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Collection Number: 00902

Collection Title: David Miller Dewitt Papers, 1908-1944

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 30 items)
Abstract The collection contains an unpublished manuscript on the history of Reconstruction by David Miller Dewitt of Kingston, N.Y.; county maps of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida; and Dewitt's correspondence with H. G. Connor of Raleigh, N.C., in which Connor expressed his appreciation of Dewitt's work.
Creator Dewitt, David Miller, 1837-1912.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the David Miller Dewitt Papers, #902, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.
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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, October 2010

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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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The collection contains an unpublished manuscript on the history of Reconstruction by David Miller Dewitt of Kingston, N.Y.; county maps of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida; and Dewitt's correspondence with H. G. Connor of Raleigh, N.C., in which Connor expressed his appreciation of Dewitt's work.

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Contents list

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30 items.

Arrangement: by content.

Some manuscript chapters are accompanied by research notes and Reconstruction-era newspaper clippings.

Folder 1

Chapter 1: "The Reconstructed Union"

Manuscript
Folder 2

Chapter 2: "The Reconstructed Union Unreconstructed"

Manuscript
Folder 3

Chapter 3: "The Twenty-Second Joint Rule"

Manuscript
Folder 4

Chapter 4: "The Campaign"

Manuscript
Folder 5

Chapter 5: Untitled

Manuscript
Folder 6

Chapters 1 and 2

Typescripts
Folder 7

Chapter 3: "The Main Reconstruction Act"

Typescript
Folder 8

Chapter 4: "First and Second Supplementary Acts"

Typescript
Folder 9

Chapter 5: "Attack on the Supreme Court. The Alabama Fiasco"

Typescript
Folder 10

Chapter 6: "Arkansas"

Typescript
Folder 11

Chapter 7: "The Omnibus Bill"

Typescript
Folder 12

Chapter 8: "The Fifteenth Amendment"

Typescript
Folder 13

Chapter 9: "Virginia"

Typescript
Folder 14

Chapter 10: "Mississippi and Texas"

Typescript
Folder 15

Chapter 11: "Georgia"

Typescript
Folder 16

Appendix of notes

Folder 17

Correspondence, 1908-1909

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