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Burgwyn entered the University of North Carolina in 1860, left in 1861 because of illness and that year became a cadet at the Hillsborough Military Academy. He returned to the university after the Civil War, graduated with first honors in June 1868 and was appointed a trustee in 1883.
Source: NCpedia: Burgwyn, William Hyslop Sumner
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6 works about William H. S. Burgwyn are indexed here, as are 4 works by Burgwyn.
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Diary First Lieutenant William H. S. Burgwyn kept from 1 August 1862 to 2 March 1863 while serving in Company H of the 35th Regiment, North Carolina Troops. Harpers Ferry, Antietam and Fredericksburg fall within these months, along with camp life and casualties. 65 images.
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William H. S. Burgwyn of Company H, 35th North Carolina Infantry, wrote his mother Anna Greenough Burgwyn on 17 November 1862 that his uncle Thomas Pollock Burgwyn had sent blankets for him and his men. He describes how worn his clothes have become and hopes she will send warmer ones.
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Writing to his mother on 22 August 1862, William H. S. Burgwyn reports that his regiment has reached a new camp near Richmond after a dusty march. With the weather turned cold he means to keep his brother's blankets, and he adds that the regiment of his brother Harry, Henry King Burgwyn Jr., is eager for Harry's return.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Letter of 9 September 1861 from William H. S. Burgwyn to his mother. He had joined the Confederate army that year at fifteen and, having some military training, was a second lieutenant in Colonel J. Johnston Pettigrew's 22nd North Carolina, then building batteries on the Potomac. Measles in camp and Chapel Hill also come up.
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Autograph book kept by Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845 to 1908), governor of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901, as a member of the University of North Carolina class of 1863 to 1864. It carries the signatures of 70 schoolmates from the wartime classes at Chapel Hill, most of whom went to war, 1861 to 1863.
Included because: Catalog heading in the State Archives of NC record: Burgwyn, William Hyslop Sumner, 1845-1913.
Letters and papers of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, the Chapel Hill writer and historian and daughter of professor James Phillips, 1857 to 1905. Most of the correspondence, from 1859 to 1895, concerns the university and life in the village, with letters exchanged with Swain, Kemp P. Battle and George T. Winston, successive heads of the university, and with Mrs. Swain and W. C. Kerr. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.7.
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Picture: William H. S. Burgwyn, portrait plate, 1896. No known copyright restrictions. From Walter Burgwyn Jones, John Burgwyn, Carolinian (1913); Internet Archive Book Images, via Flickr Commons and Wikimedia Commons
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