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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 Matilda Lamb Morton's "Memories of the War Between the States", #2467-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Matilda Lamb Morton of Rocky Mount, N.C., July 1942.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Autobiographies--Confederate States of America.
• Children--Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Biography.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Lamb family.
• Lamb, John Calhoun, 1836-1864.
• Lamb, Wilson G. (Wilson Gray), 1842-1922.
• Morton, Matilda Lamb, 1856-1945.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Tarboro (N.C.)--History.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Williamston (N.C.)--History.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Matilda Lamb Morton (1856-1945), was a child living in Tarboro and Williamston, N.C., during the Civil War. Her brothers, John Calhoun Lamb and Wilson Gray Lamb, were Confederate officers.

The collection consists of the recollections of Matilda Lamb Morton of the Civil War as she experienced it in Tarboro and Williamston, N.C. She mentions Union occupation of the Lamb and other well know homes, hardships in food and clothing, and the experiences of her brothers as Confederate army officers.