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Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material related to the U.S. Army's Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina. The terminal functions as a transport location for various military supplies. Contents include operational documents of the terminal, newspaper clippings, maps and archaelogical surveys of MOTSU, and safety, environmental, and preservation reports. The bulk of the collection is dated between 1952 and 1992.It also includes...
Dates:
1767-1888 (photocopies), 1911-2000; Majority of material found within 1952-1992
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
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
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
Wilmington, NC and the Lower Cape Fear Area During the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-026
Scope and Contents
Excerpts of letters, diaries, papers, and published materials comprise the body of this research collection, which relate specifically to Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear (LCF) during the Civil War. Subjects include troop movements, civilian life, shipping, prisoners of war, and military engagements. Wilmington was the last Confederate port to be captured; blockading and blockade runners and the defense and capture of Fort Fisher are especially well represented. Items of local...
Dates:
1855, 1861-1865, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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- Families -- North Carolina -- New Hanover County 1
- Fort Caswell (N.C.) 1
- Fort Johnston (Southport, N.C.) 1
- Fort Macon (N.C.) -- Siege, 1862 1
- Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization, 1
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- Armstrong, Edward Hall, 1841-1864 1
- Armstrong, Thomas James, 1813-1877 1
- Ashe, John Baptista, -1734 1
- Ashe, Samuel A. (Samuel A'Court), 1840-1938 1
- Ashe, Samuel, 1725-1813 1
- Ashe, William Shepperd, 1814-1862 1
- Best, William H. 1
- Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th 1
- Ellis, John Willis, 1820-1861 1
- Evans, Anchram Harris, 1838-1911 1
- Evans, Elizabeth Robinson Kelly, 1844-1910 1
- Graham, Stephen, 1822-1900 1
- High, Daniel Pinkney, 1843-1912 1
- High, James, 1808-1876 1
- High, John Homer 1
- High, William J., 1842-1862 1
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 1
- McCarthy, Gerald, 1858-1915 1
- North Carolina. Governor (1859-1861 : Ellis) 1
- Richardson, William R., 1823-1895 1
- United States Army Transportation Terminal (Sunny Point, N.C.) 1
- Womble, James R. 1
- Womble, Thomas 1
- Wood, Edward J. (Edward Jenner), 1878-1928 1
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