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Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-172

Scope and Contents

Papers of the Dr. T. F. Wood family of Wilmington, NC. Includes Dr. Woods's Civil War recollections, correspondence, writings of Dr. Edward Jenner Wood, and genealogy of the Wood family.

Dates: Undetermined

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Edmund McCaffray Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-166

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence and documents by and about Civil War General Robert E. Lee, his wife Mary Custis Lee, his nephew Fitzhugh Lee, and additional Civil War contemporaries. Content varies from updates on medical care to military requests for promotions and reimbursements. It spans from the height of the war in 1863 to post-Reconstruction in 1885, and largely originates to and from Virginia, of where Robert E. Lee was in command. A selection of the letters focuses on his...

Dates: 1863-1885

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Ellen Douglas Bellamy Journal

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-067

Scope and Contents This collection consists entirely of photocopies of pages from a journal or school exercise book kept by Miss Ellen Douglas Bellamy during the Civil War. Some time later, possibly in the 1870s, the journal was used as a scrapbook and printed clippings were pasted over the handwritten text. The collection includes copies of pages both before and after clippings were stripped away.The later clippings are primarily selections from popular magazines and are characteristic of...

Dates: 1861-1863 (photocopies)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Emancipation Anniversary Sermon Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-366

Content Description This collection contains a sermon written around 1898 regarding 35 years of slavery emancipation, first initiated during the United States Civil War in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. The unidentified author speaks at length about the contemporary struggles of Black Americans--referred to in the sermon as "colored people," their contributions and representation throughout United States history and to civilization at large, and the responsibilities they...

Dates: circa 1898

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Fort Caswell Telegraph Log

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-138

Scope and Contents This collection contains a log of telegraphs sent from Smithville (Southport), Fort Caswell, and Wilmington, North Carolina from January 1863 through May 1863. These telegraphs reveal food shortages, lack of supplies, and war updates involving the Confederacy, primarily in these three North Carolina forts. Battles were not being fought at these forts during these dates, but it is possible to understand from this document what conditions were like and how the armies responded to successes and...

Dates: 1863 January-May

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor Biographies

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-039

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the biographies of two prominent Wilmingtonians, General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor. Both items are photocopies of the original. MacRae served with the Confederacy in the Civil War and worked as a civil engineer for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Taylor served as a community and civic leader, and in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson named him the U.S. Collector of Customs for the Wilmington Port.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Governor John W. Ellis Proclamation

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-041

Scope and Contents

A copy of a rare broadside calling the North Carolina legislature into special session was issued by Gov. John W. Ellis on April 17, 1861. The session was called as a result of Abraham Lincoln's call to arms "for the invasion of the peaceful homes of the South....." Only one original is known to exist (according to the donor) from which this copy was made.

Dates: 1861 April 17 (photocopy)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

High Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-048

Scope and Contents

Thirteen xerographic copies of letters sent to James and Elizabeth Gore High of Whiteville, North Carolina are contained in this collection. The letters were sent to them by their sons Daniel Pinckney High (known as D.P. or Pink), John H. High, and William J. High during the Civil War. James High also received letters from family friends, William H. Best and William R. Richardson, both of Whiteville.

Dates: 1861-1865 (photocopies)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Howell Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-062

Scope and Contents

This collection contains two copies of letters written from William Howell to Lawson Howell in October 1863; a copy of a letter from W.H. Spurlin to his cousins; a copy of a Company Muster Roll for Wm. M. Howell, 5 Regiment South Carolina State Troops; a copy of The Confederate States of America, Officers' Pay Account for Lieutenant W. Howell; copies of Furlough slips for Lawson Howell; and a copy of the Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing for Lawson Howell.

Dates: 1863-1864 (photocopies)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

James R. Womble Civil War Letter

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-043

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter written by James R. Womble, a Confederate soldier, to his father, Thomas Womble. Womble was a laborer in Company A, 2nd Battalion, North Carolina Local Defense troops, of the Arsenal Guard. His letter is dated January 20, 1865. It was written from the City Courthouse of Wilmington and describes the fall of Fort Fisher.

Dates: 1865 January 20

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

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Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood Family Papers

Edmund McCaffray Collection

Ellen Douglas Bellamy Journal

Emancipation Anniversary Sermon Collection

Fort Caswell Telegraph Log

General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor Biographies

Governor John W. Ellis Proclamation

High Family Papers

Howell Family Papers

James R. Womble Civil War Letter

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