Gordon and Hackett Family Papers, 1752-1942 (bulk 1847-1860)

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Gordon and Hackett Family Papers, 1752-1942 (bulk 1847-1860)

1752-1942 (bulk 1847-1860)

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Two Wilkes County, N.C., families were united through Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and his wife, Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. Robert Franklin Hackett was an 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College and practiced medicine in Wilksboro, N.C. Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett was connected to the Brown, Gwyn, Lenoir, and Stokes families of North Carolina; her brother was Confederate Brigadier General James Byron Gordon (1822-1864). The collection consists chiefly of personal and family letters about household affairs, social activities of young people, and local news from the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina; Unionville, S.C.; Shreveport, La.; and Cherokee County, Ala. Many of the letters are to and from female family members and describe their activities. Early papers include letters to Caroline Louise Gordon at school in Salem, N.C., and to Robert F. Hackett at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Later papers include materials about public education in Wilkes County in the late 1850s and scattered Civil War letters. Included are two letters from Confederate Brigadier General James Byron Gordon. One, dated 22 June 1862, comments on military life, and the other, 3 February 1863, describes camp conditions in Culpepper County, Va. There are also materials relating to Robert and Caroline Hackett's sons, Richard Nathaniel Hackett, who was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1883-1887, and later an attorney and Congressman, and James Gordon Hackett, who was appointed to serve the state of North Carolina on several boards and commissions in the 1920s and 1930s. There are also several items relating to family history.

1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 650 items)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6626818

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

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Gordon, James B. (James Byron), 1822-1864

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Gwyn family.

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Brown family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Hackett, James Gordon, b. 1864.

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Mayor and postmaster of North Wilkesboro, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1788-1952. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19594499 ...

Hackett, Robert Franklin, d. ca. 1889.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Lenoir family.

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Hackett family.

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Stokes family.

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Gordon family.

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Hackett, R. N. (Richard Nathaniel), 1866-1923

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Hackett, Caroline Louise Gordon, 1828-1891.

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Hackett family.

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The Gordon and Hackett families of Wilkes County, N.C. were united through the marriage of Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. Robert Franklin Hackett was an 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and he practiced medicine in Wilkesboro, N.C. Caroline Gordon Hackett was a sister of Brigadier General James B. Gordon (1822-1864) and was connected with the Brown,...

Finley family

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Finley, Anne G.

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Gordon family.

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The Gordon and Hackett families of Wilkes County, N.C. were united through the marriage of Robert Franklin Hackett (died circa 1889) and Caroline Louise Gordon Hackett (1828-1891), who were married in 1859 after an extended and secret engagement. Robert Franklin Hackett was an 1849 graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and he practiced medicine in Wilkesboro, N.C. Caroline Gordon Hackett was a sister of Brigadier General James B. Gordon (1822-1864) and was connected with the Brown,...

William Martin

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