Inventory of the Walter T. Scott Papers, 1877-1878 and undated
Collection Number 1887-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Scott, Walter T., 1827-1879.
- Title
- Walter T. Scott Papers, 1877-1878 and undated.
- Call Number
- 1887-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 5 items.
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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 Walter T. Scott Papers, #1887-z, 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.
- Family--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
- Judges--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- Lawyers--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- New Orleans (La.)--History.
- Scott, Katherine Kirkwood.
- Scott, Walter T., 1827-1879.
- Ship Island (Miss.)--History--19th century.
- Slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--Louisiana.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
Biographical Note
Lawyer and judge of New Orleans, La.
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A four-volume diary of Walter T. Scott and an account of an incident in his life. The diary, April 1877-March 1878, describes Scott's daily family and judicial activities in New Orleans and includes reminiscences of his imprisonment at Ship Island, Miss., during the Civil War. "The Case of the Runaway Slave" is an account by Katherine Kirkwood Scott of how, in 1855, Scott secured the freedom of Salome or Sally Miller or Muller, a white woman who had been a slave from infancy.