Josiah Turner Papers, 1805-1923

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Josiah Turner Papers, 1805-1923

Josiah Turner Papers, 1805-1923

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Josiah Turner was a lawyer of Hillsborough, Orange County, N.C.; antebellum Whig politician; anti-secession Confederate officer; anti-Davis member of the Confederate Congress; and, during Reconstruction, a leading Conservative spokesman as editor of the . Raleigh Sentinel The collection is mostly family correspondence, 1859-1894, including Turner's letters to his wife, Sophia Devereux Turner, while he was a Confederate officer in eastern North Carolina, up to 1863; in the Confederate Congress, 1863-1865; and in Washington, D.C., seeking to be seated as a United States Representative, 1866. Other family correspondence is of Sophia Devereux Turner, her Devereux relatives, and the Turner children, chiefly 1859-1894. There is a smaller amount of political correspondence, including some relating to Turner's opposition to Republican Governor W. W. Holden and his expulsion from the North Carolina state legislature in 1880, as well as information concerning Confederate politics, Reconstruction in North Carolina, and the Ku-Klux Klan. Also included are speeches, clippings, bills and receipts, a small amount of printed material, a law journal, and a personal account book.

850; 1.0

eng,

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