Henry Armand London papers, 1862-1877; 1887.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Henry Armand London papers, 1862-1877; 1887.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27183585

The collection includes a diary with entries July 1862-November 1863 and July-November 1864 kept by Henry Armand London while he was a student at the University of North Carolina; accounts and miscellaneous memoranda, 1867-1877, included in one of the diary volumes; five letters, February 1864-March 1865, written by London from Chapel Hill, N.C., and with the 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment near Richmond; and an 1887 Confederate Memorial Day oration by London. The diaries include brief accounts of the weather, recitations, drinking, practical jokes, dental treatments, and other aspects of student life at UNC and life in Chapel Hill. One letter, 16 February 1864, describes a posse of UNC students breaking up a camp of runaway slaves and officers rounding up freshmen and sophomores to take to the conscription offices in Raleigh, N.C. Other letters describe life in the Confederate army.

8 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7240562

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64499xp (corporateBody)

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...

Confederate states of America. Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn4wfh (corporateBody)

The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

London, Henry Armand, 1846-1918

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp7z4b (person)

Henry Armand London of Pittsboro, N.C., was a journalist and lawyer who attended the University of North Carolina until 1864 when he joined the Confederate army. After the war, he returned to Pittsboro, where he was involved in many business ventures and in community activities. He served as UNC trustee, 1901-1917. From the description of Henry Armand London papers, 1862-1877; 1887. WorldCat record id: 27183585 Henry Armand London, journalist and lawyer, was bor...

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 32nd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wb08rh (corporateBody)