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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Achilles James Tynes Letters, #1874-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Buford C. Tynes of Huntington, W. Va., July 1951.

Location of Originals

Location of originals unknown.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Chambersburg (Pa.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Cavalry.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 5th.
• McCausland, John, 1836-1927.
• Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August)
• Tynes, Achilles James, fl. 1864.
• Tynes, Harriet Fudge, fl. 1864.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

Achilles James Tynes (fl. 1864) was a a Confederate captain with the Fifth Virginia Cavalry, from Tazewell County, Va. He served under Brigadier General John McCausland in the Shenandoah Valley and the raid on Chambersburg, Pa., in the summer of 1864. His wife was Harriet Fudge Tynes (fl. 1864).

The collection includes typed transcriptions of letters from Achilles James Tynes to Harriet Fudge Tynes, his wife, during the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and the raid on Chambersburg, Pa., under Brigadier General John McCausland in the summer of 1864; and correspondence, 1948-1951, concerning Achilles James Tynes's association with McCausland and the burning of Chambersburg on 31 July 1864.