John Mitchell Davidson papers, 1851-1863 [manuscript].

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John Mitchell Davidson papers, 1851-1863 [manuscript].

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Five letters addressed to Davidson, Buncombe County, N.C.: two, 1851 and 1852, from his cousin Zebulon Baird Vance, written while Vance was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, concerning college activities and other matters; one, 1863, from Vance, then governor, regretting that it was not in his power to favor Davidson with a certain position; one, 1861, from Davidson's brother, Allen Turner Davidson, concerning the latter's election to the Confederate Congress; and one, 1863, from Isaac M. C. Dunn, Davidson's father-in-law.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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On February 4, 1861, representatives from 6 of the seceded states assembled in Montgomery, Alabama, to organize the Confederate States of America. At this time, the representatives drafted a provisional constitution and declared a provisional legislature. They selected Jefferson Davis to serve as their president. The provisional congress continued to meet in Montgomery until May 20, 1861, when the provisional capital moved to Richmond, Virginia. A permanent government and constitution were ratif...

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Davidson, Allen Turner, 1819-1905.

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Allen Turner Davidson (1819-1905) and his family lived in Asheville, N.C. From the guide to the Allen Turner Davidson Letters, ., 1861, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Dunn, Isaac M. C.

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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...

Davidson, John Mitchell, 1829-1917.

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John Mitchell Davidson, merchant and soldier, was born 21 October 1829 in North Carolina, and died 17 January 1917, place unknown. He was a shopkeeper in Copperhill, Tennessee (1856-1861), and served (1862-1864) as a lieutenant in Company C, 39th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers. While Davidson was in the Confederate Army, his wife Julia Dunn Davidson lived in Atlanta, where her family operated a hotel. After the war, Davidson became a station agent for the Western & Atlantic Railroad. ...