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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Simpson Nash papers #4876-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jaquelin Drane Nash of Tarboro, N.C., in May 1997 (Acc. 97067).

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• Nash, Samuel Simpson, b. 1889.
• United States. Army--Military life.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--Officers.
• United States. Army. Infantry Division, 307th--History.
• World War, 1914-1918--France.

Captain, 307th Infantry Division, United States Army.

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.