John B. Alexander Papers, 1855-1911.
Papers of a Mecklenburg County physician. Includes account books, medical journals, correspondence, memorabilia, and writings. Also documents his service as a surgeon in the 37th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate Army.

Arthur and Farrar Family Papers
Contains personal and business correspondence and plantation account books of John Clough Farrar, wholesale grocer and cotton broker in antebellum Charleston and planter in Union County during and after the Civil War.

Banks Family Papers
Papers of several generations of a family active in the Presbyterian Church. Includes personal narratives of Henry Howard Banks service in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War.

Rufus Clay Barringer Collection
Items relating to Confederate General and Charlottean Rufus Clay Barringer. Photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles and a copy of Barringer's diary while imprisoned at Fort Delaware in 1865.

Penelope Little Blount Letter
Photostatic copy of letter to Dolley Madison praising John Payne Todd, Madison's son by her first marriage, and describing the British Army's advance on New Bern and Washington, N.C., during the War of 1812.

Bobo Burnett Papers
Papers of a Spartanburg, South Carolina native related to his service in the 117th Engineer Regiment, 42nd Division, American Expeditionary Force during World War I.

Richard L. Casanova Papers
Papers of a Charlotte scientist, author, and collector. Includes personal correspondence during his service in Europe with the U.S. Army 503rd Parachute Regiment during World War II.

Harry L. Dalton Papers
Papers of a Charlotte business executive. Includes correspondence documenting his service with the U.S. Army in Europe during World War I and with the War Production Board during World War II.

Emma Echols Collection
Primarily photocopies and transcripts of the antebellum and Civil War papers of William Leonidas Faulkner, who served in Company I, 17th South Carolina Volunteers and died in a Union prison camp

Nicholas Biddle Gibbon Papers, 1799 - 2000
Thirty-page typescript transcription of the Civil War memoirs of Nicholas Biddle Gibbon, describing his service in North Carolina and Virginia as a drill master and commissary in the 1st and 28th North Carolina Regiments.

Virginia Caroline Goodwin Papers
Various papers, including drafts of a love letter to Goodwin from David R. Autry, a Confederate soldier stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, and two poems, presumably by Goodwin, one of which prays for an end to the war.

Harrell Family Papers
Manuscript autobiographies of William Bernard Harrell, songwriter, physician, and Baptist minister. Among other topics, Harrell describes the Nat Turner-led slave insurrection and his tour of duty at a Confederate hospital in Virginia.

Roy E. Hoke Papers
Papers of one of Charlotte's first psychologists, who served in World War I as a sergeant in the Medical Corps and assistant to the chaplain at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. and in World War II as a first lieutenant and chaplain stationed in Ohio.

Mary Anna Morrison Jackson Papers
Papers of the widow of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, including photocopies of letters from Jackson to Jessie Randolph Smith pertaining to pensions for veterans and widows of veterans of the Mexican War.

Bleeka Ritch Kerr Papers
Letters from soldiers to Bleeka Ritch during World War I and letters to Helen Johnston from soldiers during World War II. Includes a piece of canvas from a World War I German warplane.

John Kimbrough Parole, April 11, 1783
A parole, signed by John Kimbrough and witnessed by O. H. Williams, swearing Kimbrough’s pledge to no longer take up arms on behalf of the King of England, against the United States, dated April 11, 1781.

Knox Family Papers, 1762 - 1945
The Knox family papers is a small collection generated by the Knox and related families (including the Dunlap, Lowrie, and Porter families) documenting much of their daily activities, mostly from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Most of the papers in this collection are letters to and from family members, promissory notes that document short-term loans between friends and family members, papers concerning the settlement of estates of deceased people, the ownership of slaves and events during the Civil War.

Clarence O. Kuester Papers
Primarily letters to his family in Charlotte by a member of the U.S. Army 38th Evacuation Hospital Unit while stationed in North Africa and Italy during World War II.

Joseph B. Mathews
Collection of 96 letters written by Pvt. Mathews while stationed at the base hospital at Camp Greene during World War I, to his girlfriend, Eva La Flamme.

