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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.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 1982) available.

• Reel 1: Volume 43, Letters of Thomas J. Jarvis

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Agatha and Nena Saunders, 1939-1942.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• 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, Francois-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.

William Laurence Saunders (1835-1891) of North Carolina was a lawyer; colonel of the 46th North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America; editor of the Colonial Records of North Carolina; secretary-treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina; and secretary of state of North Carolina, 1879-1891.

The collection includes the papers of and collected by William Laurence Saunders, chiefly accumulated in the process of compiling and editing the Colonial Records of North Carolina. His papers 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. Collected materials include legal papers; land grants; deeds; a slave sale document; indentures; a document appointing William R. Davie to lieutenant colonel commandant, 1787; letters to General Davie from George Washington regarding the appointment of regional officers from N.C., 1798-1799; contemporary copies of the legislative journals of North Carolina, 1749-1764; copies of reports of the royal governors, 1768-1771; financial and other records of the Episcopal School of North Carolina at Raleigh, N.C., 1833-1837; notes and manuscripts pertaining to the early history of North Carolina collected by Francois-Xavier Martin; two long letters written by former North Carolina governor Thomas J. Jarvis containing his recollections of North Carolina history and politics, 1888; and scattered miscellaneous notes related to state history.

• Extra oversize papers (XOPF-2658/1)
• Special format image (SF-P-2658/1)
• Oversize volume (SV-2658/42)