Clyde Hughes collection of Smith, Wheeler, and Taylor family papers, 1837-1905.

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Clyde Hughes collection of Smith, Wheeler, and Taylor family papers, 1837-1905.

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Letters, financial and legal material, notebooks, and printed material of the Smith, Wheeler, and Taylor families and their neighbors in 19th-century Arkansas and Mississippi that were collected by Clyde Malcom Hughes. The bulk of the material is from Bradley and Ashley counties in southeastern Arkansas and Coffeeville, Miss. Smith family papers, which comprise about half of the collection, include letters, financial and legal papers, and seven small notebooks that document R. S. Smith's accounts with laborers and related expenses. Smith family Civil War materials include letters and an account book, probably kept by Ransom Smith, for the 1st Arkansas Battalion, Company B. There are also a few materials, 1852-1865, of the Joseph Wheeler family of Bradley County, Ark., and a group of Civil War letters of various members of the Taylor family of Coffeeville, Miss. A letter written by John W. Taylor in Corinth, Miss., 11 April 1862, gives a detailed description of his experience in the Battle of Shiloh. Another, 20 May 1863, describes the Battle of Baker's Creek, and another by Stewart Taylor, 22 August 1865, anticipates the hardships of Reconstruction. George Brown, a teacher both before and after the Civil War, is represented by tuition bills, lists of school rules, certificates of eligibility to teach, and related materials. Printed material includes advertising flyers describing cotton gins and other machines and a postcard with a drawing of Andersonville Prison. Papers relating to Clyde Hughes include correspondence concerning this collection and printed advertisements for guns.

About 500 items (0.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7396849

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Andersonville Prison

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Brown, Georg Stanford

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Resident of Berry County, MI. From the description of Letters, 1839-1854. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 32058074 ...

Smith family.

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Taylor family.

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Hughes, Clyde,

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The Smith, Wheeler, and Taylor families were from Ashley County, Ark.; Bradley County, Ark.; and Coffeeville, Miss. Ransom Smith, a planter, served in the Arkansas 1st Battalion, Company B, during the Civil War. Smith seems to have been a moderately successful planter both before and after the war. John Taylor also served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. George Brown of Bradley County, Ark., was a teacher before and after the Civil War. From the description of Clyde Hugh...

Wheeler family.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Battalion, 1st.

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Smith, Ransom S.

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Wheeler, Joseph T.

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Taylor, John William, 1845-1931

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Third president of the Mormon Church. From the description of Revelation given through John Taylor, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122598595 Cinematographer. From the description of Reminiscences of John Taylor : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574417 General storekeeper at Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the description of John W. Taylor papers, 1854-1865. (University of Michigan). Wo...

Taylor, Stewart F.

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