Inventory of the Thomas Porter Weakley Papers, 1830-1864

Collection Number 2486


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Related Material
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Weakley, Thomas Porter, fl. 1860.
Title
Thomas Porter Weakley Papers, 1830-1864.
Call Number
2486
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
25 items.
Abstract
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.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Original returned to private owner in 1942.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Thomas Porter Weakley Papers, #2486, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

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.
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Related Material

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

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.