Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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JOSEPH WALTERS LETTERS
Inventory

Abstract:   Joseph Walters of Norfolk, Va., was a quartermaster
         and later major in the W. H. F. Lee Brigade of Stuart’s
         13th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A.  His parents were Bray
         Baker Walters and Martha Caroline Riddick,  who owned
         and operated the National Hotel in Norfolk.
            Typed transcriptions of letters written by Joseph
         Walters to his mother and his sisters, Lucy and Mary
         Walters. The originals of the letters have been lost.
         The letters, 1862-1864, discuss camp life and the lives
         of Walters’s family and friends from Norfolk. He also
         wrote in some detail about the Battle of Fredericksburg,
         about a kidnapping attempt, and about his life in the
         army in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Also included is
         one letter to Lucy Walters, 1866, from Benjamin Meade
         discussing the state of the post-war South and
         correspondence, 1917, between Brigadier General E. V.
         White and A. W. Littlefield discussing the Confederate
         reunion in Washington, D.C., in that year.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Confederate States of America. Army—Military life.
   Confederate States of America. Army—Officers—Correspondence.
   Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry, 13th.
   Fredericksburg (Va.), Battle of, 1862.
   Southern States—History—1865-1877.
   United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Campaigns.
   Walters, Joseph.

Size:         About 25 items.

Date Span:    1862-1917.

Provenance:   Received from Mary Arthur Stoudemire of Chapel
              Hill, N.C., in September 1996 (Acc.96125).

Access:       No restrictions.

Copyright:    Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
              or their descendants, as stipulated by United
              States copyright law.

Folder 1         1862-1864
       2         1866, 1917