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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 Andrew J. Sproul Papers, #1877, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. John Flannery of McCain, N.C., July 1951.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Family--Ireland--Social life and customs.
• Immigrants--Ohio--History--19th century.
• Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Irish Americans--Ohio--History--19th century.
• Mississippi River Valley--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• Sproul, Andrew J., fl. 1845-1865.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 16th (1861-1864)
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Andrew J. Sproul (fl. 1845-1865) was an immigrant from Ireland who settled in Ohio in 1851. During the Civil War he served in the 16th Ohio Regiment, United States Army, at Vicksburg, Miss., and elsewhere on the lower Mississippi River.

The collection includes letters received by Andrew J. Sproul from members of his family in Ireland, concerning family and neighborhood affairs, crops, prices, and other matters; letters, 1861-1863, from Sproul to his wife while he was serving in the 16th Ohio Regiment concerning camps, neighborhoods, comrades, fighting, responses to the Emancipation Proclamation, and "rebel" attitudes of some Union soldiers; miscellaneous accounts and memoranda; and a few photographs.

• Photographs (PF-1877/1)