Harry St. John Dixon Papers, 1855-1904

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Harry St. John Dixon Papers, 1855-1904

Harry St. John Dixon Papers, 1855-1904

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Harry St. John Dixon (1843-1898) was a native of Mississippi. He attended the University of Virginia, 1860-1861, served as a Confederate officer with the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in Virginia, and, after the war, he was a lawyer and rancher in California. The collection contains the personal correspondence and diaries of Dixon, chiefly correspondence between Dixon and his parents while he was a university student, a Confederate officer, and in California. His parents lived near Greenville, Miss., and, during part of the Civil War, in Demopolis, Ala. Correspondence concerns family affairs, domestic slaves, experiences at the University of Virginia, effects of the war in Mississippi, Dixon's war experiences, and other matters. Also included is Dixon's diary, 1858-1865, kept while he was at Greenville, at the University of Virginia, and during the war. Among other items are letters, 1868-1869, to Dixon's wife, Constance Maynard Dixon, from her grandfather, Duff Green (1791-1875); letters from Dixon's friend, Henry Ewing, Confederate officer in Tennessee and newspaperman in Saint Louis; and photographs of fellow soldiers and students and of others.

250; 1.5

eng,

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