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Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895. Charles Lanman papers, 1858-1859; 1868 [manuscript].

Title: Charles Lanman papers, 1858-1859; 1868 [manuscript].

Brief autobiographical sketches submitted to Lanman by members of Congress for inclusion in his "Dictionary of the United States Congress," first published in 1859. The sketches contain some unpublished material. Subjects include Thomas Bragg (1810-1872), Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859), Clinton Levering Cobb (1842-1879), Francis Burton Craige (1811-1875), John Thomas Deweese (1835-1906), John Adams Gilmer (1805-1868), Richard Clausell Puryear (1801-1867), Edwin Godwin Reade (1812-1894), William N. H. Smith (1812-1889), Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894), and Felix Walker (1753- 1828), by his grandson.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25264843 View

Bragg, John, 1806-1878. John Bragg papers, 1851-1887.

Title: John Bragg papers, 1851-1887.

Papers consisting mostly of political and constituent correspondence, 1851-1853, while Bragg was a Democratic U.S. representative, concerning Mobile, Alabama, and national politics, especially political appointments. Also included are some letters during the same period from John's brothers, Braxton (1817-1876), then a U.S. Army officer, and Thomas (1810-1872), governor and U.S. Senator of North Carolina, discussing political events in Washington, D.C., especially concerning the Army, and elections and politics in North Carolina. Also available are extensive papers relating to the management of John's cotton plantation in Lowndes County, Ala., 1866-1877.

ArchivalResource: 617 items (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24923910 View

Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875. William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

Title: William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

William A. Graham's correspondence with prominent persons about state and national politics. Correspondents include George E. Badger, Thomas Bragg, T. W. Brevard, James Buchanan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron, Henry Clay, Dorothea L. Dix, Stephen A. Douglas, James Fenimore Cooper, William Gaston, James Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, W. W. Holden, Sam Houston, William Preston Mangum, Charles Manly, Matthias E. Manly, Elisha Mitchell, B. F. Moore, James T. Morehead, J. Johnston Pettigrew, J. L. Pettigru, Leonidas Polk, Thomas Ruffin, James A. Seddon, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, David L. Swain, William Tryon, Martin Van Buren, Zebulon B. Vance, Hugh Waddell, Daniel Webster, and Jonathan Worth. Also included is material relating to legal business; the Graham family;iron foundry; plantations, slavery, and overseers in North Carolina and South Carolina; affairs at the University of North Carolina, the Revolutionary War history of North Carolina, and letters from sons serving as soldiers in the Confederate army. Later papers are of other Graham family members, especially Augustus Washington Graham, lawyer of Hillsborough, N.C., and Oxford, N.C. Volumes are personal accounts, school notebooks, and legal notes. Also included are typed carbon copies of letters, 1823-1877, to and from William A. Graham in this collection and in collections at other repositories that were compiled for an editing project in the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: About 14000 items (12.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23150419 View

Confederate States of America collection, 1861-1865

Title: Confederate States of America collection 1861-1865

Correspondence and official documents originating from various CSA government departments and from individual Confederate states, 1861-65. Includes correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Confederate cabinet members and congressmen, and other officials, as well as official reports of Civil War battles and events, estimates of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, special orders, forms, passes, receipts, bonds, tax records, and other documents. While the bulk of the material is administrative in nature, many of the documents, such as tax records and discharge papers, concern particular individuals, and there are a few letters from private citizens, such as one to President Davis from two women who offer to go behind enemy lines. The collection also includes designs for an alternate Confederate flag.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Linear Feet: 2.30

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.csa View

American Revolutionary War collection, 1775-1786 (inclusive).

Title: American Revolutionary War collection, 1775-1786 (inclusive).

An artificial collection of correspondence, payrolls, pay tables, receipts, commissions, and miscellanea including documents from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina military forces.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165672 View

Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan, 1820-1862. Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

Title: Papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch [manuscript], 1840-1913.

