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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Samuel Catawba Lowry Recollections and Diary, #4129-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Typed transcription received as a gift in 1977

Location of Originals

Original in private hands in 1977.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009

Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2021

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.

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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• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 17th.
• Diaries.
• Lowry, Samuel Catawba, d. 1864.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Samuel Catawba Lowry (died 1864) was a Confederate soldier who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and South Carolina. Lowry was wounded at the battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run), 27-28 August 1862, and upon recovery, was discharged from the army for being underage. He apparently attended the Arsenal, a military school in Columbia, S.C., until his reenlistment in September 1863. He was killed in the battle of the Crater on 30 July 1864.

The collection includes a typed transcription of diary entries and recollections, with poems and brief essays, all by Samuel Catawba Lowry. The diary entries and recollections are vivid and detailed accounts of comrades and camp servants, soldiers' daily activities, hunting and fishing, nearby civilian conditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles. There is considerable information concerning the siege of Forts Sumter and Moultrie and some description of his regiment's participation in the repulsion of General Benjamin F. Butler's invasion at Bermuda Hundred, Va. The essays include "The Right of the South to Secede from the North" and "Are we Rebels?"