Thomas Claiborne papers, 1845-1935 [manuscript].

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Thomas Claiborne papers, 1845-1935 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22486138

The collection includes family correspondence, military papers, and reminiscences of Claiborne, including military records, letters to his wife Annie A. (Maxwell) Claiborne, and letters from relatives and fellow officers while he was with the U.S. army in Oregon, New Mexico, and other places in the West, 1849-1861; personal and military correspondence as a Confederate staff and cavalry officer in both the Virginia and Tennessee theaters of the Civil War; and slight postwar correspondence. The recollections, written ca. 1899, cover the Mexican War, frontier service, and the early part of the Civil War.

About 500 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7051997

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Claiborne, Annie A. Maxwell, d. 1902.

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Claiborne, Thomas, 1823-1902.

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