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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.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcriptions of the letters from Edward Hall Armstrong are available.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts, 1955-1958.

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• Armstrong, Edward Hall, 1841-1864.
• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
• College students--North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• 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 Soldiers' Home (Raleigh, N.C.).
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers' homes--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

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.

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.