Inventory of the John C. Pemberton Papers, 1814-1942
Collection Number 586
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford), b. 1893.
- Title
- John C. Pemberton Papers, 1814-1942 (bulk 1922-1941).
- Call Number
- 586
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 250 items (1.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John C. Pemberton Papers, #586, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Authors, American--Research--New York (State)
- Pemberton family.
- Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford), 1814-1881.
- Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford), b. 1893.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
- Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.
Biographical Note
John C. Pemberton was an author of New York; grandson of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton (1814-1891).
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The collection includes papers about Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton, Pennsylvania-born Confederate officer who commanded at Vicksburg. Included is correspondence, 1922-1941, of John C. Pemberton III (b. 1893) of New York about his grandfather's military career and the biography he published, Pemberton, Defender of Vicksburg (1942). Also included are manuscript drafts of the biography, a variety of collected material about General Pemberton, and some 19th-century correspondence of the Pemberton family.