Daniel Chevilette Govan Papers, . 1861-1908

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Daniel Chevilette Govan Papers, . 1861-1908

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Govan,Daniel_Chevilette.html

Daniel Chevilette Govan was a Mississippi and Arkansas planter, Confederate general, and United States Indian agent. The collection, in part, microfilm, contains scattered papers of Govan, including Civil War letters from him to his wife, Mary (Otey) Govan, in which he discussed camp life at various forts in Tennessee and Kentucky; postwar letters received in response to his manuscript articles discussing military history in the Tennessee theater; correspondence, 1894-1900, as Indian agent at the Tulalip Agency, Washington State, mostly with Indians and concerning their problems; selections from a scrapbook of letters and clippings (microfilm); and part of the Civil War recollections of Confederate General St. John Richardson Liddell (1815-1870) of Louisiana.

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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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Govan, Daniel Chevilette, 1829-1911

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Mississippi and Arkansas planter, Confederate general, and U.S. Indian agent. From the description of Daniel Chevilette Govan papers, 1861-1908 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24250566 Daniel C. Govan (1829-1911) was born in North Carolina, the son of congressman A.R. Govan. He became a planter in Mississipi in 1852, and in 1853 he married Mary F. Otey. He later moved to Arkansas, where he was a planter until the onset of the Civil War and then again after the war, until 1...