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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894. Papers, 1857-1893.

Title: Papers, 1857-1893.

Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance including a letter, 1857, from Vance to the editors of the National Intelligencer supporting the claim of Elisha Mitchell to have been the first to measure the peak in western North Carolina later called Mt. Mitchell; letter, 1858, to D.F. Caldwell on national and state politics; letter, 1863, to Vance as governor of North Carolina from Kemp P. Battle, president of the Chatham Railroad, reporting difficulties in the construction of the road and requesting changes in the railroad's charter and a loan from the state; and Vance's subsequent letter to R.S. Donnell, speaker of the House of Commons of the North Carolina legislature, requesting favorable action to Battle's requests. Also contains a letter, 1894, from Charles N. Vance, son of Zebulon, concerning the location of a new grave for his father; and an undated clipping from the Raleigh (N.C.) Advocate quoting a letter from Rev. R.A. Young on Vance's religious preferences.

ArchivalResource: 45 items.

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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894. Zebulon Baird Vance papers, 1824-1915.

Title: Zebulon Baird Vance papers, 1824-1915.

The collection is chiefly political correspondence, 1877-1894, concerning state and national politics, Democratic Party actions, and constituent affairs. Topics include political patronage; railroad matters, especially of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad and the Western North Carolina Railroad; state institutions; tariff and internal revenue laws; the Danville, Va., race riot of 1883; the Blair education bills of 1886 and 1888; presidential elections; the rise of the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance; and the remonetization of silver. There are also business papers related to Vance's real estate, nickel mining, and lumber interests in Buncombe and Mecklenburg counties, N.C. Scattered Civil War items pertain to the secession crisis, Vance's brief service as a colonel of the 26th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and his gubernatorial activities. After 1894, materials are chiefly of the business and personal correspondence of Vance's oldest son, Charles N. Vance, especially concerning his business interests in the Jellico Mining Company. Some 1895 letters relate to Kemp P. Battle's attempt at writing a biography of Zebulon Vance. Additions to the collection include chiefly correspondence of Zebulon Baird Vance and his son Charles N. Vance, photographs of the Vance family, and various legal papers and land deeds. Correspondence concerns constituent affairs, political appointments, and other political issues of the 1890s. Letters from Vance's second wife, Florence S. Vance, to Charles N. Vance (1894) concern Zebulon's declining health, and additional correspondence and legal papers relate to an inheritance dispute between Charles and his stepmother Florence. Also included is a 28 July 1863 letter from Confederate soldier William T. Dickinson to Governor Vance describing casualties suffered by the 11th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg; more correspondence with Kemp P. Battle; letters and other items relating to North Carolina governor and senator Thomas Jordan Jarvis; and a 27 December 1862 letter written by Vance to South Carolina Governor Milledge L. Bonham asking him to send a letter from Colonel J.W. Hayne that was accidentally omitted from previous correspondence and congratulating Bonham on his recent promotion.

ArchivalResource: About 6300 items (7.5 linear feet)

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