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| Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
| Abstract | Thomas Claiborne was a United States and Confederate army officer from Nashville, Tenn. The collection includes family correspondence, military papers, and reminiscences of Claiborne, including military records, letters to his wife Annie A. (Maxwell) Claiborne, and letters from relatives and fellow officers while he was with the United States army in Oregon, New Mexico, and other places in the West, 1849-1861; personal and military correspondence as a Confederate staff and cavalry officer in both the Virginia and Tennessee theaters of the Civil War; and slight postwar correspondence. The recollections, written circa 1890's, cover the Mexican War, frontier service, and the early part of the Civil War. |
| Creator | Claiborne, Thomas, 1823-1902. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, August 2010
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.
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Biographical Information
Thomas Claiborne (1823-1902) was a United States and Confederate army officer from Nashville, Tenn.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes family correspondence, military papers, and reminiscences of Claiborne, including military records, letters to his wife Annie A. (Maxwell) Claiborne, and letters from relatives and fellow officers while he was with the United States army in Oregon, New Mexico, and other places in the West, 1849-1861; personal and military correspondence as a Confederate staff and cavalry officer in both the Virginia and Tennessee theaters of the Civil War; and slight postwar correspondence. The recollections, written circa 1890's, cover the Mexican War, frontier service, and the early part of the Civil War.
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Series 1. Correspondence, essays, and misc., 1845-1935 and undated.
Correspondence includes family correspondence, military papers, and reminiscences of Claiborne, including military records, letters to his wife Annie A. (Maxwell) Claiborne, and letters from relatives and fellow officers while he was with the United States army in Oregon, New Mexico, and other places in the West, 1849-1861; personal and military correspondence as a Confederate staff and cavalry officer in both the Virginia and Tennessee theaters of the Civil War; and slight postwar correspondence. Includes official signatures of Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), and James A. Seddon (1818-1880).
| Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
| Folder 1 |
1845-1851 |
| Folder 2 |
1852 |
| Folder 3 |
1853-1854 |
| Folder 4 |
1855-1856 |
| Folder 5 |
1857-1858 |
| Folder 6 |
1859-1860 |
| Folder 7 |
1861 |
| Folder 8 |
1862-1865 |
| Folder 9 |
1866-1889 |
| Folder 10 |
1889-1902 |
| Folder 11 |
1904-1929, 1935 |
| Folder 12 |
Essays, ca. 1900 |
| Folder 13 |
Sketch of President of the Woman's Board |
| Folder 14 |
Undated correspondence |
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Series 2. Manuscripts of War Reminiscences,Circa 1890's.
Manuscripts of Claiborne's recollections of his military experiences. The handwritten manuscripts were written in the 1890's. Part I includes remininscences of the Mexican War, and there are two typed transcriptions in addition to the handwritten manuscript. Part II includes remininscences of United States Army service on the frontier and his experiences in the Army of the Confederate States of America. Part III is entitled "The Campaign of 1862 into Kentucky of General Braxton Bragg."