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[Identification of item], in the Joseph E. Kimmins Papers, #4306-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1970

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• Agriculture--Arkansas--History--19th century.
• Arkansas--Politics and government.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 24th.
• Family--Arkansas--Social life and customs.
• Izard County (Ark.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Kimmins, Joseph E.
• Tarpley, Edward Dudley.

Chiefly letters written before and after the Civil War to Joseph E. Kimmins, a farmer in Bedford County, Tenn., from relatives in Izard County, Ark. The letters are about personal news and health, family business, property, weather and crops, with occasional comments on politics. Also included are two letters, 1860 and 1861, to Kimmins from E. D. Tarpley, in Lockart, Tex.; travel passes and a pay order for Lieutenant J. E. Kimmins of the 24th Tennessee Regiment, Confederate States of America; and a deed of gift, 1874, for land in Bedford County, Tenn.