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[Identification of item], in the E. M. Royall Papers, #1277, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Coast defenses--Georgia--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Medical supplies.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Surgeons.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Volunteer Infantry, 1st. Company M.
• Du Pre family.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--Description and travel.
• McIver family.
• Royall family.
• Royall, E. M. (Edward Manly), 1827-1915.
• South Carolina--Description and travel.
• South Carolina--Social life and customs.

Corporal, Coast Guard, 1861; Lieutenant, Sumter Artillery, 1862; Assistant Surgeon, King's Battalion, Artillery, Longstreet's Corps, 1863-1864 and 1865; Haskell's Battalion, Light Artillery, March 1865.

Microfilm of scattered family letters, 1821-1862, of the Royall, McIver, and Du Pre families of South Carolina; and Confederate military papers, 1863-1865, of Edward M. Royall, M.D. The family letters include, among others, one, 1858, describing a trip from Georgia to South Carolina in an omnibus and one, 1861, describing the fortifications and locations of troops on the Georgia coast and islands. Edward M. Royall's Confederate military papers include leave, assignment, and instructional papers, receipts and inventories for medical supplies, requisitions, and other items from Royall's service as assistant surgeon with King's Battalion, Artillery, Longstreet's Corps. Also included is an affidavit, 1928, concerning Royall's service from R. S. Venning, Confederate veteran.