Guide to the Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick letters MSS.0657
Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
February 2008
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.0657
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (13 items)
- Dates:
1864
- Abstract:
Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains letters written to Hedrick by former students and others while they were prisoners of war in Union prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
Biographical/Historical note
Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, son of John Leonard and Elizabeth Sherwood Hedrick, was born 13 February 1827. He married Mary Ellen Thompson on 3 June 1852 in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. The couple had eight children: (1) John Thompson; (2) Charles Joseph; (3)Alice; (4) Jennie; (5) William Adam; (6) Henry Benjamin, (7) Ellen Annabella; and (8) Mary Elizabeth.
Hedrick was a professor of agriculture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, but was dismissed in 1856 for expressing antislavery views. He moved to Washington, D.C. where he became a patent examiner at the United Sates Patent Office.
He died on 2 September 1886 in Washington, at the age of 59.
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- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
- Processing Information:
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unknown, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
Source(s)
Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886 (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and Prisons (lcsh)
War and Military (localbroad)
Letters Box 640