The collection includes letters, 1862-1865, from Iredell while he was serving in the Confederate Army in Virginia, to his fiance, later wife, describing camp life, marches, and battles. Also included is an arithmetic notebook kept by Iredell at Alexandria Boarding School, Raleigh, N.C., 1856-1857.
Creator Iredell, Cadwallader Jones, 1840-1909.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Cadwallader Jones Iredell Papers, #363-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Selected volumes are available on microfilm.
Acquisitions Information
Loaned by James Iredell of Norfolk, Va., August 1940.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Cadwallader Jones Iredell (1840-1909) was a captain in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, Confederate States of America, who served primarily in Virginia. Iredell was the son of James Iredell of Edenton, N.C., and Frances Johnson Treadwell Iredell. He married Martha (Mattie) Southgate Jones in 1864.

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The collection includes letters, 1862-1865, from Cadwallader Jones Iredell while he was serving in the Confederate Army in Virginia, to his fiance, later wife, Martha Southgate Jones. Letters describe camp life and soldier morale, marches, battles, and casualties and destruction.. Iredell describes the engagements in which he and his regiment participate and also notable events of the war occurring elsewhere. He occasionally comments on the actions and whereabouts of important figures including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Ewell Brown Stuart, James Longstreet, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and William Tecumseh Sherman. Also included are an arithmetic notebook kept by Iredell at Alexandria Boarding School, Raleigh, N.C., 1856-1857, and photocopies of two portraits, one of Cadwallader Jones Iredell.

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Contents list

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Photographs (PF-363/1).

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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