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Collection Number: 01996

Collection Title: Walter A. Montgomery Papers, 1861-1921.

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the World Wide Web. See the Duplication Policy section for more information.


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.

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Size 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately About 1,000 items)
Abstract Walter A. Montgomery (1845-1921) was a lawyer, Confederate soldier, and North Carolina Supreme Court justice, of Warrenton, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. The collection contains writings of Montgomery, including typed drafts and supplementary notes for an unpublished political history of the Confederacy and for Montgomery's memoirs of his life after the Civil War, and an annotated typescript of his autobiography through 1865 (privately printed in 1939 as The "Days of Old and the Years that are Past").
Creator Montgomery, Walter A. (Walter Alexander), 1845-1921.
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.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
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 Walter A. Montgomery Papers, #1996, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Elizabeth M. Montgomery, March 1952.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A copy of the original finding aid for this collection 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

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

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Walter Alexander Montgomery (1845-1921) was born in Warrenton, N.C., and served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. He practiced law in Warrenton until 1893 except for a brief period, 1872-1875, in Memphis, Tenn. He moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1893, was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1894-1904, and resumed the practice of law in Raleigh until his death.

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The collection contains writings of Walter Alexander Montgomery, including typed drafts and supplementary notes for an unpublished political history of the Confederacy and for Montgomery's memoirs of his life after the Civil War alternately titled "My Day in Court," "A Country Lawyer of the Old South," and "A Southern Liberal of the Turn of the Century;" and an annotated typescript of his autobiography through 1865 (privately printed in 1939 as The Days of Old and the Years that Are Past).

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1, 25

"My Day in Court," drafts

Folder 2-21

Folder 2

Folder 3

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

Folder 8

Folder 9

Folder 10

Folder 11

Folder 12

Folder 13

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

Folder 20

Folder 21

"Politcal History of the Confederate States of America," notes

Folder 22-24

Folder 22

Folder 23

Folder 24

"Politcal History of the Confederate States of America," rough draft

Folder 26-31

Folder 26

Folder 27

Folder 28

Folder 29

Folder 30

Folder 31

The Days of Old and the Years that Are Past, typed manuscript

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