Inventory of the Terry Family Papers, 1850-1896
Collection Number 1448-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Terry family.
- Title
- Terry Family Papers, 1850-1896
- Call Number
- 1448-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: About 50
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Administrative Information
- Alternate Form of Material
- Microfilm copy (filmed November 1973) available.
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Reel 1: Entire collection
- Processing Information
- Processed by: E. Ragan, October 1962
- Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2005
- Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Terry Family Papers #1448-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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Medical care.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 27th.
- Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
- Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
- Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Henry County (Ala.)--History.
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Military hospitals--Confederate States of America.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Terry, Joseph Green, d. 1868.
- Terry, Sarah, fl. 1863-1865.
- Terry family.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Biographical Note
Joseph Green Terry (d. 1868), a cotton and cane farmer from Henry County, Ala., served as a Confederate soldier with the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment. His wife, Sarah Terry, was in Henry County during the Civil War.
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The collection includes papers of Joseph Green Terry, Confederate soldier with the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment, cotton and cane farmer from Henry County, Ala., who died in 1868, and other members of the Terry family. Correspondence is chiefly between Terry and his wife Sarah Terry, 1863-1865, while he was a Confederate soldier in the General Hospital, Savannah, Ga., Camp Jackson, Danville, Va., Augusta, Ga., and Camp Sweet Water Church, S.C. Also included is scattered correspondence, 1855-1896, between Terry and a brother who was a soldier in Fredericksburg in 1863, and between Sarah in Henry County and relatives in Thomasville, Ga., Cain, Ga., Bratley, Ala., and Charleston, S.C., relating to family affairs. There are also two deeds dated 1850, grocery lists dated 1853 and 1896, a cotton bill dated 1858, and a general merchandise account for 1860.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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