Inventory of the Julien Dwight Martin, Collector, Papers, 1847, 1861-1863, 1925, 1957
Collection Number 3639-z
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 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
- Southern Historical Collection
- Creator
- Martin, Julien Dwight.
- Title
- Julien Dwight Martin, Collector, Papers, 1847, 1861-1863, 1925, 1957
- Call Number
- 3639-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 7
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Administrative Information
- Alternate Form of Material
- Typed transcriptions of the letters from Edward Hall Armstrong are available.
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Staff, 1992
- Encoded by: Peter Hymas, November 2004
- Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Julien Dwight Martin Papers #3639-z, Southern Historical Collection, 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.
- Armstrong, Edward Hall, 1841-1864.
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 3rd.
- Kenan, Owen Hill.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- North Carolina Soldiers' Home (Raleigh, N.C.).
- University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
- College students--North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Soldiers' homes--North Carolina--History--20th century.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Biographical Note
Julien Dwight Martin was a collector who resided in Wilmington, N.C., and Newport News, Va.
Edward Hall Armstrong was the son of Thomas G. Armstrong of New Hanover County, N.C. He was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1858-1861, and received his degree posthumously in 1911. He served as a captain in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment and was killed in May 1864.
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The collection includes three letters, 1861-1863, from Edward Hall Armstrong (1841-1864) of Wilmington, N.C., student at the University of North Carolina and captain in the 3rd North Carolina Regiment, written to his father; charges, 26 November 1862, against Captain Armstrong for failing to carry out an order; a photocopy of a Mexican War order, 3 May 1847, transferring P. G. T. Beauregard (1818-1893); a letter, 1925, from the North Carolina Soldiers Home, Raleigh, N.C.; and a letter, 1957, from Julien Dwight Martin to Colonel Owen Kenan concerning the Armstrong items. The letters from Armstrong are from Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 April 1861, about reactions on campus to the coming Civil War, and from Winchester, Va., 23 October 1862, and Orange Court House, Va., 2 August 1863, about war news and troops' needing blankets.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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Digital version: Letter from Edward H. Armstrong to Thomas G. Armstrong, 20 April 1861 |
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