John Taylor Wood papers, 1858-1915 [manuscript].

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John Taylor Wood papers, 1858-1915 [manuscript].

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The collection includes correspondence and diaries (in part microfilm). Included are descriptive letters, 1858-1860, from John Taylor Wood to his wife, Lola (MacKubin) Wood, written from Key West, Fla., France, Italy, Greece, and other places, and while at sea; diary, 1860-1861, of family life and public events while a professor at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and on his Maryland farm, including events leading to his resignation and concerning the Union's preparations for war; letters to his wife while in the Confederate Navy on Virginia rivers, discussing daily life, battles, and wanton destruction by Union forces; diary, April-July 1865, while he accompanied Jefferson Davis from Richmond and then escaped to Cuba and Canada; brief narrative by General John Cabell Breckinridge, who was with Wood on the escape to Cuba (typed copy); scattered letters received, 1865-1904, at Halifax, Nova Scotia; and a family history and scrapbook (microfilm).

About 200 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7162032

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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