The papers of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, concern his congressional career and describe the political and social scene in Washington, D.C., including accounts of Preston S. Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner, the United States' plan to acquire Cuba, James Buchanan's visit to North Carolina, the election of 1860, the U.S. Treasury Department, and a dispute with Galusha A. Grow. The papers contain an 1840 letter, from Felix Grundy regarding U.S. fiscal policy, abolition, and other political matters; and an 1843 letter from David Levy Yulee regarding John C. Calhoun and Southern politics. Family papers including correspondence with his wife, Nancy "Nannie" Haywood (Blount) Branch, discuss family matters, traveling in the South, Civil War news, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and Florida social life. Civil War papers, 1860-1862, of Branch, concern the organization of the Confederate army, anti-Confederate sentiment in North Carolina, the defense of the North Carolina coast, the battle of New Bern, N.C., and the subsequent retreat, and problems with deserters and spies. Correspondence subsequent to joining Stonewall Jackson in Virginia describes Hanover Court House, Va., 2nd Bull Run, and the Seven Days' Battles, the Maryland Campaign, Josiah Gorgas, and Daniel Harvey Hill. A letter, 1 January 1862, from Thomas Bragg, Richmond, Va., regards the defense of North Carolina, especially Roanoke Island and Albemarle County (N.C.), and infighting among officers under Branch's command. A letter, 17 March 1862, from A.E. Burnside, New Bern, N.C., responds to an inquiry about Confederate casualties and prisoners in the battle of New Bern; and a letter, 20 March 1862, from Zebulon B. Vance, Kinston, N.C. reports those under Vance's command wounded and killed during the battle of New Bern. Correspondence, 1862 with J.P. Benjamin and George W. Randolph, regards promotions and a resignation. Correspondence, 1862, with Richard S. Ewell and Joseph E. Johnston concerns troop movements around Gordonsville, Va., and before the battle of Hanover Court House. Three letters, June 1862, between Branch and Robert E. Lee, concern the battle of Hanover Court House, Va.; and a letter, 26 June 1862, from Stonewall Jackson concerns troop movements.

ArchivalResource: 650 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647856338 View

Badham, William, b. 1835. Papers, 1817-1897; (bulk 1862-1870).

Title: Papers, 1817-1897; (bulk 1862-1870).

Family and business correspondence, accounts, and other papers, mainly for the years 1862-1870. Much of the correspondence is from Badham to his wife Louisa (Jones) Badham, including letters written while he was stationed near Petersburg, Va., and on Smith Island, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, during the Civil War. These contain price quotations on blockade goods, descriptions of army life, and comments on peace advocates in the Confederacy. Other letters, to William Badham, Sr., are political in nature. Business records include dry goods accounts, miscellaneous legal accounts, a teacher's register kept by Mrs. Badham, and accounts of the sale of furniture belonging to her father, John M. Jones. Correspondents include Thomas Bragg, M.E. Manly, John W. Moore, Kenneth Rayner, and George Reade.

ArchivalResource: 811 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19105973 View

Bragg Family. Photographs, [ca.1935].

Title: Photographs, [ca.1935].

Photographs, ca.1935, of five portraits of Bragg family men. There are photographs of Thomas Bragg, d.1851; John Bragg, Thomas Bragg, Alexander Bragg, and Braxton Bragg.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122284894 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, to Franklin Bacheller, 1860 Sept. 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, to Franklin Bacheller, 1860 Sept. 10.

Sending the address of Senator Mangum.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270133639 View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Thomas Bragg papers, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

Title: Thomas Bragg papers, 1861-1862 [manuscript].

Diary of Bragg during three periods: 3 January-1 March 1861, in Washington, D.C., as a U.S. senator from North Carolina during the secession crisis; 5 November 1861-9 April 1862, in Richmond, Va., as Confederate attorney general; and 11 April-7 November 1862, as a private citizen living at Petersburg, Va. The diary records congressional sessions and conversations with other politicians; Confederate cabinet meetings, but not Bragg's activites as attorney general; and reactions to war news.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25280938 View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Papers, 1842-1871.

Title: Papers, 1842-1871.

Political and legal correspondence. Much of the material concerns the controversy over the sale of property belonging to the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad Company.

ArchivalResource: 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19276318 View

Thomas Bragg Papers, ., 1861-1862

Title: Thomas Bragg Papers, . 1861-1862

Thomas Bragg was governor of North Carolina, 1855-1859; a United States senator from North Carolina, 1859-1861; and Attorney General of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1863. The collection contains Bragg's diary during three periods: 3 January-1 March 1861, in Washington, D.C., as a United States senator during the secession crisis; 5 November 1861-9 April 1862, in Richmond, Va., as Confederate attorney general; and 11 April-7 November 1862, as a private citizen living at Petersburg, Va. The diary records congressional sessions and conversations with other politicians; Confederate cabinet meetings, but not Bragg's activities as attorney general; and reactions to war news.

ArchivalResource: 3

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Bragg,Thomas.html View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Letter, 1856.

Title: Letter, 1856.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84698309 View

American Revolutionary War collection, 1775-1786

Title: American Revolutionary War collection 1775-1786

An artificial collection of correspondence, payrolls, pay tables, receipts, commissions, and miscellanea including documents from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and South Carolina military forces.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear foot

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0674 View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, to President-elect James Buchanan, 1857 Feb. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, to President-elect James Buchanan, 1857 Feb. 25.

Recommending the reappointment of Wesley Jones as U.S. Marshall for North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270133638 View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872. Certification of Thomas Bragg, 1858.

Title: Certification of Thomas Bragg, 1858.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79451998 View