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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Armistead Burwell Papers, #2449, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Helen Rhyne Burwell of Charlotte, N.C., April 1942.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Bar associations--United States--History.
• Burwell, Armistead, 1839-1913.
• Charlotte (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Judges--North Carolina--History.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• Practice of law--North Carolina--History.
• Roads--United States--History--20th century.
• Scrapbooks--North Carolina.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans.

Armistead Burwell (1839-1913) was a lawyer of Charlotte, N.C., state senator, and North Carolina supreme court judge. He was the son of Reverend Robert Burwell and Margaret Anna Robertson Burwell. He was educated at Davidson College and was teaching in Princeton, Ark., in 1861 when he joined the Confederate Army, serving with the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry, and becoming captain on the staff of General F. C. Armstrong. He began the practice of law in Charlotte, N.C., 1869, in various partnerships with Calvin E. Grier, Zebulon B. Vance, Platt D. Walker, and E. T. Cansler. He was also director of the North Carolina Railroad. He married Ella Jenkins of Salisbury, N.C., a sister of Mrs. Eben Nye Hutchinson of Charlotte. They had three children, Armistead Burwell Junior, Birdie (Mrs. Richard C.) Carson, and Fannie (Mrs. Word H.) Wood.

The collection includes the papers, chiefly 1869-1913, of Armistead Burwell, including correspondence from his Charlotte, N.C., law practice, speeches for ceremonial occasions, and papers relating to family events, Confederate veterans' activities, and the bar association. Also included are three scrapbooks of members of the Burwell family, with clippings about family and social events in Charlotte, 1894-1913, and a Good Roads Tour, New York to Atlanta, 1909; a military pass and an account book of a Captain Burwell, possibly Armistead or John B. Burwell, 1864; and caricatures, drawings, and mimeographed student newspapers of a grandson, also named Armistead Burwell, 1935-1936. There are also a few photographs including portraits of Burwell family members and the Burwell family home.

Photographs (PF-2449/1-2)