Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
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SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
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JOHN R. PEACOCK PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Miscellaneous letters, soldiers' reminiscences,
photographs, autographs, and other papers relating to
the Confederacy, to Confederate officials before or
after the Civil War, and to other aspects of American
history, collected by John H. Peacock. Persons
mentioned include Jubal A. Early, States Rights Gist,
and G. T. Beauregard. Events mentioned include the
Cherokee Removal of 1838 and Price's Missouri
Expedition, 1864.
Online Catalog Terms:
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
Cherokee Removal, 1838.
Confederate States of America--Collectibles.
Confederate States of America--Officials and employees.
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894.
Gist, States Rights, 1831- .
Price's Missouri Expedition, 1864.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal
narratives, Confederate.
Size: 45 items (3 folders and P-1895/1-2).
Provenance: Received from John R. Peacock of High Point, N.C.,
in September 1951; July, September, and December
1953; January, June, and October 1954; March,
April, and August 1955; November and December
1956; August and October 1958; and April and July
1959.
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Papers
Series 2. Pictures
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Papers
1838-1954. 43 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 1 6 June 1838, photostat of letter to Henchin Strickland
of Danielsville, Madison County, Ga., from his son-in-
law, N. W. Pittman, and son H. P. Strickland, telling
of their activities as members of volunteer companies
engaged in the operation of removing Cherokee Indians
from Georgia.
5 September 1851, photoprint of letter to Colonel
Benjamin F. Larned, Acting Paymaster General, U.S.
Army, from A. Sidney Johnston, Paymaster, U.S. Army,
in Austin, Tex., enclosing a list of Captain H. E.
McCullough's Company of Texas Volunteers, with names
as they appear on the Audited Pay Roll and actual
names as written by the claimants, with eighteen
discrepancies.
10 September 1853, photoprint copy of a letter to J.
C. Osgood, Troy, N.Y., from J. F. Gilmer, Captain,
U.S. Corps of Engineers, enclosing a letter from
Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten about the patent
for Osgood's apparatus, which was being used by the
U.S. Government.
21 December 1855, photoprint of letter to Major
General Thomas S. Jesup, Quartermaster General of the
U.S. Army, from Lt. J. E. B. Stuart, in regard to a
contract for army purchase of corn.
15 October 1858, pass for a two horse vehicle on the
G. & G. Plank Road from Gulf to an unknown
destination.
12 November 1860, card with rates agreed upon by
eleven physicians of Forsyth County, N.C.
12 May 1861, photostat of letter from J. J. Minter at
Sullivans Island to his brother about how he liked the
army and about the soldiers' opposition to going to
Virginia.
21 July 1861, letter from Willie H. Hardy, a
Confederate soldier at Bull Run, to his mother just
before the battle.
12 August 1861, photoprint of letter to Brigadier
General W. W. Loring from Colonel Carter L. Stevenson,
Assistant Adjutant General, about a badge to be worn
by troops on this line.
28 October 1861, letter to Martha A. Knight from her
brother James F. Knight, Cap Butler, Barnwell County,
S.C., about family and friends.
November 1861, election slate showing the names of
candidates from sixteen Virginia districts, the state
at large, and the Confederate presidency and vice-
presidency. (Not available as of August 1996)
20 January 1862, letter to James B. Knight from his
son James F. Knight, Nansemond County, Va., about
making and sending him shoes.
20 February 1862, application for a leave of absence
from the Confederate Army for a sergeant and granted
by Major General H. R. Jackson.
Folder 2 19 January 1863, letter from A. N. Minter in a camp
near Fredericksburg to his brother about the war,
politics in the North, and daily events.
6 February 1863, letter to Harriet from her brother
William describing his situation in the Piney Woods
section of North Carolina.
31 March 1863, photoprint of letter to Governor
Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina from Governor John
Gill Shorter of Alabama about getting some cloth from
a North Carolina factory for uniforms for cadets at
the University of Alabama.
7 April 1863, letter to Thomas Poindexter from William
Sprinkle located near Fredericksburg.
12 May 1863, photoprint of letter to Miss E. W. from
Adam Seagle, Company F, 23rd North Carolina Regiment,
Jackson's Brigade, Rhodes Division, at Fredericksburg.
2 August 1863, letter from P. H. Poindexter,
Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, Va., to his uncle
telling about the recent fighting.
14 August 1863, photoprint letter to Dr. Lefar from
Greene Peyton, Orange Court House, Va., in regard to
an artificial leg for General Ewell. Peyton was aide
to General R. E. Rhodes and Lefar was in charge of the
Hospital Bureau in Charlottesville, 1861-1865.
8 November 1863, photocopy of letter from Major
General Patrick R. Cleburne, Missionary Ridge, to Lt.
Colonel David Urquhart.
31 January 1864, letter from J. W. Clark, a Federal
soldier at Camp Smith, Nashville, Tenn., to his
brother giving news of friends and describing life
around camp at Nashville.
