Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4876-z
SAMUEL SIMPSON NASH PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Captain, 307th Infantry Division, United States
Army.
Correspondence of Samuel Simpson Nash, Jr.,
during World War I. The letters begin when Nash
was stationed at Camp Upton in New York and continue
through his stay in France during the war. The
letters discuss camp life, family matters, and battles
in which Nash fought.
Online Catalog Terms:
Nash, Samuel Simpson, b. 1889.
United States. Army—Military life—History—World War, 1914-
1918.
United States. Army—Officers—Correspondence—History—World War,
1914-1918.
United States. Army—Officers—History--World War, 1914-1918.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 307th—History.
World War, 1914-1918—France.
Size: 34 items.
Date Span: 1917-1919.
Provenance: Received from Jaquelin Drane Nash of Tarboro,
N.C., in May 1997 (Acc. 97067).
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
DESCRIPTION
Samuel Simpson Nash, Jr., of Tarboro, N.C., son of Samuel
Simpson and Annie Gray Cheshire Nash, attended the University of
North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1906-1908, and served as a captain
in the 307th Infantry Division, United States Army, in France
during World War I.
This collection contains correspondence of Samuel Simpson Nash
Jr. Most of the letters are from Nash to his mother in Tarboro,
N.C., and several were written to a woman named Gray. The
letters begin when Nash was at Camp Upton in New York and
continue through his stay in France during the war. The letters
discuss camp life, family matters, and descriptions of battles in
which Nash fought.
Folder 1 1917-1918
2 1919 and undated