Inventory of the Lewis Neale Whittle Papers, 1826-1919
Collection Number 777
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Whittle, Lewis Neale, fl. 1820-1880.
- Title
- Lewis Neale Whittle Papers, 1826-1919 (bulk 1834-1872).
- Call Number
- 777
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 800 items (1.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Lewis Neale Whittle Papers, #777, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Clergy--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Finance.
- Elliott, Stephen, 1806-1866.
- Episcopal Church--Southern States--Clergy--History--19th century.
- Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
- Family--Ireland--Social life and customs.
- Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
- Gregg, Alexander, 1819-1893.
- Griffin family.
- Griffin, Daniel, 1807-1866.
- Irish Americans--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Potter, Richard.
- Powers family.
- Railroads--Georgia--History--19th century.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
- United States. Navy--Officers--Correspondence.
- Whittle family.
- Whittle, Francis McNeece, 1823-1902.
- Whittle, Lewis Neale, fl. 1820-1880.
- Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
Biographical Note
Lewis Neale Whittle (fl. 1820-1880) was a native of Mecklenburg County, Va., who settled in Georgia in 1836 and eventually lived in Macon. Whittle started out as an engineer connected with railroad building, but turned to the practice of law; he served as a Confederate Army officer.
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The collection contains family and business letters, mainly 1834- 1872, of Lewis Neale Whittle and his wife, Sarah (Powers) Whittle, and of Sarah's sister, Mary (Powers) Griffin, and her husband, Daniel Griffin (1807-1866), of Columbus, Ga. Griffin was associated with railroad building and other enterprises. Letters to the Whittles were written by family in Virginia and Georgia. Family members included planters, naval officers, and Episcopal clergy, especially Stephen Elliott (1806-1866), Alexander Gregg (1819-1893), and Bishop Francis M. Whittle (1823-1902), and these activities are reflected in the correspondence. Griffin family materials include letters, 1858-1859, to Richard Potter of Macon, Ga., whose connection is unclear. Potter was an Irish immigrant and the letters to him are from his family in Ireland. There are also letters from Daniel Griffin describing a steamboat trip, 1849, and while on an extended business trip to New York and the upper Midwest, 1857. Civil War materials include letters to Whittle concerning organizing and financing a Confederate regiment. Other family members served in the Confederate Army and wrote from various places in Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia, and many letters were exchanged among the women of the family. Postwar letters are scattered in date and content.