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[Identification of item], in the Thomas Porter Weakley Papers, #2486, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• College students--Alabama--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Breckenridge's Division.
• Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Physicians--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Plantation owners--Alabama.
• Tennessee--Social life and customs.
• Weakley, Benjamin Franklin.
• Weakley, James H.
• Weakley, Thomas Porter, fl. 1860.
• Wesleyan University (Florence, Ala.)--Students--Social life and customs.

• Eliza Bedford Weakley Papers (#1605); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

MICROFILM ONLY. Civil War letters of Thomas Porter Weakley, a Confederate officer, apparently with the 2nd Brigade, Breckenridge's Division; letters from T. P. Weakley when he was a student at Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala., 1859, relating news of college, town, and family; correspondence of Benjamin Franklin Weakley, a physician in Nashville, Tenn.; and correspondence of James H. Weakley, a planter in Florence, Ala. Correspondence of B. F. Weakley and J. H. Weakley relates primarily to family matters and finances.