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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Terry Family Papers #1448-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed November 1973) available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. James H. Parker in 1948.

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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--Medical care.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 27th.
• Families--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Families--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Henry County (Ala.)--History.
• Military hospitals--Confederate States of America.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Terry family.
• Terry, Joseph Green, 1832-1868.
• Terry, Sarah, 1833-1898.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Joseph Green Terry (d. 1868), a cotton and cane farmer from Henry County, Ala., served as a Confederate soldier with the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment. His wife, Sarah Terry, was in Henry County during the Civil War.

The collection includes papers of Joseph Green Terry, Confederate soldier with the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment, cotton and cane farmer from Henry County, Ala., who died in 1868, and other members of the Terry family. Correspondence is chiefly between Terry and his wife Sarah Terry, 1863-1865, while he was a Confederate soldier in the General Hospital, Savannah, Ga., Camp Jackson, Danville, Va., Augusta, Ga., and Camp Sweet Water Church, S.C. Also included is scattered correspondence, 1855-1896, between Terry and a brother who was a soldier in Fredericksburg in 1863, and between Sarah in Henry County and relatives in Thomasville, Ga., Cain, Ga., Bratley, Ala., and Charleston, S.C., relating to family affairs. There are also two deeds dated 1850, grocery lists dated 1853 and 1896, a cotton bill dated 1858, and a general merchandise account for 1860.