Inventory of the Thach Family Papers, 1859-1863

Collection Number 1102-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
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Thach family.
Title
Thach Family Papers, 1859-1863.
Call Number
1102-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
5 items.
Abstract
Typed transcriptions. Four letters of Robert H. Thach to his wife, Lila Coleman Thach, and a postwar reminiscence (19 pages) of Otis D. Smith of Alabama of his experiences in the Confederate army during the invasion of Maryland by John B. Gordon's Brigade, Confederate States of America., in 1862. Thach, with the 9th Alabama Regiment, wrote his wife, who was in Athens, Ala., about the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861, and personal matters.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Location of originals unknown.
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 Thach Family Papers, #1102-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--Biography.
Autobiographies--Alabama.
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861.
Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 9th.
Confederate States of America. Army. John B. Gordon's Brigade.
Maryland Campaign, 1862.
Maryland--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Smith, Otis D., fl. 1860.
Thach family.
Thach, Lila Coleman, fl. 1861.
Thach, Robert H., fl. 1850-1863.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Collection Overview

Typed transcriptions. Four letters of Robert H. Thach to his wife, Lila Coleman Thach, and a postwar reminiscence (19 pages) of Otis D. Smith of Alabama of his experiences in the Confederate army during the invasion of Maryland by John B. Gordon's Brigade, Confederate States of America., in 1862. Thach, with the 9th Alabama Regiment, wrote his wife, who was in Athens, Ala., about the first battle of Bull Run, July 1861, and personal matters.