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Collection Number: 02184-z

Collection Title: Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt Papers, 1861-1865; 1868-1955

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Size 14 items.
Abstract Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt (1839-1895) was born in Mobile, Ala., and came to North Carolina in 1870. The collection contains a Civil War muster roll of Company E, 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment; military travel permits and passes, 1864-1865; a photograph, 1862, of Robert E. Lee with his son, George Washington Custis Lee, and his aide-de-camp, Walter Herron Taylor; and microfilm of papers of Jenny Fleetwood Westfeldt, daughter of Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt, including essays about her childhood, her family, and the Westfeldt farm (Rugby Grange in Henderson County, N.C.), and notes by Dodette Westfeldt Grinnell on birds observed in western North Carolina. The originals of the Jenny Fleetwood Westfeldt papers are at the Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, N.C.
Creator Westfeldt, Charles Fleetwood.
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.
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 Fleetwood Westfeldt Papers, #2184-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Additional Descriptive Resources
A paper finding aid is filed in folder 1.
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

Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, October 2010

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Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt (1839-1895) was born in Mobile, Ala., and came to North Carolina in 1870.

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The collection contains a Civil War muster roll of Company E, 3rd Alabama Infantry Regiment; military travel permits and passes, 1864-1865; a photograph, 1862, of Robert E. Lee with his son, George Washington Custis Lee, and his aide-de-camp, Walter Herron Taylor; and microfilm of papers of Jenny Fleetwood Westfeldt, daughter of Charles Fleetwood Westfeldt, including essays about her childhood, her family, and the Westfeldt farm (Rugby Grange in Henderson County, N.C.), and notes by Dodette Westfeldt Grinnell on birds observed in western North Carolina. The originals of the Jenny Fleetwood Westfeldt papers are at the Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, N.C.

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