Thomas Miles Garrett Diary, 1849-1850

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Thomas Miles Garrett Diary, 1849-1850

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Thomas Miles Garrett of Hertford and Bertie counties, N.C., was a member of the University of North Carolina class of 1851; lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; and colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. The collection includes several unbound sections and a typed bound copy of the diary of Thomas Miles Garrett while a student at the University of North Carolina, written, with missing dates, 13 June 1849 to 16 November 1850. In the diary, Garrett recorded his observations on daily happenings at the University; classes; faculty; living conditions; meetings and affairs of the literary societies, especially the Philanthropic Society, of which he was a member; Episcopal and Presbyterian churches in Chapel Hill; a number of the students, including Joseph Alonzo Manning, John Robert Waddill, and John W. Moore of Hertford County, class of 1853; and a visit to Cornelia Phillips (Cornelia Phillips Spencer).

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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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Garrett, Thomas Miles, 1830-1864.

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Thomas Miles Garrett (1830-1864), of Hertford County, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in the class of 1851. He practiced law at Windsor, N.C., then, serving as colonel in the 5th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War, was killed at Spottsylvania, 12 May 1864. From the guide to the Thomas Miles Garrett Diary, 1849-1850, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Thomas Miles Garrett of Hertford and Bertie cou...