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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Long Family Papers, #3269-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. A. A. Riddle of Raleigh, N.C., February 1957.

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• Colloquial language.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Frederick (Md.)--History--19th century.
• Insane Asylum of North Carolina.
• Long family.
• Long, Benjamin N., fl. 1861-1862.
• Long, Jacob, fl. 1861-1862.
• Long, John A., fl. 1861-1862.
• Long, John, fl. 1861-1862.
• Long, Letitia R., fl. 1861-1862.
• Psychiatric hospitals--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Speech and social status--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Women--Institutional care--History--19th century.

The Long family of Alamance County, N.C., included John Long and Letitia R. Long and their sons John A. Long, Benjamin N. Long, and Jacob Long. The three sons served in the Confederate army and all were apparently killed in action by the end of 1862.

The collection includes correspondence of the Long family, chiefly letters written, 1861-1862, by John A. Long, Benjamin N. Long, and Jacob Long in Confederate camps in various places in Virginia, as well as Raleigh, N.C., and Frederick, Md., to their parents John and Letitia R. Long at home, concerning food, clothes, health, drilling, preaching, and other matters. Among other letters is one, 1857, from Eliza S. Thomas of Lawsonville, N.C., relating family news and plans to move to Missouri; also one letter 1872, from a patient at "Insane Asylum, N.C." briefly describing her life there; and other letters and fragments. Spelling is frequently colloquial.