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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William H. Sims diary and Papers #1403, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for filming by Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala., in November 1947.

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• Confederate States of America. Army. Tombigbee Rangers.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Plantations--Alabama--Management.
• Sims, William H., 1820-1890.
• Slavery--Alabama.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Papers include instructions, 1857, to an overseer in Alabama concerning the management of slaves and a fragment of minutes of the first meeting of the Tombigbee Rangers, C.S.A., of which William Henry Sims of Mississippi was 1st sergeant. The diary was kept by William Henry Sims during his imprisonment in a Union Army hospital and military prisons in Tennessee and Kentucky. There are almost daily entries concerning prison conditions, groups interned there, soldier attitudes at the war's end, arrangements for taking loyalty oaths, and so forth. In addition to the diary, there are a few poems, addresses, and miscellaneous notes.