Inventory of the John Dudley Tatum Letters, 1855-1862

Collection Number 3279-z


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
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Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Tatum, John Dudley, 1839-1862.
Title
John Dudley Tatum Letters, 1855-1862.
Call Number
3279-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
43 items.
Abstract
Letters from Tatum to his sisters in Milledgeville, Ga., while he was a student at Mercer College (now Mercer University), then at Penfield, Ga., 1855-1858, and at the University of North Carolina, 1859-1861, discussing school life and social activities; as a teacher in Alabama and Arkansas, discussing social customs, the surrounding countryside, and Arkansas's secession; and while in the Confederate Army, 1861-1862, as a member of Company E, 48th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, stationed near Savannah Ga., discussing camp life and preparations for the city's defense, and in Tennessee. Tatum was killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro, 1862. In his letters, he expressed great interest in his sisters' education and included comments about their deportment and letter-writing.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1957
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 John Dudley Tatum Letters, #3279-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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Alabama--Social life and customs.
Arkansas--Social life and customs.
Brothers and sisters--Southern States--History--19th century.
College students--Southern States--Social life and customs.
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 48th. Company E.
Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
Mercer University--Students--History--19th century.
Savannah (Ga.)--History--19th century.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
Tatum family.
Tatum, John Dudley, 1839-1862.
Teachers--Southern States--History--19th century.
Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
Women--Education--Georgia--History--19th century.
Women--Southern States--Conduct of life.
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Collection Overview

Letters from Tatum to his sisters in Milledgeville, Ga., while he was a student at Mercer College (now Mercer University), then at Penfield, Ga., 1855-1858, and at the University of North Carolina, 1859-1861, discussing school life and social activities; as a teacher in Alabama and Arkansas, discussing social customs, the surrounding countryside, and Arkansas's secession; and while in the Confederate Army, 1861-1862, as a member of Company E, 48th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, stationed near Savannah Ga., discussing camp life and preparations for the city's defense, and in Tennessee. Tatum was killed at the Battle of Murfreesboro, 1862. In his letters, he expressed great interest in his sisters' education and included comments about their deportment and letter-writing.