Inventory of the Thomas A. Nicholson Letters, 1861
Collection Number 5006-z
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Nicholson, Thomas A.
- Title
- Thomas A. Nicholson Letters, 1861
- Call Number
- 5006-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 5
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from the McGowan Book Company of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December 1999 (Acc. 98520).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: John Foster, November 2000
- Encoded by: John Foster, November 2000
- Revisions: Finding aid updated in May 2005 by Nancy Kaiser.
- Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the microfilming of this collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Thomas A. Nicholson Letters #5006-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Camp Centerville (Va.).
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Hospitals.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade.
- Nicholson, Thomas A.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Biographical Note
Thomas A. Nicholson joined the Confederate Army at Winchester, Va., on 18 July 1861. He served in the Stonewall Brigade (Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment). In September 1861, he spent time in Manassas Hospital with an ankle injury and complaints of weakness and chest pain. By the end of that month, he had rejoined his unit and was anxious to see combat. His letters originate from Camp Centerville, Va., and discuss the prospect that his unit was to be sent to winter quarters at Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley. Nicholson does not appear on the muster rolls for the Stonewall Brigade after December 1861.
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The collection consists of five letters of Virginia Civil War soldier Thomas A. Nicholson to his mother and sister, May-November 1861, while Nicholson was serving in the Stonewall Brigade (Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment). The letters discuss various aspects of military life; Nicholson's stay in Manassas Hospital; his desire to meet the Union Army in battle; and his unit's prospective move to winter quarters at Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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