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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Burwell Boykin Lewis Papers, #2417-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Original in private hands in 1942.

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• Alabama--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Lewis, Burwell Boykin, 1838-1885.
• Montgomery, Caroline Lewis.
• Spies--Confederate States of America.
• University of Alabama--Presidents.

Burwell Boykin Lewis was a Confederate officer from Alabama. He later served in the Alabama House of Representatives and the United States Congress, and as president of the University of Alabama.

The collection is a typed transcription of a letter, 1862, from Lewis, written from Camp Lee (near Pollard, Ala.), to his wife, concerning the capture of a Union spy, B. Colvin, in Florida, and other matters; and a seventeen-page biographical sketch of Lewis, written by his daughter, Caroline Lewis Montgomery.