Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Alexander Justice Papers #1308, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Partial microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Sallie Justice of New Bern, N.C., in July 1947.

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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, December 2009

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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.

• African Americans--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Coast defenses--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America Army--African Americans.
• Confederate States of America Army--Military construction operations.
• Confederate States of America Army. Corps of Engineers--Records and correspondence.
• Fort Macon (N.C.)
• Green family.
• Justice family.
• Justice, Alexander, 1825-1879.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• New Bern (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Railroads--Design and construction--Confederate States of America
• School notebooks--History--19th century.
• Slave bills of sale--North Carolina.
• Slavery--Confederate States of America
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Sparrow family.
• Tillman family.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

Alexander Justice was a lawyer of in New Bern, N.C.

Chiefly legal and business papers of New Bern, N.C., lawyer, Alexander Justice, including grants, deeds, indentures, plats, bills of sale for slaves, wills, amnesty oaths, marriage contracts, bills and receipts, and bank shares. Also included are a composition book, 1843-1845, of Justice when he was a student at the University of North Carolina; items regarding Justice, Sparrow, Green, and Tillman family history; and other items belonging to Justice and his family; and records of the Confederate Corps of Engineers at Fort Macon, N.C., April-October 1861, concerning the hiring and quartering of slaves and free blacks who worked on railroad and coastal defenses.

• M-1308/1
• OP-1308/1