William Pelham papers, 1820, 1856-1861, and 1922, Benton (now Calhoun) County, Alabama : also North Carolina

Author/Creator:: Pelham, William, 1836-1889
Publication/Creation:: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, ©1991
Format:: Book
Is Part Of:: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, pt. 7, reel 8.

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Full Title:: William Pelham papers, 1820, 1856-1861, and 1922, Benton (now Calhoun) County, Alabama : also North Carolina
Series Titles:: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part 7, Alabama ; reel 8
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. reel 8.

Additional Author/Creators:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Subjects:: Pelham, William,1836-1889--Correspondence
Pelham, Atkinson,1797---Correspondence
Pelham, Martha Montford McGehee,1805---Correspondence
Pelham, Peter,1840-
Pelham family
University of North Carolina (1793-1962).Dialectic Society
Families--Alabama--Social life and customs
Mothers and sons--Alabama--History--19th century--Sources
Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
Alexandria (Ala.)--Social life and customs

Summary:: Members of the Pelham family of Alexandria, Ala., included William; his mother, Martha Montford McGehee Pelham (b. 1805) of Person County, N.C.; and his father, Atkinson Pelham (b. 1797), physician and cotton planter, who attended the University of North Carolina, ca. 1820, and later settled in Alabama. William had many siblings, among them Peter (b. 1840), and Confederate hero Major John Pelham, "the gallant Pelham." The collection includes nine letters, 15 June 1856-March 1859, to William Pelham at school from his mother, and a few other items. Pelham's mother wrote chiefly of family and neighborhood sicknesses and deaths, about her garden, and about feeling deserted by her children. There is one letter, dated 24 May 1861, to William from his father, describing the destruction by hail of the corn and cotton crops and telling about local preparations for war. Also included are Atkinson Pelham's 1820 certificate of membership in the Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina and a typed transcription of an autobiographical fragment written by Peter Pelham.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
General Note:: Title from reel guide.
Accompanied by a printed reel guide.