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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Cheves Haskell Papers, #2549-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy available.

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

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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.

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• Appomattox Campaign, 1865.
• Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893.
• Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Columbia (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872.
• Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
• Haskell family.
• Haskell, John Cheves, 1841-1906.
• Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.
• Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891.
• Lawyers--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Longstreet, James, 1821-1904.
• Malvern Hill, Battle of, Va., 1862.
• Moses, Raphael Jacob, 1812-1893.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864.
• Randall, Horace.
• Toombs, Robert Augustus, 1810-1885.
• Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, 1802-1888.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864.

• Alexander Cheves Haskell Papers (#320), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• John Cheves Haskell Memoirs (typescript copy), Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

John Cheves Haskell was a Confederate officer and lawyer of South Carolina.

The collection contains, in part, typed transcript and microfilm copies of originals in private hands. Included are Civil War letters from Haskell to his family, and a typed transcript copy of his reminiscences, written circa 1903 (137 pages). Haskell served in Virginia as an aide to generals Longstreet and Beauregard successively. The recollections describe experiences and personalities in detail and include the attack on Charleston, S.C., accounts of the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, and of the Appomattox Campaign and of action around New Bern and Washington, N.C. Officers mentioned include Horace Randall, R. J. Moses, Joseph E. Johnston, Richard S. Ewell, Isaac R. Trimble, Stonewall Jackson, Robert A. Toombs, and James Longstreet and P. G. T. Beauregard. Also included in the papers are a few post-war letters while Haskell was a lawyer at Columbia, S.C., and scattered other family and genealogical papers.

• Microfilm (Reel M-2549/1)