Philip Henry Pitts papers, 1814-1884 [manuscript].

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Philip Henry Pitts papers, 1814-1884 [manuscript].

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The collection includes etters written to and from members of the Pitts family, miscellaneous papers, and manuscript volumes, with typed transcriptions, containing accounts and diary entries by Philip Henry Pitts. The letters relate to family matters and business councerns of Philip H. Pitts and of his father, Thomas D. Pitts, including the latter's involvement as an officer in the War of 1812. A song lyric about the Nullification Crisis of 1832 is included. The accounts are for Philip H. Pitts's financial dealings in the cotton trade and in both the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad and Selma and Meridian Railroad, loans and debts, household expenditure for his Rurill Hill Plantation, and expenses relating to his slaves. Diary entries concern Pitts's planting and livestock, weather notes, cases of runaway slaves and a case of slaves murdering their master, and Perry County politics, business, crimes, and social news. The Caldwell and Davidson families are frequently mentioned. Indications of Pitts's interest in folk medicine and in the Pitts family's involvement in the Civil War, including participation of several family members in the 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, and anecdotes about Alexander Caldwell Davidson, Wiliam Rufus King, and Zebulon Baird Vance are also given in the diaries.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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King, William R. (William Rufus), 1786-1853

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William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the 13th vice president of the United States for six weeks in 1853 before his death. Earlier he had been elected as a U.S. representative from North Carolina and a senator from Alabama. He also served as minister to France during the reign of King Louis Philippe I. A Democrat, he was a Unionist and his contemporaries considered him to be a moderate on the issues of sectionalism, slavery ...

Selma and Meridian Railroad Company

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Organized in Alabama in 1864 by a charter amendment that changed the name of Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Railroad Company; sold and reorganized as Alabama Central Railroad Company (1871-1877); ran from Selma to York, Ala. (78 miles). From the description of Records, 1865-1877. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410409 ...

Pitts, Thomas Daniel, d. 1851.

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Alabama and Mississippi Railroad.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Caldwell family.

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Davidson family.

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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...

Pitts family.

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Davidson, Alexander Caldwell, 1826-1897.

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Pitts, Philip Henry, 1814-1884.

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Philip Henry Pitts was a cotton planter of Union Town (now Uniontown), Perry County, Ala. From the description of Philip Henry Pitts papers, 1814-1884 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24250618 Philip Henry Pitts, an Alabama cotton planter, was born 3 June 1814, probably in Essex County, Va. He was the son of Thomas Daniel Pitts (d. 26 August 1851) and Polly Pitts (d. 4 March 1839). Thomas D. Pitts and his family moved from Lloyds, Essex County, Va., in 1833 to ...