Edmund Strudwick Burwell Papers, . 1825-1883 (bulk 1863-1867)

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Edmund Strudwick Burwell Papers, . 1825-1883 (bulk 1863-1867)

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Edmund Strudwick Burwell was one of twelve children of Robert Armistead and Anna (Robertson) Burwell, both Presbyterian educators. Edmund S. Burwell attended Mr. Ralph Grave's school in Granville, N.C., during the Civil War, while his father and four older brothers served in the Confederate Army. He attended Hampden-Sidney College, 1866-1867, and later became a businessman in Charlotte, N.C. The collection inlcudes letters, chiefly 1863-1867, to Edmund S. Burwell at school in Granville County, N.C., and at Hampden-Sidney College, from his parents, from his brothers serving in various Confederate regiments, and from his sisters at home in Charlotte, N.C. Civil War letters discuss military life and economic and social conditions at home, including the influx of refugees as General Sherman's troops moved towards the Carolinas. Letters in the 1870s are from Edmund's father at Peace Institute.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Burwell, Edmund Strudwick, 1849-1887.

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Edmund Strudwick Burwell (1849-1887) was one of twelve children of Robert Armistead (1802-1895) and Anna (Robertson) Burwell. The Reverend Robert A. Burwell was a Presbyterian preacher and educator who came from Virginia to Hillsboro, N.C., in 1835, and with his wife had a school there until 1857, when they moved to Charlotte, N.C., to take charge of the Charlotte Female Institute. After his wife's death, in 1871, Reverend Burwell became the head of Peace Institute in Raleigh, N.C. Edmund S. Bur...