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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mary Unity Pendleton Scrapbook #5493, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from William W. McLendon in May 2011 (Acc. 101428).

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• Confederate States of America--Miscellanea.
• Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894--Death and burial.
• Families--Virginia--Photographs.
• Families--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Louisa County (Va.)--History.
• Louisa County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Pendleton family.
• Pendleton, Mary Unity, 1858-1944.
• Postcards.
• Richmond (Va.)--History.
• Richmond (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Scrapbooks.
• Women--Virginia--History.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

Mary Unity Pendleton was born in Louisa County, Va., on 28 January 1858. She did not marry. Pendleton died in 1944.

The collection is Pendleton's scrapbook containing materials dated 1883-1924. Included are clippings of inspirational articles, poems, and other writings; several dozen photographs of Pendletons and other family members; news clippings chiefly related to the Confederacy, soldiers, and the Civil War; a small piece of grey cloth labeled "Confederate Grey Piece of pall from Gen. Early's coffin"; and postcards related to Richmond, Va., Robert E. Lee, Woodrow Wilson, and World War I.