Inventory of the Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, 1861-1865
Collection Number 3443-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Johnson Island Prison.
- Title
- Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, 1861-1865.
- Call Number
- 3443-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 2 volumes
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Administrative Information
- 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 Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, #3443-z, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Autograph albums--Confederate States of America.
- Autograph albums--Maryland.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Autographs.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 7th.
- Fite, John A.
- Granite industry and trade--Photographs.
- Johnson Island Prison.
- McClenehan, Dan M.
- Quarries and quarrying--Photographs.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
Collection Overview
An album, apparently of John A. Fite, of Carthage, Tenn., colonel, 7th Tennessee Regiment, containing autographs and personal data written by, and relating to, Confederate officers imprisoned at Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio, during the Civil War; and an album of Dan M. McClenehan, Fort Deposit, Md., containing similar entries, as well as autographs of friends from Maryland, 1860-1861, and from Baltimore and elsewhere, 1872, 1879, and 1880. The second volume also includes undated photographs of a granite quarry, of individuals, some of whom are identified, and of other subjects; a brief essay on "Friendship, Love, and Truth," 1860; and other items.