I recently discovered the Catherine McGeachy Buie Papers online. As usual, my discovery was by accident. The collection is hosted by Duke University on their “Libraries” website. The collection contains scans of hundreds of documents, mostly letters sent to ‘Kate’ McGeachy.
As I skimmed through the documents, I found letters written by soldiers in the 51st North Carolina during the war. I looked at every document in the collection and created a Table of Contents for the files. You can look at the list below to see if any of the letters belong to your ancestors. The entire Table of Contents is HERE. The scans are on the Duke University website at Catherine McGeachy Buie papers, 1819-1899. / Digital Collections / Duke Digital RepositoryCatherine McGeachy Buie papers, 1819-1899. / Digital Collections / Duke Digital Repository
NOTE: the location for the images is listed as [Folder]/[Scan #]
Cobb, Stephen J., Sr.: 1863/207 [Cobb’s son served in the 51st, but this letter contains information about some of the soldiers in Company D]
Council, William: 1864/75
Currie, Archibald M.: 1862/163, 1863/7, 71, 87, 93
Currie, Daniel McG.: 1863/57, 245, 273
Little, Gilbert G.: 1862/81, 85, 109, 117, 127, 181; 1863/5, 47, 83, 283; 1864/207
Little, James A.: 1863/183
Little, Robert F.: 1862/53, 103, 121, 141, 189
Malloy, John D.: 1862/167; 1863/97; 1864/121
McDonald, James A.: 1862/151; 1863/59, 113; 1864/9
McGeachy, John D.: Catherine’s brother; he wrote more than 60 of the letters in the collection
McGoogan, Hugh: 1862/147
Rozier, Robert A.: 1863/223, 225
Shaw, Archibald J.: 1863/241
Unknown: the content of these letters indicate that the writer was serving with the 51st North Carolina, but the letters were not signed with a full name, making it hard to determine who the writer was: 1963/63, 149, 171, 235; 1865: 43, 45
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