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Ashe Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-320

Scope and Contents This collection contains the biographical documents, familiy histories, diaries, works of poetry, genealogical lists, and photographs of the Ashe family of North Carolina. Most of the materials in this collection consist of photocopies or typed transcripts, but it does contain original diaries, letters, and photographs.The original diaries were written by Henrietta Perkins and Sarah Anne Ashe during the late 1840s and early 1850s. Sarah's diary focused on the tragedies of...

Dates: 1672-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1852-1887

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

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

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

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

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

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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Ashe Family Papers

Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood Family Papers

High Family Papers

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Mrs. C.A. Council Letter

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