Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hartwell Percy Spain Diary, #3467-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm of a typed transcription of the diary, edited, with an introduction and notes, by James Reed, 1971, is available. Copyflo prints made from that microfilm are also on file.

Acquisitions Information

Loan and gift 1960; 1971

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Darlington Guards.
• Darlington (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Land we love (Charlotte, N.C.)
• Morris Island (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Reed, James.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Spain, Hartwell Percy, 1840-1864.
• Sullivans Island (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

Hartwell Percy Spain was a volunteer Confederate soldier in the Darlington Guards on duty around Charleston, S.C.

The collection is Spain's wartime diary, 3 January to 17 March and 4 August 1861 (about 75 pages); and the April 1867 issue of the "The Land We Love," a magazine published in Charlotte, N.C. The diary consists of a detailed narrative of Spain's daily life on Sullivan Islands and Morris Island, and at Darlington, S.C., including notes about his opinions and feelings, and descriptions of his surroundings. It also includes poems and miscellaneous memoranda.