Inventory of the William Laurence Saunders Papers, 1712-1907
Collection Number 2658
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/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Saunders, William Laurence, 1835-1891.
- Title
- William Laurence Saunders Papers, 1712-1907.
- Call Number
- 2658
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 1,200 items (4.0 linear feet).
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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 William Laurence Saunders Papers, #2658, 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.
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 46th.
- Diaries.
- Episcopal School of North Carolina.
- Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862.
- Historians--North Carolina--Correspondence.
- Jarvis, Thomas Jordan, 1836-1915.
- Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
- Martin, François-Xavier, 1762-1846.
- North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Sources.
- Roanoke Island (N.C.)--History--Capture, 1862.
- Saunders, William Laurence, 1835-1891.
- Schools--North Carolina--Raleigh--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
Lawyer, colonel of the 46th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America, newspaper editor, secretary-treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, and secretary of state of North Carolina, 1879-1891.
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Saunders accumulated most of these papers in the process of compiling and editing the "Colonial Records of North Carolina" (Raleigh, 1886-1891). Personal items include Civil War letters and papers pertaining to his Confederate Army service in North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, and his participation in the battles for Roanoke Island, 1862, at Fredericksburg, 1862, and at Charleston, 1863; diaries, 1867-1868 and 1879- 1881, containing brief entries; bank books; and correspondence relating to his historical research and other activities, including two items concerning to the Ku-Klux Klan. Historical materials include contemporary copies of the legislative journals of North Carolina, 1749-1764; copies of reports of the royal governors, 1768-1771; financial and other records, 1833-1837, of the Episcopal School of North Carolina at Raleigh; a volume of notes and manuscripts pertaining to the early history of North Carolina collected by François-Xavier Martin; two long letters, 1888, written by former North Carolina governor Thomas J. Jarvis containing his recollections of North Carolina history and politics; and scattered miscellaneous notes related to state history.