Inventory of the William Downs MacGregor Notes, undated

Collection Number 3891-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
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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
MacGregor, William Downs, 1826-1907.
Title
William Downs MacGregor Notes, undated.
Call Number
3891-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
1 item (21 pages).
Abstract
Notes by MacGregor, Scottish immigrant to New York and press correspondent during the Civil War, defending the competence of newspaper writers covering the Civil War in reply to an attack on their reliability by General Henry Warner Slocum, of the United States Army. MacGregor's notes are undated, but apparently were written soon after the war.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1969
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 William Downs MacGregor Notes, #3891-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.

MacGregor, William Downs, 1826-1907.
Slocum, Henry Warner, 1826-1894.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Journalists.
War correspondents--United States--History.
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Collection Overview

Notes by MacGregor, Scottish immigrant to New York and press correspondent during the Civil War, defending the competence of newspaper writers covering the Civil War in reply to an attack on their reliability by General Henry Warner Slocum, of the United States Army. MacGregor's notes are undated, but apparently were written soon after the war.