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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cornelia McGimsey Papers #2680-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Most items in this collection have been published in Mike and Carol Lawing, eds., My Dearest Friend: The Civil War Correspondence of Cornelia McGimsey and Lewis Warlick (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2000).

Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth Avery of Morganton, N.C., in October 1944.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 10th.
• Courtship--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Denton, John R.
• McGimsey, Cornelia, 1840-1920.
• Munday, J. Free.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Tate, Samuel P.
• United States General Hospital (David's Island, N.Y.)
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Warlick, E. A.
• Warlick, Lewis, d. 1865.
• Widows--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Chiefly letters to Laura Cornelia McGimsey of Linville River, Burke County, N.C., from Confederate soldiers, concerning the progress of the war, the unloading of blockade runners, engagements in eastern North Carolina, fishing along the coast, and the rebuilding of bridges. Most of these letters are from Lewis Warlick, whom McGimsey married during the war, and who served with the 11th North Carolina Regiment. Most were written from Virginia, and the U.S. General Hospital, David's Island, N.Y., in 1863. Letters of courtship, 1866-1868, are from E. A. Warlick, John R. Denton, Samuel P. Tate, and J. Free Munday after Warlick died.