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William Preston Mangum

1837–1861 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Hillsborough receives the body of Lt. William P. Mangum, mortally wounded at Manassas The body of Lt. William Preston Mangum of the Flat River Guards, only son of former Senator Willie P. Mangum, arrived by train on August 1. Citizens met it at the depot and escorted it through town with the church and court house bells tolling and the town flag at half mast, and young men of the town went with it to his father's home for burial in the family graveyard. People: William Preston Mangum, Willie P. Mangum Place: Railroad depot and streets, HillsboroughHillsborough Recorder, August 7, 1861, p. 3

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William Preston Mangum

Mangum, A. W. (Adolphus Williamson), 1834-1890 · 1884 · Published under the auspices of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Adolphus Williamson Mangum's short life of William Preston Mangum, born in 1837 and dead in 1861. Signed only A.W.M., it ran in the North Carolina University Monthly for May 1884 and was reissued at Chapel Hill under the auspices of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mangum, William Preston, 1837-1861.

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