Bryan Grimes papers, 1730-1929.

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Bryan Grimes papers, 1730-1929.

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The collection consists of personal and family correspondence and business papers, including correspondence, 1844-1849, while he attended the University of North Carolina; almost daily letters, 1863-1865, to his wife, Charlotte Emily Bryan Grimes (1840-1920), while he commanded Confederate troops in Virginia; business correspondence and accounts with commission merchants concerning cotton sales; early 20th-century correspondence of two of his sons, John Bryan Grimes (1868-1923), state official in Raleigh, N.C., and Alston Grimes, at the family home, concerning business, politics, personal, and plantation affairs; genealogical correspondence and papers, 1894-1913, of Alston; and copies of older family letters and documents. Some correspondence relates to the lives of African Americans before and after the Civil War. There are also receipts and legal documents of Allen Grist, some of which document the sale of slaves. Volumes are plantation accounts, 1868-1919, including accounts with work hands and tenants; blacksmith and merchandise accounts; toll bridge accounts at Washington, N.C., 1872-1874 and 1884; student notebooks; family records and data; miscellaneous account books; notes, correspondence, and essays memorializing the Civil War, especially the Battle of Gettysburg; and reminiscences of Charlotte Emily Bryan Grimes, including a record of her time spent in camp with her husband and the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. Other papers include speeches, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to family history, North Carolina history and government, the North Carolina state seal, and memorialization of the Civil War. Also included are the constitution of the Farmers Interstate Protective Association and a four-page account, author unknown, of the history of the Ku Klux Klan's involvement in lynchings in North Carolina.

ca. 4,500 items (8.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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John Bryan Grimes, the second of nine children born to Major General Bryan Grimes and Charlotte Emily Bryan, grew up on the family plantation, Grimesland, in Pitt County. He began his education at several North Carolina private schools, including Trinity School at Chocowinity. Grimes studied at the University of North Carolina (1882-1885) before completing his education at Bryant and Stratton Business College in Baltimore. An active farmer, he served as president of the North Carolina Tobacco Gr...

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Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880

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Bryan Grimes (1828-1880), the son of Bryan Grimes Sr. and Nancy Grist, was a Confederate General and an enslaver who owned a cotton plantation. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848, and the following year, his father gave him the family plantation Grimesland in Pitt County, N.C., along with approximately 100 enslaved persons. Bryan Grimes lived the life of plantation owner until the eve of the Civil War in 1861. He then attended North Carolina's state convention and took a ...