Thomas Sparrow Papers, . 1835-1871

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Thomas Sparrow Papers, . 1835-1871

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Thomas Sparrow was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, and Confederate officer of Washington (Beaufort County), N.C. Antebellum papers include legal and political correspondence and letters to Thomas Sparrow from colleagues and constituents while he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1858-1859. Correspondents include George E. Badger, David L. Swain, and John A. Stanly. There are references to several duels. Civil War papers, mostly 1861, include Sparrow's letters to his wife and a diary kept while he was captain of Company A, 7th North Carolina Infantry (the Washington Greys), defending the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in prison at Fort Coumbus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor, and Fort Warren, Boston, Mass. Also included are manuscript notes of an ordnance inspection of the Wilmington, N.C., defenses, 1863. Postwar items consist chiefly of a manuscript speech to freedmen, 1867, clippings about Sparrow's management of the impeachment trial of North Carolina governor W. W. Holden, 1871, and a full account of Sparrow's life.

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

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