27 June 1864, document exempting W. F. Simpson, John
Fawcett, and W. H. Fawcett from military duty in the
army of the Confederate States of America due to their
occupations as farmers and listing the supplies they
gave in turn to the Army.
10 August 1864, letter to Catherine Diehl from her
brother, Amos, a Federal soldier stationed near
Petersburg, telling about the death of their brother
Theodore, who had volunteered in Frederick County,
Md., in July following a wound received 18 June.
Fall, 1864, typescript copy of a manuscript entitled
"The Last Days of the Confederacy, The Last Great Raid
made by the Confederate Army under General Sterling
Price, and the Last Battle fought by the Confederate
Forces (in the Missouri area)" by W. J. Courtney,
Company B, 5th Cavalry, Shanks Regiment, Shelby's
Brigade, relating to Price's Missouri raid in the fall
of 1864.
17 November 1864, letter to James B. and E. Knight
from their son, James F. Knight, near Kinston, N.C.
30 November 1864, typescript statement of Judge L. H.
Magnum of Arkansas regarding the death and burial of
General Patrick R. Cleburne. Judge Magnum was
Cleburne's law partner before the war and, at
Franklin, was one of his staff officers. This was
taken from Campaigns and Battles of the Sixteenth
Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers by Thomas A. Head
(Nashville, Tenn., 1885).
Folder 3 16 April 1865, to Henry Jackson from his father, E. D.
Jackson, in Cherokee, Ga., telling about farm work,
hoping that his son could get a furlough, and
mentioning several who have "gone to the yankeys."
4 September 1865, letter to G. T. Beauregard from A.
H. Mason.
31 December 1865, photoprint of letter to Major Edward
Willis of Charleston, S.C., from G. A. Trenholm
declining an invitation to dine.
10 July 1866, photoprint of letter to Captain Charles
J. von Schwartz at Liverpool from P. G. T. Beauregard
in London concerning arrangements in connection with
Beauregard's and General Adam's departure for Paris
the next day. There is also a photoprint of part of a
letter to John R. Peacock from Ezra J. Warner about
the Beauregard letter with additional information
about von Schwartz.
22 April 1867, photostat of holograph will of Jubal
Early written in Toronto, Canada, and later cancelled
by him.
10 March 1876, photostat of letter to Colonel J. G.
Barnard, Corps of Engineers, New York, N.Y., from E.
D. Townsend, Adjutant General, War Department,
Washington, D.C., in response to Barnard's request for
information about the removal of G. T. Beauregard from
the superintendency of West Point in 1861.
11 March 1876, photostat of letter to G. T. Beauregard
from Col. J. G. Barnard about the former's removal
from the superintendency of West Point in 1861.
4 June 1882, photoprint of letter to Dr. S. H. Stone
in Comanche, Tex., from S. B. Maxay in the Senate
Chamber.
10 May 1887, photoprint of letter to Mrs. Thackeray,
Woodbury, N.J., from Sam Jones, Washington, D.C.,
formerly Major General, C.S.A., giving an outline of
his military assignments.
28 April 1889, photostat of letter to G. T. Beauregard
from M. S. O. Donnell in Malden, Mass., asking the
latter's opinion as to the practicability of the
Confederacy's continuing the struggle west of the
Mississippi after Lee's surrender in 1865. Included
is Beauregard's reply.
3 November 1890, photoprint of letter to General Henry
M. Gist, Cincinnati, from L. L. Lomax, Blacksburg,
Va., about Colonel James P. Major's Confederate
assignments.
24 April 1892, photoprint copy of autograph of E.
McNair of Hattiesburg, Miss.
March 1906, two typescript letters between Samuel
Mumma, Jr., and James F. Clark, regarding the burning
of Mumma House in Sharpsburg, Md., on 17 September
1862.
12 September 1954, typescript sermon by Reverend Leon
C. Burns of the Church of Christ in Columbia, S.C.,
denouncing efforts at desegregation.
Undated, typed statement of "Uncle Wiley" Howard,
body-servant of General States Rights Gist, telling of
the death from a wound in a Civil War battle and
burial of General Gist. Taken from Gist Family
History by Wilson Gee of Charlottesville, Va., 1934.
Undated (12 September), photoprint of letter to Ed. De
Leon from Raphael Semmes, Paris, accepting a dinner
invitation.
Series 2. Pictures
1862 and undated. 2 items.
Reproductions of photographs in the possession of Myra
McKissack of Spring Hill, Tenn., of officers of the C.S.A. who
were associated with General Hood.
P-1895/1 Copy of photograph of Major Nathaniel Cheairs of
Spring Hill, Tenn., who hosted a breakfast for
Governor Isham G. Harris, General Hood and staff,
Generals Cleburne, Cheatham, Brown, Bate, and
others on 30 November 1864, taken in 1862.
P-1895/2 Copy of photograph of Captain Absalom Thompson of
Spring Hill, Tenn., whose home was headquarters of
General Hood on 29 November 1864, n.d.