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[Identification of item], in the Martin Moser Papers, #3972-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alamance County (N.C.)--History.
• Clapp family.
• Fogleman family.
• Illinois--Social life and customs.
• Kentucky--Social life and customs.
• Moser family.
• Moser, Martin, 1812-1875.
• Moser, Polly D. Robertson.
• Moser, Thaddeus Lucian, d. 1915.
• Neuse (Ship)
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Robertson family.
• Sailors--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Taxation--Confederate States of America.
• Tuttle, D. H.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Martin Moser was a farmer of Alamance County, N.C.

The collection contains letters, 1840-1859, received by Moser, farmer of Alamance County, N.C., and his wife, Polly D. Robertson Moser, from friends and relatives in the Moser, Robertson, Clapp, and Fogleman families in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Illinois, concerning family members, friends, and daily activities; three Confederate tax-in-kind returns of Martin Moser, 1863- 1865, and scattered letters from Confederate soldiers in northern Virginia, 1862-1864, and from sailors at Wilmington, N.C., and on board the C.S.S. "Neuse" at Kinston, N.C., 1864; business and personal papers 1873-circa 1905, of Thaddeus Lucian Moser (died 1915) of Rock Creek, Alamance County, N.C.; "Papa's Memory of the Civil War," (10 pages) written by D. H. Tuttle in 1937; and other items.