Shotwell Family Papers, . 1829-1930 (bulk 1829-1887)

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Shotwell Family Papers, ., 1829-1930, (bulk 1829-1887)

Shotwell Family Papers, . 1829-1930 (bulk 1829-1887)

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Nathan Shotwell was a Presbyterian minister who held pulpits in antebellum Virginia and North Carolina and in Tennessee after the Civil War. His son, Randolph Abbott Shotwell (1844-1885) was a Confederate officer, North Carolina editor, and politician prominent on the conservative side of Reconstruction. The collection contains personal correspondence, sermons, and notes of the Reverend Nathan Shotwell and correspondence and scrapbooks of his son, Randolph Abbott Shotwell. More than half the collection comprises manuscript sermons and sermon notes by Nathan Shotwell. Other papers include Nathan Shotwell's correspondence about church matters and with his relatives in Washington County, Pa., and in New Jersey. Randolph Abbott Shotwell's correspondence includes letters from Jonathan Worth, Zebulon Baird Vance, and others discussing Reconstruction politics in North Carolina and Shotwell's arrest in 1871 for Ku-Klux Klan activities. An undated letter to Shotwell from an unidentified correspondent details Ku Klux Klan activity in Gaston County, N.C.

500; 2.0

eng,

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