Inventory of the Joseph Sams Papers, 1820-1896

Collection Number 4374


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
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
Sams, Joseph, d. 1865.
Title
Joseph Sams Papers, 1820-1896 (bulk 1861-1865).
Call Number
4374
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
40 items.
Abstract
Correspondence and other papers of Joseph Sams and members of his family, consisting mostly of letters from Joseph Sams to his wife, Polly Ann Crawford Sams, during the Civil War years. A native of Madison County, N.C., Sams was in the minority of Confederate sympathizers from that part of the state. Sams's letters to his wife Polly chronicle his hopes and fears for the the Southern cause from his arrival in Raleigh in 1861 to his capture at Yazoo City, Miss., in 1863; they include references to Confederate activities at Camp Haynesville, Elizabethton, Jackson, Charleston, Morristown, and Shelbyville, Tenn., and at Yazoo City, Miss. Sams fought with the 64th and 29th North Carolina regiments. Also included are a ciphering book, dated 19 June 1820, of Robert Benson Crawford, Joseph Sams's father-in-law, and a few letters of other members of the Sams and Crawford families, including letters from H. T. (Henry?) Crawford, R. B. Crawford's son, a Confederate soldier at Dalton, Ga., and Greeneville, Tenn., in 1864 and 1865.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1983
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Joseph Sams Papers, #4374, 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.

Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 29th.
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 64th.
Crawford, H. T.
Crawford, Robert Benson.
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.
Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Sams, Joseph, d. 1865.
Sams, Polly Ann Crawford.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Collection Overview

Correspondence and other papers of Joseph Sams and members of his family, consisting mostly of letters from Joseph Sams to his wife, Polly Ann Crawford Sams, during the Civil War years. A native of Madison County, N.C., Sams was in the minority of Confederate sympathizers from that part of the state. Sams's letters to his wife Polly chronicle his hopes and fears for the the Southern cause from his arrival in Raleigh in 1861 to his capture at Yazoo City, Miss., in 1863; they include references to Confederate activities at Camp Haynesville, Elizabethton, Jackson, Charleston, Morristown, and Shelbyville, Tenn., and at Yazoo City, Miss. Sams fought with the 64th and 29th North Carolina regiments. Also included are a ciphering book, dated 19 June 1820, of Robert Benson Crawford, Joseph Sams's father-in-law, and a few letters of other members of the Sams and Crawford families, including letters from H. T. (Henry?) Crawford, R. B. Crawford's son, a Confederate soldier at Dalton, Ga., and Greeneville, Tenn., in 1864 and 1865.