Papers, 1765-1945.

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Papers, 1765-1945.

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Family and business letters, personal journals, deeds, legal items, and papers (chiefly 1830-1911) of William Norwood Tillinghast (b. 1831), merchant of Fayetteville, N.C.; William A. Norwood (d. ca. 1866), judge of Hillsboro, N.C.; and of the Tillinghast and Norwood families of Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. Contains information about the mercantile activities of the Tillinghast family, social life and customs in North Carolina before 1900, business and economic conditions in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, agriculture in the South Atlantic States before 1860, the secession of North Carolina, living conditions during the Civil War and Reconstruction, events of the war in North Carolina, the South during the late 19th century, and camp life during the Spanish American War. Correspondents include Kemp P. Battle and Henry Clay Robinson.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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