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Charles J. Watson

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By Charles J. Watson

Charles J. Watson papers, 1861-1873 ; 1900.

Watson, Charles J., -1873 · 1900

Correspondence and personal narratives of Charles J. Watson, who died in 1873, covering 1861 to 1873 with one item from 1900: twenty seven items in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3955. The material follows a soldier of the 27th North Carolina Infantry, imprisonment at Point Lookout in Maryland, and later migration to Robertson County, Texas.

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