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Coltrane family papers include correspondence, financial papers, and legal records. Includes a letter from the 11th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers at Camp Rhett, Manassas, Va., in which the author discusses the shipment of liquor by the Southern Express Railroad to Manassas Junction. Stephen Coltrane of the 4th Regiment, South Carolina Cavalry wrote of personal matters and his regiment's position in Virginia, hardships, and loss of horses. A non-military letter describes churches; schools; and the prices of land, produce, horses, and wagons in Ozark, Mo. Other correspondence topics include a school in Liberty, N.C., the price of stoves in Asheboro, N.C., and travel by horse and buggy in North Carolina. Other materials include an account book of expenses for the Methodist Protestant Female College in Jamestown, N.C.; legal records, including slave bills of sale from Randolph County; land plats, some of which are from Randolph County; an 1859 Court of Equity case involving the Gardner Hill Mining Company in Guilford County; and financial records, which include a pocket account book concerning agriculture in Randolph County. |
