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[Identification of item], in the Zeb Vance Walser Papers, #1074, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1946

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• Confederate States of America--Officials and employees--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Congress--Biography.
• Historians--North Carolina.
• Law students--Michigan--History--19th century.
• Law--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
• Taxation--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• University of Michigan--Students--History--19th century.
• Walser, Zeb Vance, 1863-1940.

Lawyer, public official, and historian, of Lexington, N.C.

Papers of Walser consisting chiefly of notes, writings, correspondence, and pictures gathered in biographical research in the 1920s about the North Carolina members of the Confederate Congress and other Confederate officials. Volumes include ten books of Walser's lecture notes as a University of Michigan law student, 1885-1886; a book of official letters received while he was a deputy federal internal revenue collector at Lexington, N.C., 1891-1892; historical and political scrapbooks; and other items.