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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James M. Lilly Papers #3057-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the children and grandchildren of George Henry Albert Lilly in 1954 and from Al Baldwin in 1997 (Acc. 97030).

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• Accounting--Problems, exercises, etc.
• Baltimore Commercial College.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Lilly, James M., 1841-1864.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.

• Caroline Brooks Lilly Papers (#4530) in the Southern Historical Collection.

This collection contains practice account books and letters of James M. Lilly (1841-1864) of Montgomery County, N.C. The nine practice account books were used by Lilly when he attended Baltimore Commercial College, 1854-1855. Also included is a "Balance Sheet, Phillips & Moore," which is filed in oversized papers.

Most of the letters were written by Lilly to his family while he was a Confederate soldier in Virginia. They describe camp life and battles. Also included are two letters written prior to the Civil War about Lilly's business dealings, two letters from Lilly's brother Julius, a letter to J. A. Baldwin about battles in Richmond, and a letter informing the Lilly family of James Lilly's death near Petersburg, Va., in 1864, and transcripts of all the letters.

• OP-3057