Inventory of the George Washington Rains Papers, 1843-1949

Collection Number 1510-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
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
Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898.
Title
George Washington Rains Papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864).
Call Number
1510-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
50 items.
Abstract
United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of New York and Georgia. Papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the United States and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1951
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the George Washington Rains Papers, #1510-z, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Augusta (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
Confederate States of America. Army--Ordnance and ordnance stores.
Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883.
Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864.
Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877.
Rains family.
Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898.
United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
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Biographical Note

United States and Confederate army officer, educator, inventor, and author, of New York and Georgia.

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Collection Overview

Papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the United States and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains.