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[Identification of item], in the Patton Family Letters, #581-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Patton, J. L.
• Patton, Jacob, fl. 1860-1864.
• Patton, John, fl. 1860-1864.
• Patton, Sam, fl. 1860-1864.
• Patton, William Macfarland, 1845-1905.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

The Patton family of Buncombe County, N.C., included brothers Jacob, John, Sam, and William Patton, sons of J. L. Patton. The brothers served in the Confederate Army in the Virginia and Mississippi Valley theaters.

The collection includes letters home from four Buncombe County, N.C., brothers, Jacob, John, Sam, and William Patton, sons of J. L. Patton. The brothers served in the Confederate Army in the Virginia and Mississippi Valley theaters. The letters discuss battles and conditions in camp.