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[Identification of item], in the Charles J. Watson Papers, #3955, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 27th.
• McCauley family.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Orange County (N.C.)--History.
• Point Lookout (Md.)
• Robertson County (Tex.)--Economic conditions.
• Robertson County (Tex.)--Social conditions.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Texas--Economic conditions.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Washington (D.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Watson family.
• Watson, Charles J., d. 1873.

MICROFILM ONLY. Thirteen letters, 1862-1864, written by Watson to his parents and siblings while serving with the 27th North Carolina Regiment in North Carolina and Virginia, and as a prisoner in Washington, D.C., and Point Lookout, Md., chiefly discussing the welfare of Orange County, N.C., soldiers with brief references to fighting; seven postwar letters, 1869- 1873, from Watson in Robertson County, Tex., to members of his family, concerning economic and social conditions; and miscellaneous other items, including data on members of the Watson and McCauley families of Orange County.