Papers, 1855-1863.

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Papers, 1855-1863.

Includes letters from friends at school, 1850s, including a letter, 1856, referring to Wake Forest College; Civil War letters discussing relatives fighting in the Army of Northern Virginia; and a poem, "To the Sampson County Volunteers."

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 36th.

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Andersonville Prison, represented in the collection through its hospital records and registers, was located in southwest Georgia and operated for 15 months between 1864 and 1865. The site was used by the Confederate Army as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers. At the time of its closure, almost 13,000 Union soldiers had died at Andersonville. The records were collected by E. P. Hopkins, a captured soldier from Ohio who worked as a steward in the prison hospital. ...

Faison, Solomon Wesley.

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Corporal in the 36th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, C.S.A., from Clinton (Sampson Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1855-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19646962 ...

Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia

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The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America's Eastern Theater. Organized on June 20, 1861, as the Army of the Potomac, it soon incorporated the armies of the Shenandoah, Harpers Ferry, and the Northwest. The army's name changed to Army of Northern Virginia on March 14, 1862. It surrendered to the Northern Army of the Potomac at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. From the description of Confederate States of America, Army of ...

Wake Forest College

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