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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Peter Mallett Papers, #480, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Owen W. Holmes prior to 1940 and 1950.

Transferred from the History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950.

Transferred from the William de Berniere MacNider Papers (#837), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 1956.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1aa.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
• Diaries.
• French Americans--North Carolina--Biography.
• Mallett, Peter, 1744-1805.
• Mallett, Peter, 1825-1906?
• Merchants--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Walker, Carleton, fl. 1785-1828.
• Weber, Margaret Walker.
• Women--Tennessee--Social life and customs.

• Confederate Conscript Bureau Papers (#170); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Charles Beatty Mallett Papers (#3165); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Peter Mallett (1825-1906?) was a merchant and railroad agent of Fayetteville, N.C., and New York City; and a Confederate Army officer and head of Confederate conscription in North Carolina.

The collection includes business, military, and personal correspondence, chiefly 1850s to 1880s of Peter Mallett. Volumes include diaries, 1856, 1861, 1867-1881, and 1898; Civil War letters and lettercopy books from the conscription office in Raleigh, N.C.; a list of North Carolina merchants visited by Mallett, 1846-1849, with reports and credit ratings of each; and shipping accounts. Also included are thirteen family letters, 1785-1828, of Carleton Walker (the father of Mallett's son-in-law), an English immigrant to Wilmington, N.C.; family and personal correspondence, 1868-1909, of Mrs. Virginius St. Clair MacNider, daughter of William Peter Mallett; and an autobiography (typed copy) of Peter Mallett (born 1744), immigrant from France to Wilmington, N.C., before the Revolution. Includes also the reminiscences of Margaret Isabella (Walker) Weber (born 1824), daughter of Carleton Walker (born circa 1777) and Caroline Mary (Mallett) Walker, who moved with her husband to Tennessee and later taught school in Nashville.

• Photographs (PF-480/1)