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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Brevard Kershaw Papers, #836, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Harriette Kershaw (Mrs. H. G.) Leiding of Charleston, S.C., June 1944.

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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• Clergy--South Carolina--History--20th century.
• DeSaussure family.
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--South Carolina--History--20th century.
• Kershaw family.
• Kershaw, John.
• Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894.
• Lambeth Conference.
• South Carolina--Genealogy.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.

Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was a Confederate general.

The collection includes papers pertaining to the Kershaw and DeSaussure families of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Confederate General Joseph Brevard Kershaw; and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, England, 1908.

• Oversize volume (SV-836/1
• Oversize papers (X-OPF-836/1)