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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Eliza Hall Parsley Papers, #576, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

In part, microfilm.

Acquisitions Information

1938-1965

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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• Amateur theater--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 3rd.
• Fort Delaware (Del.)
• Hilton Head (S.C.)--History.
• Parsley, Eliza Hall, fl. 1862-1897.
• Parsley, William Murdock, 1840-1865.
• United Daughters of the Confederacy. North Carolina Division.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--History.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--North Carolina--Societies and clubs.

Eliza Hall Parsley (fl. 1862-1897) was the president of the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; resident of Wilmington, N.C.

The collection includes letters and papers of Eliza Hall (Mrs. W.M.) Parsley of Wilmington, N.C., chiefly those she received or collected, 1890s to 1918, in her capacity as member and president of the North Carolina Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Also included are historical sketches and clippings; scrapbooks and club records; Civil War letters written by Lieutenant Colonel William Murdock Parsley (1840-1865) of the 3rd North Carolina Regiment, in Virginia and as a prisoner at Fort Delaware and at Hilton Head, S.C., and his memoranda concerning his capture at Spotsylvania, Va., and imprisonment; a portfolio of amateur plays and pageants presented in Wilmington in the 1890s; and other items.

• Photograph (P-576/1)