Thomas Pollock Devereux papers, 1878; 1912 [manuscript].

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Thomas Pollock Devereux papers, 1878; 1912 [manuscript].

"From Petersburg to Appomattox," recollections, 1912, by Devereux of Wake County, N.C., concerning his experiences with Grimes's division of the 2nd Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia during the last months of the Civil War, 18 p. carbon typescript; and a letter, 1878, from R. W. Pulliam, Asheville, N.C., to Thomas P. Devereux, state solicitor, about the case of the State vs. G. W. Swepson and M. S. Littlefield, a case of railroad fraud during Reconstruction in North Carolina.

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