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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Proffit Family Letters, #3408-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchase 1959

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: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

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. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 13th. Company H.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th. Company D.
• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st. Company B.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Proffit family.
• Proffit, Alfred N. (Alfred Newton), 1842-1929.
• Proffit, Andrew J. (Andrew Jackson), 1834-1865.
• Proffit, Calvin Luther, 1842-1863.
• Proffit, William H. (William Harrison), 1839-1863.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Wilkes County (N.C.)--Social conditions.

William and Mary Proffit lived near Lewis Fork Post Office, Wilkes County, N.C.

The collection is chiefly Civil War letters of the Proffit's four sons, to their parents and sister at home, and to each other. The letters discuss the farm and family and events in Wilkes County, and also army life and activities. All three sons served in North Carolina regiments in the Virginia theatre of the war. William H. Proffit was in Company B, 1st North Carolina Regiment, primarily in northern Virginia. He died in hospital at Gordonsville, Va., in October 1863. Alfred N. and Andrew J. Proffit were both in Company D, 18th North Carolina Regiment. Alfred spent time at hospitals in Richmond, Staunton, and Lynchburg, Va., and participated in most of the major battles in Virginia. Andrew saw action in Maryland and West Virginia in 1862, was captured and exchanged twice, and spent time in a hospital in Richmond. Calvin Luther Proffit was in Company H, 13th North Carolina Regiment, primarily along the Rappahannock River. He died in camp, March 1863.