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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Asa John Wyatt Diary, #804-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. John H. Stevens of Asheville, N.C., March 1931.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 21st.
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1862.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wyatt, Asa John, 1829-1862.

• Asa John Wyatt Diary, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Asa John Wyatt (1829-1862) was a Confederate officer in Company I, 21st Regiment, Virginia Infantry, and fought in northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Wyatt was wounded at the Battle of Cedar Run on 9 August 1862 and died the next day.

The collection is a typed transcription of the diary of Asa John Wyatt's Confederate service as an officer in Company I, 21st Regiment, Virginia Infantry, while fighting in northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. Wyatt was wounded at the Battle of Cedar Run on 9 August 1862 and died the next day.