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Collection Number: 01220-z

Collection Title: Allison Owen Letters, 1866; 1885.

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Size 2 items
Abstract Allison Owen was the son of William Miller Owen, a Confederate officer who after the Civil War formed Longstreet, Owen and Company, a brokerage business, in partnership with General James Longstreet. The collection includes two letters. One, 26 January 1866, is from Robert E. Lee to Longstreet, Owen and Company congratulating them on their new partnership. The other, 2 April 1885, is a draft of a letter from Jefferson Davis to N. Walker, giving his reasons for declining to prepare a criticism of General Grant's military career.
Creator Owen, Allison.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Allison Owen Letters, #1220-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Allison Owen of New Orleans, La., January 1947.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Allison Owen was the son of William Miller Owen, a Confederate officer who after the Civil War formed Longstreet, Owen and Company, a brokerage business in partnership with General James Longstreet.

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The collection includes two letters. One, 26 January 1866, is from Robert E. Lee to Longstreet, Owen and Company congratulating them on their new partnership. The other, 2 April 1885, is a draft of a letter from Jefferson Davis to N. Walker, giving his reasons for declining to prepare a criticism of General Grant's military career.

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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