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[Identification of item], in the Sallie Rowan Saufley Papers, #2867, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Acquisitions Information

Gift 1952

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• Families--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Fort Delaware (Del.)
• Kentucky--History--1865-
• Law students--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Naval aviation--History--20th century.
• Navy-yards and naval stations--Florida--Pensacola--History--20th century.
• Practice of law--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Rowan, Stokeley Donelson, fl. 1867.
• Saufley, Micah C., 1842-1910.
• Saufley, Richard Caswell, d. 1916.
• Saufley, Sallie Rowan, b. 1847.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States Naval Academy--Students--History--20th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States. Navy--Aviation--History--20th century.
• United States. Navy--Officers--History--20th century.

Sallie Rowan Saufley, daughter of Stokeley Donelsen Rowan of McMinnville, Tenn., married Micah C. Saufley (1842-1910), lawyer of Monticello and Stanford, Ky., in 1867.

The collection is letters Sallie Rowan Saufley received from family members. It includes letters, 1864-1867, from Micah C. Saufley before the two married, describing his experiences as a Confederate soldier imprisoned at Fort Delaware, Del., his law studies and practice in Louisville and Monticello, Ky., and postwar conflicts of northern and southern sympathizers in Kentucky, and letters from Sallie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stokeley Donelson Rowan, in McMinnville, Tenn., after she married in 1867. Also included are letters, 1907-1916, from her son, Richard Caswell Saufley, United States naval officer, as a student at the United States Naval Academy, at sea, and as an aviator at Pensacola, Fla., about his military activities, his opinion of political affairs, and other matters.