McCoy Family Papers, 1796 - 2001
This collection contains papers and photographs generated by the McCoy and related families in Mecklenburg County from 1796 to 2001. Most of the papers were produced by Albert McCoy, who lived from 1843 to 1925. Other papers were generated by some of his children. Other families related to the McCoys were the Gluyas, Houston, and Nisbet families. Because the McCoys owned slaves, some of the files in this collection concern a slave cemetery and traditional stories told by slaves that the McCoy family owned. There is also a small quantity of letters in this collection written by soldiers serving in France during WWI.

Raymond M. Mitchell Papers
Papers related to Mitchell's service in the U.S. Air Force Reserve with the 323rd Troop Carrier Squadron (Reserve) at Morris Field in Charlotte, and with the 302nd Troop Carrier Wing (Reserve) at Marietta Army Air Field in Marietta, Georgia.

North Carolina Troops. 11th Regiment., 1862 - 1863
Collection 415 contains a small assortment of papers (13 items) generated by the officers of the 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment (also known as the 11th North Carolina Troops) between 1862 and 1863. These papers illustrate routine activities involved in commanding a Confederate regiment.

Buford Patterson Diary, 1941 - 1945
Diary of a Charlotte native documenting his participation in the Bataan Death March and his confinement in POW camps in the Philippines and Japan during WWII.

William H. Platt Papers
Primarily photocopies of letters from a Union soldier and his brother, Jesse, to family members in New York, regarding their service in Virginia and South Carolina.

F. Marion Redd Papers
Papers of a mayor of Charlotte and judge of the Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court. Includes material on the United Confederate Veterans Reunion held in Charlotte in 1929.

Richard Lee Clark Collection
Collection of Civil War documents relating to the daily operations of the Union Army at their camp at Port Royal, South Carolina.

Annie Bryant Robey Papers
Material related to American Red Cross drives in Charlotte during World War I, including aid to the Belgians.

Nathaniel Shober Siewers Papers
Typescripts of letters written to his parents in Salem, North Carolina as a student at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, as a Confederate Army soldier in North Carolina and Virginia, and after the war as a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania

Herbert Spaugh Papers
Papers of a pastor of the Little Church on the Lane in Charlotte, a bishop of the Moravian Church in America, and leader in the Charlotte community. Includes extensive correspondence with U.S. servicemen affiliated with the Moravian church during their overseas service during World War II.

Andrew Baxter Springs Letter
Three-page letter (12-15-1864) from Andrew Baxter Springs to Confederate Congressman F. B. Sexton. In the letter, Springs expresses his optimism about the Civil War, with specific references about Union general William T. Sherman and Confederate commander Robert E. Lee.

Torrance and Banks Family Papers
Papers of Hugh Torance, his son James Galbraith Torrance, and his grandson Richard Allison Torrance, concerning their mercantile, planting, and milling operations at Cedar Grove plantation in Mecklenburg County. Includes Revolutionary War service records and Civil War correspondence.

United States Army, North Carolina Regiment (1st), Company M Photograph Album
Photographs taken by an unidentified member of one of three companies of troops organized in Charlotte for service in the Spanish-American War of 1898.

United States Army Evacuation Hospital (38th) Records
Records of a medical unit, formed in 1940 by doctors at Charlotte Memorial Hospital (now Carolinas Medical Center) to support front-line aid stations during World War II in North Africa and Italy. Contains official reports, a unit history, photographs, correspondence, and maps of encampments.

Kenneth Wilson Whitsett Papers
Papers of a Charlotte historian, artist, and co-founder of Pictorial Engraving Co. Includes World War I correspondence of Whitsett and his brother and Confederate Army ration receipts.

Wilkes Family Papers
Contains papers of Admiral Charles Wilkes pertaining to the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-42, papers of his son, John Wilkes, including naval journals, and records of the firm Edmund Wilkes & Brother concerning construction of the Piedmont and the Chatham railroads during the Civil War.

Miles L. Wriston Papers
Primarily financial records, including Confederate and North Carolina state bonds (1862-64), and shares of stock (1866) in the Rock Island Manufacturing Company.