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Dispatch: General Ewell to General Branch, May 18, 1862
Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 · 1862
Dispatch of 18 May 1862 from Confederate General Richard S. Ewell to General Lawrence O'B. Branch, written out by Ewell's chief of staff John M. Jones, telling Branch to stop his brigade and wait for further orders. Branch had represented North Carolina in Congress before the war. Three images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Dispatch: General Ewell to General Branch, May 19, 1862
Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 · 1862
Order sent on 19 May 1862 from General Richard S. Ewell to General Lawrence O'B. Branch, penned by John M. Jones, Ewell's chief of staff, directing Branch to march his brigade toward New Market, Virginia. Three images.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Papers,
Harriss, Thomas Whitmel · 1795
Family and business letters of Thomas Whitmel Harriss, a tobacco planter at Littleton in Halifax County, 303 items from 1795, with letters to relatives in Tennessee and Mississippi and his son Thomas's letters of 1870 to 1891. Accounts give prices for cotton, tobacco and small goods, and other letters concern the University of North Carolina, Randolph-Macon College and temperance.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. -- 1820-1862.
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