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Collection Number: 03695-z

Collection Title: Joseph H. Young Papers, 1864-1865.

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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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Size 30 items
Abstract Joseph H. Young (1832?-1867) of Mifflin County, Pa., was a federal soldier who served with the 184th Pennsylvania Regiment in Virginia during the Civil War. The collection includes Civil War letters of Young to and from his wife, Ann Eliza Young, while he was with the army near Richmond, Va., and Petersburg, Va., and while he was hospitalized; and some papers concerning Young's military service and application for pensions. Letters exchange news of friends in the service, contain requests for items from home, discuss possibility of leaves, and note the desertion of Confederate soldiers to the North. Letters during Young's hospitalization discuss his health, treatment, and the possibility of discharge.
Creator Young, Joseph H., 1832?-1867.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
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 Joseph H. Young Papers, #3695-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
Typed transcriptions of letters available.
Acquisitions Information
Purchased 1964.
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.
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Joseph H. Young (1832?-1867) of Mifflin County, Pa., was a federal soldier who served with the 184th Pennsylvania Regiment in Virginia during the Civil War.

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The collection includes Civil War letters of Joseph H. Young to and from his wife, Ann Eliza Young, while he was with the army near Richmond and Petersburg, Va., and while he was hospitalized; and some papers concerning Young's military service and application for pensions. Letters exchange news of friends in the service, contain requests for items from home, discuss possibility of leaves, and note the desertion of Confederate soldiers to the North. Letters during Young's hospitalization discuss his health, treatment, and the possibility of discharge.

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Processing Information

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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