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Collection Number: 02481

Collection Title: Hilary A. Herbert Papers, 1864-1931

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items)
Abstract Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897. The collection includes his correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including many national politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904, Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a "History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.," written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and general articles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917 covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, and his political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scattered papers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C.
Creator Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919.
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 Hilary A. Herbert Papers, #2481, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alternate Form of Material
NHPRC microfilm available.
Additional Descriptive Resources
Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.
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

Finding aid updated in June 2010 by Kathryn Michaelis for digitization.

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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.

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

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Hilary A. Herbert was an Alabama and Washington, D.C., lawyer, author, Democratic United States representative, 1877-1893, and secretary of the Navy, 1893-1897.

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The collection includes Herbert's correspondence, writings, speeches, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1892-1919, is with friends, including many national politicians, concerning politics, foreign affairs, and, from 1904, Reconstruction and the race question. Also included are Herbert's speeches; a "History of the 8th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.," written in 1864; European travel notes, 1887; historical, patriotic, and general articles; diary, 1910-1917; scrapbooks of his career; notes on his book, The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences; and reminiscences written 1903 and 1917 covering his early life in Laurens, S.C., and Greenville, Ala., his education at the University of Alabama and the University of Virginia, his Confederate service, and his political career, and containing his reflections on slavery, abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the race question. Also included are scattered papers of his daughter, Ella (Mrs. Benjamin) Micou of Washington, D.C.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence and Related Material, 1892-1931 and undated.

About 235 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Correspondence includes exchanges with prominent politicians, including Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Carmody, and Richard Olney, discussing contemporary political issues, campaigns, and diplomatic affairs. Also included are miscellaneous pamphlets, speeches, and some scattered papers of Herbert's daughter, Ella Herbert Micou.

Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1892-1894

Folder 2

1895

Folder 3

1896-1898

Folder 4

1900-1903

Folder 5

1904

Folder 6

1905-1908

Folder 7

1909-1911

Folder 8

1912

Folder 9

1913-1914

Folder 10

1915-1916

Folder 11

1917

Folder 12

1918-1919

Folder 13

1920-1931

Folder 14

Undated papers

Folder 15-18

Folder 15

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Undated speeches and articles

Folder 19

Newspaper clippings

Folder 20-22

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Pamphlets

Reel M-2481/1-2

M-2481/1

M-2481/2

Microfilm

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14 items.

Arrangement: by content.

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6 items.

Folder 23

Volume 1: Grandfather's Talks About His Life Under Two Flags, 1903

Reminiscences of Hilary A. Herbert. Bound typescript.

Folder 24

Volume 2: Short History of the 8th Ala. Regiment, 1864

Written by Lieutenant Colonel Hilary A. Herbert at Orange Court House, Va. Manuscript copy.

Folder 25

Volume 3: Notes on a European trip, October 1887

Written by Hilary A. Herbert while on his way home on the ship City of Richmond. The notes are a continuation of the letters he sent home while abroad.

Folder 26

Volume 4: Hilary A. Herbert Diary, September 1910-November 1917

Folder 27

Volume 5: Herbert's "Jottings" on politics and on his book The Abolition Crusade and its Consequences, March-April 1912

Folder 28

Volume 6: A supplement to the reminiscences, August-September 1917

Further reflections on slavery, politics, the war, and Reconstruction. Written by Herbert at Chautauqua.

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6 items.
Folder 29

Volume 7: 1892-1897; 1907-1908

Pictures and clippings relating to the Micou-Herbert family, chiefly from social columns of newspapers. Also included are general items relating to Hilary A. Herbert.

Folder 30

Volume 8: 1892-1893

Clippings relating to Herbert's appointment as Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet.

Folder 31

Volume 9: "Personal Clippings," March 1893-October 1894

Clippings about Herbert and matters in which he was involved.

Folder 32

Volume 10: 1894-1896

Clippings about the Annual Naval Report, taken from various newspapers in November and December of each year from 1894-1896.

Folder 33

Volume 11: 1891-1910

Miscellaneous clippings, pictures, and poems. Also includes a Confederate reminiscence, written in the book and dated 1891.

Folder 34

Folder number not used

Oversize Volume SV-2481/12

Volume 12: 1894-1919

Includes clippings from newspapers and magazines, telegrams, notes, Herbert's book reviews and articles. Also contains obituary notices and tributes, 1919.

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2 items.

Josiah Gorgas was a United States and later Confederate ordnance officer. A copy of the diary represented in folder 35 is also housed in folder 2 the Josiah Gorgas Papers, #279-z.

Folder 35

Volume 13: Diary of Josiah Gorgas, "Section III," 27 December 1864-1 July 1877

Typescript. 149 pages.

Folder 36

Volume 14: Extracts from Notes on Confederate Ordnance, by Josiah Gorgas

"Written chiefly soon after the close of the war." Typescript. 41 pages.

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