Inventory of the Long Family Papers, 1857-1877
Collection Number 3269-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Long family.
- Title
- Long Family Papers, 1857-1877.
- Call Number
- 3269-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 57 items.
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Administrative Information
- 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 Long Family Papers, #3269-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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Collection Overview
Correspondence of an Alamance County, N.C., family, chiefly letters written, 1861-1862, by John A., Benjamin N., 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, 1872, from a patient at "Insane Asylum, N.C." briefly describing her life there. Spelling is frequently colloquial.