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Anna Sherman Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-157

Scope and Contents

This collection of original and photocopied items is comprised of correspondence and newspaper clippings encompassing nearly 100 years, from 1849 to 1938. Especially of note is the correspondence dating from the time of the U.S. Civil War 1861- 1865. The letters paint a poignant image of life in the confederacy.

Dates: 1849-1938

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Civil War Era Newsprints

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-286

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of illustrations from Civil War era newspapers including Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, and Illustrated London News. Images printed in the newspapers are listed by the caption of the main illustration with page numbers and/or dates when known. Illustrations in this collection focus on the Civil War as it happened in coastal North...

Dates: 1861-1875, undated

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

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

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

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

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Anna Sherman Collection

Civil War Era Newsprints

Fort Caswell Telegraph Log

Howell Family Papers

Major General William Wing Loring Proclamation

Stephen Graham Presidential Pardon

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