Moore and Gatling Law Firm papers, 1788-1921 (bulk 1853-1888) [manuscript].

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Moore and Gatling Law Firm papers, 1788-1921 (bulk 1853-1888) [manuscript].

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The collection documents the Moore and Gatling Law Firm, as well as Moore's legal practice before the firm was established in 1871 and Gatling's later partnerships with Henry A. Gilliam and Spier Whitaker. The collection chiefly concerns legal and financial affairs, politics, and family life of the Reconstruction era, but also includes antebellum materials documenting these topics, as well as slavery and the Civil War. Legal materials consist of deeds, agreements, proceedings, statewide correspondence with clients; they chiefly document estate settlement, marriage, bankruptcy and financial losses for slave-owning families during the Reconstruction era, property transactions, labor agreements, and other routine legal matters. Financial materials include bills, receipts, and account books, and chiefly concern the Moore and Gatling law firm; personal finances; farm expenses; and labor, including slave labor and the buying and selling of enslaved people. There are also personal papers of Moore and Gatling that document political views before, during, and after the Civil War; business partnerships; farm operations, especially marketing of cotton crops; and family and social news. Of note are letters from Civil War soldiers and accounts of the battles of Manassas and Fort Fisher and of skirmishes on the Neuse River; Gatling's service as assistant quartermaster with the 52nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment and letters to him from friends in the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment; account books of North Carolina Confederate supply officers; typed transcriptions of letters, 1866, exchanged by Moore and North Carolina Governor W.W. Holden regarding an 1863 discussion they had with Governor Zebulon Baird Vance on their differing views of unionism; original letters and typescripts of correspondence between Moore and Kenneth Rayner that provide detailed descriptions of their roles and responsibilities in the surrender of Raleigh, N.C., to General Sherman in 1865, and an account of the surrender and its immediate aftermath; and documents relating to the Kirk-Holden War. Other topics include the lives of African Americans, as documented where enslaved and free people appear in legal and financial documents such as wills, labor agreements, and court materials, and in personal correspondence that discusses business dealings, crimes, and perceptions of work and religious habits; an 1855 dispute over teacher salaries in Hyde County, N.C.; railroads, especially regarding Gatling's role as receiver for the Midland North Carolina Railway Company and the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company; and to the planning and construction of the Atlantic Hotel in Morehead City, N.C., in the 1880s. The collection includes three photographs, circa 1875, of Moore family members.

About 12200 items (18 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7117104

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company

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Moore, B. F. 1801-1878.

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Atlantic Hotel (Morehead City, N.C.)

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Rayner, Kenneth, 1808-1884

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Kenneth Rayner was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, member of the Alabama Claims Commission, solicitor of the United States Treasury, and United States Representative from North Carolina. From the description of Kenneth Rayner papers, 1675-1905 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23765318 Representative from N.C., solicitor U.S. treasury. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to President Arthur, 1883 Nov. 8. (Unknown). World...

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 52nd.

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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...

Midland North Carolina Railroad.

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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...

Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 13th.

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Holden, W. W. 1818-1892.

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Gatling, John Thomas, 1840-1888.

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Moore and Gatling Law Firm (Raleigh, N.C.)

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The Moore and Gatling Law Firm of Raleigh, N.C., a law partnership between B.F. (Bartholomew Figures) Moore (1801-1878) and his son-in-law John Thomas Gatling (1840-1888), was established in 1871. Just prior to Moore's death in November 1878, Gatling went into practice with Henry A. Gilliam, with whom he partnered until roughly 1883, when he then joined with Spier Whitaker in a partnership that appears to have ended in 1886. From the description of Moore and Gatling Law Firm papers, ...

Moore family.

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