Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#1834
ISAAC BARTON ULMER PAPERS
Summary
Ulmer, Isaac Barton, 1842-1925.
Papers, 1838-1929 (bulk 1850s to 1890s).
218 items (0.5 linear ft.).
In small part microfilm of originals privately owned as of 1951.
Confederate soldier, of Demopolis, Ala.
Chiefly family correspondence, 1850s to 1890s, with some writings and
Ulmer, Johnston, and DuBrutz family records. The collection includes
letters from Ulmer to his family while he was at school in Green Spring,
Ala., and at Oglethorpe College, Talmage, Ga., 1859-1861, and while he was
serving with Co. A., 3rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A., in Tennessee,
1861-1865; and postwar letters exchanged between Ulmer, then in Marengo
County, Ala., and his mother, Abigail (Cromwell) Ulmer, who was living in
Choctaw County, Ala. Also included are manuscript writings by Ulmer about
his Civil War experiences, especially at the Battle of Shiloh, and
historical sketches by and about South Carolina members of the family
dating back to the Revolution.
Acquired, 1951-1959.
ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
College students--Georgia--Social life and customs--19th century.
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry Regiment, 3rd. Co.
A.
DuBrutz family.
Family--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
Johnston family.
Oglethorpe College (Talmage, Ga.)--Students--History--19th century.
Shiloh, Battle of, 1862.
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
South Carolina--Genealogy.
South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
Confederate.
Ulmer, Isaac Barton, 1842-1925.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry operations.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
Confederate.
Ulmer family.
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.