Richard Don Wilson poem, ca. 1842.

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Richard Don Wilson poem, ca. 1842.

"The Visionary," a lyric love poem of forty-six verses, written by Richard Don Wilson of Caswell County, N.C., while he was a student at the University of North Carolina.

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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...

Wilson, Richard Don, 1819-1883.

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Richard Don Wilson (1819-1883) of Lennox Castle, Caswell County, N.C., was a lawyer, teacher, and Confederate soldier. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1842. From the guide to the Richard Don Wilson Poem, circa 1842, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...