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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Montgomery Gardner Papers, #269, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection available on microfilm.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Misses Gardner, prior to 1940.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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 2010; Nancy Kaiser, October 2020

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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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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• Autobiographies--United States.
• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
• California--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Officials and employees--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Gardner, Elizabeth McKinne.
• Gardner, Elizabeth, fl. 1847-1854.
• Gardner, James, Mrs.
• Gardner, William Montgomery, 1824-1901.
• Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.
• Mexican War, 1846-1848.
• Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--Records and correspondence.

William Montgomery Gardner (1824-1901) was a United States army officer in the Mexican War and a Confederate brigadier general.

The collection includes chiefly letters from William Montgomery Gardner to his mother, Elizabeth Gardner, of Augusta, Ga., his sister, and his brother, from Mexico, 1847-1848, and California, 1849-1854, discussing military and social affairs. Also included are letters from P. G. T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Alexander Hamilton Stephens; copies of galley proofs of Gardner's memoirs, edited by Elizabeth McKinne Gardner; scrapbooks of clippings of Mrs. James Gardner; and a roster from the Mexican War.

• Oversize volumes (SV-269/2-3)
• Microfilm (M-269/1)