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[Identification of item], in the David Urquhart Letter and Book #5254-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift of Dorothy Ingram in July 2004 (Acc. 100313).

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• Basso, Hamilton, 1904-1964.
• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Jordan, Thomas.
• Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Urquhart, David.

Lieutenant Colonel David Urquhart from Louisiana was the chief aide-de-campe of Gen. Braxton Bragg in the Civil War. Urquhart was with General Thomas Jordan, General G. T. Beauregard's chief of staff, during the Battle of Shiloh, 6-7 April 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.

The collection is a letter, dated 25 August 1880, from Lieutenant Colonel David Urquhart to General Thomas Jordan describing the events of the Battle of Shiloh. At the end of the letter there is a penciled note from General G. T. Beauregard indicating his agreement with Urquhart's presentation of the events of the battle. The letter was enclosed in a copy of Hamilton Basso's biography Beauregard: The Great Creole (1933), inscribed by Basso to Lanier Branson, 23 July 1933.