Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820-1862) Papers, PC.25

[Identification of item], PC.25, Lawrence O'Bryan Branch Papers, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Papers of Branch, congressman (1855-1861) and Confederate brigadier general, consisting primarily of letters, orders, and reports relating to his brigade in 1862 at New Bern and in the Seven Days' campaign, including letters or orders from Joseph R. Anderson, Robert H. Cowan, Richard C. Gatlin, Maxcy Gregg, A. P. Hill, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert Ransom; reports by his colonels; copies of reports by Branch and of messages from Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johston, and Robert E. Lee; and lists of officers elected and relieved in reorganization of the 18th Regt. (Apr., 1862). Other papers include Branch's law license and commissions, one as director for the state in the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company (1852); his speeches on education, direct taxation, railroads, agriculture, the Lecompton Constitution, and federal nonintervention, with a copy of a proposed constitutional amendment concerning slavery, admission of new states, and fugitive slaves (n.d.). Also in collection are copies of wills of John Branch, Sr. (1805-1806), and speech of Florida territorial Gov. John Branch (1845).

Addition in 2012 of one photographic image of Confederate brigadier general Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, a carte de visite measuring 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches, probably taken in 1862 prior to the summer battles culminating in his death at Antietam, (17 September 1862). Signed on the bottom front, "Genl L. O'B. Branch."

Note that the image has been dated 1862 because the back of the carte de visite bears the logo of E. and H.T. Anthony (New York, N.Y.); and the history of the company indicates that the name was changed in 1862 from E. Anthony to E. and H.T. Anthony. The company was noted for publishing carte de visites and photographic albums using photographs (daguerreotypes and ambrotypes) taken by Mathew B. Brady and Brady's National Portrait Gallery. However, the photographer of this image cannot be stated with certainty.

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• •  Letters and papers (mounted volume)
  PC.25.1

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• •  Correspondence 1859-1865, 1897, and undated; Commissions and Appointments; Speeches; Miscellaneous
  PC.25.2

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Branch, Lawrence O'Bryan

Anderson, Joseph R.

Cowan, Robert H.

Gatlin, Richard C.

Gregg, Maxcy

Hill, A. P.

Johnston, Joseph E.

Lee, Robert Edward

Branch, John, Sr.

Branch, John

Gaston Railroad Company

Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 18th

Confederate States of America

Education

Railroads

Taxation

Lecompton Constitution

Slavery

Constitutional amendments

Officer

Seven Days' Battles, 1862

Brigadier Generals

Congressmen

Fugitive Slaves

Generals

Command of troops

Appointments, Military

Agriculture

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

United States--Politics and government

Florida Territory

New Bern (N.C.)

Gift