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Joseph J. Davis and Family Private Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-065

Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of letters and notes from Joseph Jonathan Davis to his wife Katherine Elizabeth Shaw. Many of the letters in this collection are referenced in T.H. Pearce’s, They Fought: The Story of Franklin County Men in the Years 1861-1865. Davis’s letters to his wife discuss his experience during the Civil War regarding soldiers, living conditions, weather, etc. Many of his letters include requests to his wife for supplies and also...

Dates: 1862-1894 (photocopies)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Laura Harriss Howell Music Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-MS-098

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the personal music library of Laura Harriss Howell and includes opera librettos, music books, and sheet music meant to be sung and played on piano, organ or guitar by musicians in the home. Published primarily in the first half of the nineteenth century but including some Confederate imprints, the music reflects the parlor music tastes of the period and contains popular part-singing classics of the day.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Lazenby Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-061

Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, ephemera, periodicals and advertisments, and miscellaneous genealogical documents. Of significance in this collection are two documents relating to the end of the Civil War and the Confederacy, including an Oath of Loyalty to the Union and a President's Warrant of Pardon for Mary M. Jones.

Dates: 1831-1941

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Lower Cape Fear Region Maps

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-023

Scope and Contents

This collection contains three maps of New Hanover county. Two maps document the topography and location of sunken blockade runners during the Civil War; the third map is of New Hanover county in 1949.

Dates: 1886-1949

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Major General William Wing Loring Proclamation

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-073

Scope and Contents

A rare broadside issued September 14, 1862 by Army of the Confederate States "To the People of Western Virginia" by command of Major General William Wing Loring.

Dates: 1862 September 14

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Mrs. C.A. Council Letter

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-049

Overview

Letter to Mrs. C.A. Council from her unnamed brother dated 17 February 1862. In the letter, Council's brother describes the location where his regiment is stationed during the Civil War.

Dates: 1862 February 17 (photocopy)

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Richard Laracy Letter

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-137

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter dated 1914, written by Richard Laracy, veteran, recounting his Civil War experiences to a friend. The letter outlines Laracy's experience at the Battle at Gettysburg. He was a Union soldier in Culter's 1st Division, 1st Corps. Included are the original letter and a photocopy.

Dates: 1914 January 09

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Stephen Graham Presidential Pardon

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-006

Scope and Contents On August 21, 1865, President Andrew Johnson pardoned Stephen Graham of Duplin County, North Carolina, for “taking part in the late rebellion against the Government of the United States…” Signed in Washington D.C., by Johnson and his Acting Secretary of State, it was a “full pardon and amnesty for all offenses by him committed, arising from participation, direct or implied, in the said rebellion.”Amnesty was to take effect on the day Graham took the loyalty oath prescribed in the...

Dates: 1865 May 29

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

The Black Poet Manuscript

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-094

Scope and Contents The Black Poet was the 1865 annouced title of a work to be published that was to contain "a concise history of the life" of George Moses Horton, bard and recently freed enslaved individual. Richard Walser used the 1865 title for his 1996 work on Horton, since no evidence exists that the 1865 book was ever written. Walser wrote his "concise history" during part of a year he spent on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Claude Howell created the drawings for the book. This collection contains the...

Dates: 1966

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Thomas J. Armstrong Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-001

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of letters written by Thomas J. Armstrong's son, Edward Hall Armstrong, during the Civil War. Also included are: a photograph of Edward, his officer commissions, and his book on military tactics, eulogies for Edward by various persons, a letter from Edward's body servant--an enslaved person named Moses, and miscellaneous letters and documents from other family members, including Thomas's boyhood reminiscences, a receipt for sale of an enslaved person, and...

Dates: 1859-1885

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

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Joseph J. Davis and Family Private Papers

Laura Harriss Howell Music Collection

Lazenby Family Papers

Lower Cape Fear Region Maps

Major General William Wing Loring Proclamation

Mrs. C.A. Council Letter

Richard Laracy Letter

Stephen Graham Presidential Pardon

The Black Poet Manuscript

Thomas J. Armstrong Papers

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