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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the C. Bayard Springer Diary, #3270-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Typed copy produced by the University of North Carolina Library, February 1957.

Location of Originals

Original owned by Fort Macon (N.C.) State Park, Atlantic Beach, N.C., in 1957.

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.

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• Diaries.
• Fort Macon (N.C.)
• New Bern (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Roanoke Island (N.C.)--History--Capture, 1862.
• Soldiers--United States--Diaries.
• Springer, C. Bayard, fl. 1862.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army. New Jersey Regiment, 9th (1861-1865)

C. Bayard Springer (fl. 1862) was an officer in the Union army who served with Company I, 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers in various North Carolina locations.

The collection includes a typed transcription of the diary of Lieutenant C. Bayard Springer, of the 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, while stationed on Roanoke Island and around New Bern, N.C., January-July 1862. Springer briefly recounted the capture of Roanoke Island, the surrender of Fort Macon, skirmishes, alarms, disease, mail and pay received, deaths, weather, picket duty and expeditions, money borrowed, and other matters. Additional locations specifically mentioned in the diary include Pamlico Sound, Nags Head, Havelock Station, and Newport, N.C.