James I. Metts Papers, PC.762

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James I. Metts Papers, PC.762

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Title
James I. Metts Papers
Call Number
PC.762
Creator
Unknown
Date
1862-1882
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Papers of Lieutenant Metts of New Hanover Co., including commissions in Co. G, 3rd Regt. NCT, and letters to him as prisoner of war, Johnson's Island, Ohio, from his minister George Patterson and from friends in army about marriages, promotions, deaths and captures in his regiment, one from officer imprisoned at Ft. Delaware (1864). Also handbills of plays staged on Johnson's Island; Metts's appointment as officer in charge of ambulances, Grimes's division (1865); contemporary copy of Gen. R. E. Lee's farewell address; and letters concerning return of his sword by Maryland doctor (1882).

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Metts, James I.
  2. Patterson, George
  3. Lee, Robert E.
  4. Grimes, Bryan
  5. Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 3rd. Company G
  6. Confederate States of America
  7. Lieutenants
  8. Prisoners of war
  9. Military prisons
  10. Clergy
  11. Death
  12. Officer
  13. Weddings
  14. Marriage
  15. Entertainment Events
  16. Appointments and Retirements
  17. Promotions
  18. Generals
  19. Physicians
  20. Farewells
  21. Swords
  22. Ambulances
  23. Major Generals
  24. New Hanover County (N.C.)
  25. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  26. Johnson's Island (Ohio)
  27. Fort Delaware (Del.)
  28. Maryland