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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 Emma E. Ross Harty Papers, #3631-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loan 1963

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 10th.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st.
• Courtship--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Harty, Emma E. Ross, b. 1840.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Ross, Egbert A., 1842-1863.
• Tew's Military Academy (Hillsborough, N.C.)
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Emma E. Ross was the daughter of Dr. Francis Madison Ross and Dorcas N. Gilmer Ross of Charlotte, N.C. In 1861 she married James Harty of Charlotte.

The collection contains nine letters to Emma E. Ross before her marriage from her friend Harriette (last name unknown) of New Bern, N.C., and seventeen from her brother, Egbert A. Ross (1842-1863) written while he was attending Colonel Tew's Military Academy in Hillsborough, N.C. in 1860 and while he served as a Confederate officer with the 1st and 11th North Carolina regiments in Virginia and eastern North Carolina; a letter to Emma from her mother; and a few other items. The letters from Harriette deal largely with courtship and social life. Those from Egbert discuss life at school, troop movements, need for food, mortality of troops from disease, and other matters.

• Photographs (PF-3631/1)