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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"James Harwell (1826-1886), a Catawba County farmer, was the son of Mason Harwell and his first wife, Peggy Lineberger. In 1847 he married Jane Harriet Fisher by whom he had two sons born prior to the Civil War, Henderson Hayes Harwell and William R. Harwell. His family papers include a total of 70 letters, 46 of them written during the Civil War. In addition to the Civil War letters, there are 24 family letters dating from December, 1847, to July 24, 1906. There are also bills and receipts, crop liens, and miscellaneous manuscript and printed matter.    By his father's second marriage, James Harwell had a half--brother, Cama Harwell, who enlisted at age 21 in Co. A, 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment (\"the Catawba Rifles\") on April 27, 1861. There are five letters written by him to his brother James, ranging in date from June 9 to Dec. 31, 1861, and August 6, 1862. There is a sixth letter to James and Jane Harwell written by Sgt. James Little of Company K, 23d North Carolina Infantry Regiment, dated September 5,'1861, in which he addresses them as brother and sister. The burden of these six letters is news of kinsmen and neigh�bors in the army.  The remaining Civil War letters in the collection are those of James Harwell, his wife, and their children during the period Harwell was away from home in military service. There is no service record for James Harwell in surviving official records of the Confederate Army, but these letters show that he served from at least as early as June 2, 1863, to as late as May 3, 1864, in Company C, Mallette's Battalion (Camp Guard). During this period Harwell's principal duty was the rounding up of deserters from the Confederate Army, and the last half year was spent on deserters from the area of Bethel Church in southern Alamance County. His letters mention specific forays against deserters, treatment of deserter's families by the men in Mallette's Battalion, and, earlier, the guarding of a body of Yankee prisoners in Raleigh en route to Richmond.    In addition to the Civil War letters, there are 24 family letters dating from December, 1847, to July 24, 1906. Three of the letters are from Harwell's sister and her husband in Missouri, Martha and Aaron R. Clubb. The two letters from 1859 and 1860 appear to relate to the estate of their deceased father, Mason Harwell. The letter of September 22, 1868, speaks of the growing strength of the Methodist Church, South, in Missouri after having been \"stopt for 2 years by that abominable Radical party,\" and urges Harwell not to vote for Ulysses S. Grant who, he says, \"haint got sense enough to make a Sherriff.\" Five others of the letters, 1879-1884, relate to the estate of a neighbor, Jacob Hill, two dating from 1898 and 1899 relate to the estate of Frances Reid Fleming, and most of the remaining letters, 1900--1906, relate to the condition of Jane Harriet (Fisher) Harwell and the efforts by her children to secure her admission to the State Hospital in Morganton.    Miscellaneous materials in the collection include bills and receipts, 1851-1903; cotton liens, 1880-1883; a nursery bill from Jamestown Nurseries, 1883; an undated handbook published by a fraternal insurance association, The Improved Order of Heptasophs (founded in 1878); and an election ticket for county officers apparently dating from 1872. Tradesmen's circulars include a broadside issued in 1879 by the Davidson College, N.C,, general and cotton commission merchants, Stough & Sloan; a circa 1870 circular put out by the Home Shuttle Sewing Machine company; an undated handbill of an English photographer, C. H. Wood, announcing his services in the town of Davidson College; and an undated program for a motion picture and slide show to be shown at the Marvel theater (presumably at Davidson College, N.C.).    Educational materials in the papers include penmanship exercises by Harwell's oldest son made on loose sheets, rather than in a copybook, toward the end of the Civil War, and an issue of a child's periodical, Sunlight for the Young (Vol.XI, no.6). The collection also includes articles of agreement between J. Y. Miller and subscribing families in the vicinity of Wilson Schoolhouse in Catawba County to hold a six-week singing school in 1871.    Religious materials are represented by an 1891 lease for a camping lot adjoining the Methodist meeting place, Rock Spring Camp Ground, in Lincoln County, and a popular piece of pseudepigrapha, \"A Letter of Jesus Christ\" being circulated by a man from Honolulu, Craven County, N.C � in 1900.    The collection is completed by a folder of materials relating to Mrs. Harwell's family, the Fishers, and the possibility that they might be entitled to an estate in Germany left by Lues Fisher who died in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1773."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"3 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["James Harwell Papers. Private Collections. 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