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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Edward Asbury O'Neal Papers, #2631-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Deposited by Mrs. George Erwin Roulhac, Florence, Ala., 1942 and 1946.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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• Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Florence (Ala.)--History.
• Governors--Alabama--Election--History--19th century.
• Huntsville (Ala.)--History.
• Lawyers--Alabama--History--19th century.
• O'Neal family.
• O'Neal, Edward Asbury, 1818-1890.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1876.
• Scrapbooks--Alabama.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.

• Alfred Moore O'Neal Papers (#1884-z).

Edward Asbury O'Neal (1818-1890) was a lawyer, local secession leader, Confederate Army officer serving in Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, and governor of Alabama from 1882 to 1886.

The collection contains legal, personal, and political correspondence of Edward Asbury O'Neal (1818-1890). The collection chiefly consists of Civil War letters among O'Neal and his two sons in the Confederate Army, and his wife at home in Florence, Ala.; postwar letters and papers relating to his law practice in Florence and Huntsville, Ala.; and correspondence concerning his two gubernatorial campaigns and Alabama politics, with very little concerning the United States presidential election of 1876. Volumes are chiefly scrapbooks of clippings and manuscripts pertaining to O'Neal's political career, as well as other members of the O'Neal family.

• Special format pictures (SPF-2631/1)
• Pictures (PF-2631/1-3)
• Volumes (SV-2631/1,3,8,9)