Inventory of the Joseph Hubbard Saunders Papers, 1777-1921
Collection Number 650
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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/
Back to Top
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Saunders, Joseph Hubbard, 1839-1885.
- Title
- Joseph Hubbard Saunders Papers, 1777-1921
- Call Number
- 650
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 800 items (0.5 linear feet).
Back to Top
Administrative Information
- 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 Joseph Hubbard Saunders Papers, #650, 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.
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--Officers--Correspondence.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 33rd.
- Cotton growing--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Cotton trade--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Episcopal Church--Clergy--North Carolina.
- Johnson Island Prison.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Orange County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
- Saunders, Joseph Hubbard, 1800-1839.
- Saunders, Joseph Hubbard, 1839-1885.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Related Material
-
See also William Laurance Saunders papers in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Biographical Note
Joseph Hubbard Saunders (1839-1885) of Orange County, N.C., was a planter and Confederate officer of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment, served in Virginia and eastern North Carolina, and was imprisoned at Johnsons Island, Ohio.
Back to TopCollection Overview
The bulk of the collection consists of family correspondence and business papers after the Civil War, but there is some Civil War material, including letters written home by Saunders while he was an officer of the 33rd North Carolina Regiment in Virginia and eastern North Carolina, and in prison at Johnsons Island, Ohio, and letters he received from other soldiers. Antebellum papers pertain to his mother's family, the Bakers of North Carolina, and to his father, also Joseph Hubbard Saunders (1800-1839), an Episcopal priest of North Carolina and Florida. Postwar material includes correspondence and accounts relating to cotton growing and marketing, including accounts with commission merchants, and personal accounts for lumber, groceries, furniture, and medical care.