Manuscripts Department
              Library of the University of North Carolina
                            at Chapel Hill

                    SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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                       JAMES A. JOHNSTON PAPERS
                               Inventory


Abstract:      James A. Johnston (b. 1809), was a merchant, planter,
           and slaveholder of Iredell County, N.C.  In 1864, he served
           as a steward in a Confederate Army field hospital in
           Petersburg, Va.  
               The three items in this collection are an 1845 bill of
           sale for Johnston's purchase of a 23-year-old black slave
           named Henry for $450 from David Holdsclaw of Iredell
           County, N.C.; an 1864 letter from Johnston in Petersburg,
           Va., where he was serving as a hospital steward, to his
           uncle about Johnston's activities; and a list of birth and
           death records, presumably for black slaves, with entries
           ranging from 1825 to 1867.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Confederate States of America. Army--Medical care.
   Holdsclaw, David, fl. 1845.
   Hospitals, Military--Confederate States of America.
   Johnston, James A. (b. 1809)
   Petersburg (Va.)--History --Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Slave bills of sale.
   Slave records--North Carolina.
   Slavery--North Carolina.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.

Size:  3 items.

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. F.O. Johnston of Davidson, N.C., in
               July 1932. 

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship
                   of a grant from the National Endowment for the
                   Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington,
                   D.C., 1990-1992.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their
           descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.