William G. Dickson papers, 1767-1920 (bulk 1815-1895).

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William G. Dickson papers, 1767-1920 (bulk 1815-1895).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22611931

The collection is chiefly business and personal papers of William G. Dickson and members of his family, and personal correspondence and a few other items of the Abernethy and Glass families of North Carolina and Virginia. Correspondence primarily concerns local news of family, neighbors, and friends, with some miscellaneous legal and business materials. Included are items, 1795-1799, related to Dickson's student days at the University of North Carolina; letters, 1814-1818 and 1825, from relatives and friends in Bedford and Rutherford counties, Tenn., concerning the poor health of slaves, local members of the militia in the Creek Indian Wars, one man's military service and capture during the War of 1812, land sales, and the deaths of Dickson's parents; letters, 1852-1855, from Robert M. Dickson and his companions in California prospecting for gold; letters, 1857-1860, from students attending three North Carolina female academies; an 1860 letter from Zebulon B. Vance, discussing the proposed state convention and secession; many Civil War-era letters commenting on Confederate military life and wartime social and economic conditions in North Carolina and Virginia; and letters, 1865, about freed slaves leaving their former masters, hatred for the "Yankee Devils," and the imprisonment of a white man in Morganton, N.C., for shooting a black man. Also included are five volumes, 1837-1866, apparently kept by various members of the Abernethy family, containing business accounts, legal documents, original prose and verse, and a few scattered letters. Of particular interest are a journal, 1837-1852, probably kept by M.T. Abernethy, recording farming activities and the production output of an iron forge that employed slave labor at Kings Mountain and Lincolnton, N.C.; and a court minute docket for Caldwell County, N.C., covering the 1855-1857 terms.

ca. 1,090 items (1.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7078959

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Dixon family.

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Dickson, William G., 1775-1855.

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William G. Dickson was a University of North Carolina alumnus, attorney, and state representative of Burke (now Caldwell) County, N.C.; wife Peggy McDowell Dickson (1783-1854); father General Joseph Dickson (1745-1825); brother James Dickson; and son Robert Moffit Dickson (1820-1855). From the description of William G. Dickson papers, 1767-1920 (bulk 1815-1895). WorldCat record id: 22611931 From the guide to the William G. Dickson Papers, 1767-1920, (University of North Caro...

Abernethy family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Glass family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Dickson, Joseph, 1745-1825

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