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[Identification of item], in the Thomas A. Nicholson Letters #5006-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Microfilm copy (filmed 2005-2006) available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

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Received from the McGowan Book Company of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December 1999 (Acc. 98520).

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Encoded by: John Foster, November 2000

Revisions: Finding aid updated in May 2005 by Nancy Kaiser.

Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021

Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the microfilming of this collection.

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• Camp Centerville (Va.).
• Confederate States of America. Army--Hospitals.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade.
• Nicholson, Thomas A.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Thomas A. Nicholson joined the Confederate Army at Winchester, Va., on 18 July 1861. He served in the Stonewall Brigade (Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment). In September 1861, he spent time in Manassas Hospital with an ankle injury and complaints of weakness and chest pain. By the end of that month, he had rejoined his unit and was anxious to see combat. His letters originate from Camp Centerville, Va., and discuss the prospect that his unit was to be sent to winter quarters at Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley. Nicholson does not appear on the muster rolls for the Stonewall Brigade after December 1861.

The collection consists of five letters of Virginia Civil War soldier Thomas A. Nicholson to his mother and sister, May-November 1861, while Nicholson was serving in the Stonewall Brigade (Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment). The letters discuss various aspects of military life; Nicholson's stay in Manassas Hospital; his desire to meet the Union Army in battle; and his unit's prospective move to winter quarters at Winchester, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley.

• Microfilm reel (M-5006/1)