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Thomas Bragg

From the state marker

“Attorney-General of Confederacy, Governor of N.C. 1855-59, U.S. Senator. Home stands one block north.”

State historical marker: E-6: Thomas Bragg

1810–1872 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Thomas Bragg

Kron Family Letters [Miscellaneous

Kron, F.J. (Francis Joseph), 1798-1883; Kron, Elizabeth; Kron, Adele, 1828-1910; Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866; Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus, 1797-1856; Norwood, William, 1767-1856; Bragg, Thomas, 1810-1872; International Congress of Americanists; Blackmer, Luke · 1827

Kron family letters of Stanly County, 1827 to 1901: Dr. Francis Joseph Kron's correspondence with Francis L. Hawks, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz and Governor Thomas Bragg, and later letters from Adelaide and Elizabeth Kron written after his death. Among them is his letter declining an appointment as a trustee, and the University of North Carolina figures in the correspondence. Part of North Carolina Memory.

About Thomas Bragg

Guide to the microfilm edition of the Thomas Bragg diary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1966 · University of North Carolina Library

Ten page guide to the microfilm edition of the Thomas Bragg diary, kept in 1861 and 1862 and part of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in 1966, it describes a source for United States politics and government in the Civil War years.

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  1. Trustees mortgage all university property to settle its debts Facing $103,000 of debt against worthless bank stock and Confederate securities, the trustees compromised with the Bank of North Carolina and other creditors at a quarter of the debt in gold, pledging all the university's property at Chapel Hill and its Buncombe County lands. The General Assembly also voted $7,000 for one year to pay the officers. People: Thomas Bragg, David L. SwainSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 755
  2. William A. Graham of Hillsborough joins the prosecution of Governor Holden The House managers announced to the impeachment court that former governor William A. Graham of Hillsborough, with Thomas Bragg and Augustus S. Merrimon, would act as their counsel. Graham argued points of evidence for the prosecution through the trial. People: William A. Graham, Thomas Bragg, Thomas SparrowInternet Archive: Trial of William W. Holden, Governor of North Carolina, vol. 1 (1871)

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