Inventory of the Joseph E. Kimmins Papers, 1860-1881

Collection Number 4306-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
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
Kimmins, Joseph E.
Title
Joseph E. Kimmins Papers, 1860-1881.
Call Number
4306-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
17 items.
Abstract
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.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1970
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 Joseph E. Kimmins Papers, #4306-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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Collection Overview

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.