Administrative Information

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Martin Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Biographical/Historical Information

Thomas A Martin was from Franklin County, North Carolina. He enlisted as a Corporal in Co. E., 13th N. C. May 9, 1861. He served as a sergeant, Lt. and Capt. He was wounded in the hip at Gettysburg and was promoted to major January 19, 1865. Martin was paroled at Appomattox. [Source: Kirk, Robert K., Lee's Colonels: a biographical register of the Field Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia. Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1979]

Scope and Content Information

This collection contains papers of the Martin family of North Carolina. It is primarily composed of papers and correspondence with relatives in North Carolina and Virginia, 1862-1868, belonging to Major Thomas Alston Martin who served in the 13th North Carolina Infantry. Several letters date to the Civil War and refer to camp conditions. It includes letters, 1862, of R. C. Martin written while serving in the Confederate Army. Many of the letters were written by women.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into 2 series. Series 1 contains letters and series 2 contains miscellaneous items.

This collection is arranged in chronological order by the dates on the letters.

Index Terms

Subjects:

• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 13th.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.