Diary: William H. S. Burgwyn Diary, August 1, 1862 - March 2, 1863
Diary of William H. S. Burgwyn describing First Lieutenant Burgwyn's service in Co. H of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment North Carolina Troops from August 1862-March 1863.
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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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Diary of William H. S. Burgwyn describing First Lieutenant Burgwyn's service in Co. H of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment North Carolina Troops from August 1862-March 1863.
William H. S. Burgwyn enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 at the age of fifteen because of his brief military training he was given the rank of 2nd Lieutenant attached to Colonel Johnston Pettigrew's 22nd North Car…
Daniel L. [Lindsay] Russell (1845-1908) served as governor of North Carolina from 1897 to 1901. He was a member of the class of 1863/64, University of North Carolina. The volume contains the autographs of 70 schoolmates…
Papers of Mrs. Cornelia Spencer, historian and writer from Chapel Hill, daughter of Prof. James Phillips. Most of the letters relate to UNC and life in Chapel Hill, 1859-1895, including correspondence with university pr…
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