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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Walter A. Montgomery Papers, #1996, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth M. Montgomery, March 1952.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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• Autobiographies--North Carolina.
• Confederate States of America--History.
• Judges--North Carolina--History.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• Montgomery, Walter A. (Walter Alexander), 1845-1921.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.

Walter Alexander Montgomery (1845-1921) was born in Warrenton, N.C., and served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. He practiced law in Warrenton until 1893 except for a brief period, 1872-1875, in Memphis, Tenn. He moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1893, was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1894-1904, and resumed the practice of law in Raleigh until his death.

The collection contains writings of Walter Alexander Montgomery, including typed drafts and supplementary notes for an unpublished political history of the Confederacy and for Montgomery's memoirs of his life after the Civil War alternately titled "My Day in Court," "A Country Lawyer of the Old South," and "A Southern Liberal of the Turn of the Century;" and an annotated typescript of his autobiography through 1865 (privately printed in 1939 as The Days of Old and the Years that Are Past).