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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Chauncey Brunson Welton Letters, #3368, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcriptions available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David G. Welton of Charlotte, N.C., June 1958.

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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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010

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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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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• Copperhead movement--Public opinion.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)--Public opinion--History--19th century.
• Family--Ohio--Social life and customs.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Inauguration.
• Secession.
• Sectionalism (United States)
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 103rd (1862-1865)
• Welton, Chauncey Brunson, 1844-1908.

Chauncey Brunson Welton (1844-1908) of Weymouth, Medina County, Ohio, was a soldier in the 103rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, United States Army. Welton was the son of Charles Welton.

The collection includes letters, 1862-1865, from Chauncey Brunson Welton while a federal soldier of the 103rd Ohio Regiment serving in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, to his parents and other members of his family. Welton discusses his personal experiences, his opinions of such political matters as union and secession and the Copperheads. He was in Washington, D.C., January-April 1865, and describes the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. There are also a few postwar items, including family letters.