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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mebane and Graves Family Papers, #1544-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Originals returned to private donor in 1948.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1.

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• Camp Vance (Va.)
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Graves family.
• Graves, George A., d. 1907.
• Graves, John Azariah, 1822-1864.
• Graves, Kate Mebane, fl. 1870-1880.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• Mebane family.
• Mebaneville (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Wiley, Calvin Henderson, 1819-1887.

Papers relating to John Azariah Graves (1822-1864) of Caswell County, N.C., including a letter to him from Calvin H. Wiley, 1855; a letter from him at Camp Vance, Va., 1863?; letters about his death at Johnson's Island and his funeral, 1864; a letter from Lieutenant Colonel George A. Graves (died 1907) from Johnson's Island Prison, Ohio, about a revival there and other matters; correspondence in the 1870s of Kate Mebane Graves, of Mebaneville, N.C.; newspaper clippings; and a few other items.