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Collection Number: 00687

Collection Title: Charles Manly Stedman Papers, 1916-1919.

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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 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 335 items)
Abstract Charles Manly Stedman represented the fifth North Carolina congressional district in the United States House, 1911-1930, and was the last Civil War veteran in Congress. The collection includes Stedman's correspondence with his constituents in Greensboro, N.C. and the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont, almost entirely in 1917, and a few personal letters. Most congressional correspondence involves government appointments and constituent military arrangements, with a few items dealing with Confederate veterans' affairs.
Creator Stedman, Charles Manly, 1841-1930.
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 Charles Manly Stedman Papers, #687, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Claude Kitchin, prior to 1940.
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, May 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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Charles Manly Stedman (1841-1930) represented the Fifth North Carolina congressional district in the United States House, 1911-1930, and was the last Civil War veteran in Congress. Stedman was born in Pittsboro, N.C., the son of Nathan A. Stedman, a merchant, and Euphania White Stedman of Virginia. He was educated at an academy at Fayetteville, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1861. He enlisted in the Confederate Army and was present at the battle of Bethel, Va., in June 1861, and remained on active duty with the Army of Northern Virginia until the end of the war, rising to be major of the 44th North Carolina Regiment, and being wounded three times.

After the war Stedman taught school for a while and then studied law, which he later practiced in Wilmington, Asheville, and Greensboro, N.C. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, 1880; lieutenant-governor of North Carolina, 1885-1889; and an unsucessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1888 and 1904. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the district around Greensboro from 1911 until his death in 1930. He was a member of the House committee on foreign affairs; a trustee of the University of North Carolina, 1899-1915; president of the North Carolina Railroad, 1909-1910; and a director of the Guilford Battleground Park, which he was instrumental in promoting, 1898-1917. He married Katherine DeRosset Wright of Wilmington, N.C.

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The collection includes Charles Manly Stedman's correspondence with his constituents in Greensboro, N.C. and the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont, almost entirely in 1917, and a few personal letters. Most congressional correspondence involves government appointments and constituent military arrangements, with a few items dealing with Confederate veterans' affairs and on the Guilford Battleground National Park. Among the correspondents are Lilian Shepherd, L. D. Robinson, Cole Blease, Furnifold M. Simmons, and Julian S. Carr.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1-2

Folder 1

Folder 2

March 1917

Folder 3

October 1917

Folder 4-7

Folder 4

Folder 5

Folder 6

Folder 7

November 1917

Folder 7

March 1919

Undated

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