This series contains an academic transcript for Daniel H. Hill of South Carolina. It appears to be a summary of his academics at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Consider this item as a supplement to the item in series 13, folder 1.

This series contains agendas and/or itineraries from conventions for different organizations, predominantly the North Carolina Civil War Round Table.

This artifact is a plaque that commemorates Hubert F. McLendon’s service to and perfect attendance at the North Carolina Civil War Round Table from 1955 to 1987.

This series includes a special award given to Hubert McLendon for support of the Masters Degree program in National Security Studies at Georgetown University.

The book chapters included in this series generally pertain to the Civil War, concerned mainly with the military. There is one chapter documenting a family story of reunion entitled “The Reunion (A Dolls’ Story)” (5:5).

This series contains reviews written by Hubert McLendon on books of various topics. Most of the titles pertain to American history. Several of the reviews are biographies of Beethoven, Benjamin Franklin, Franz Schubert, Christopher Columbus, and John Quincy Adams. One review is on a book entitled by Samuel Flagg Bemis.

This series includes brochures about Gettysburg’s (military park) tourist attractions; Lee Chapel and Museum in Lexington, Virginia; genealogical research at the North Carolina State Archives; and the North Carolina Arsenal.

This series contains the by-laws for the Colonel John Sloan Camp Number 1290 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans based out of Greensboro, North Carolina.

This series includes catalogs that contain information about uniforms and flags used during the American Civil War. The “Catalogue of Uniforms” was published by The Museum of the Confederacy and includes pictures illustrating various descriptions of the uniforms featured in the catalog (9:1). Another catalog is entitled “Flags of the Civil War” and includes pictures of the flags used during the Civil War, along with price lists for different sized reproductions (9:2).

Included in this series are certificates commemorating the contribution and involvement of Hubert McLendon with various organizations. Two of the certificates pertain to membership within family clans, showing the ancestry of Mr. McLendon (10:5).

The constitutions included in this series are for the North Carolina Civil War Round Table.

Contained in this series are letters collected by Mr. McLendon. The letters are both personal and business, containing correspondence regarding conferences, organizations, invitations, literary inquiries, etc. The first letter addressed to Mr. McLendon is from 1947 and many of the letters in the following decades are evidence of Mr. McLendon’s interest in collecting author’s signatures for the books in his library, now the McLendon Civil War Collection at the Carol Grotnes Belk Library at Elon University.

The earliest letters date from 1862 and are personal letters from the Civil War era. One letter was written by an H.G. McMullan from Camp L’an in June 1862 (12:2). Another folder contains copies of letters from the Bedinger-Dandridge Family papers and the Marshall McDonald papers (12:3). Folder 4 in this series includes a copy of General Robert Edward Lee’s farewell letter to his troops at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. “A Few Reminiscences by Mrs. C.W. Hollowell” dates from 1899 and recollects her encounter with the ‘Maple Leaf prisoners’ in June of 1863 (12:5). The undated correspondence folder (12:1) contains letters written to Mr. McLendon in answer to inquiries about his family genealogy, in addition to copies of handwritten letters most likely from the 1800s. All the letters mentioned above from the 1860s are facsimiles, not originals.

The majority of this series chronicles the letters Mr. McLendon sent and received pertaining to his interest in the Civil War (predominately from the Confederate point of view), including letters seeking author’s signatures for his extensive book collection.

This series contains a list of the courses studied at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, from the first class year to the fourth class year. This item is an attachment to the academic transcript in series 1, folder 1.

Included in this series is paper money mainly from the Confederacy, but currency from 1776 is also included.

This series includes pages copied from a W.H. or M.J. Clark’s diary.

Several of the essays in this series were written by Hubert McLendon. These essays appear to have been written while he was in college or graduate school, and are about a variety of topics including (but not limited to), Rudyard Kipling, Beethoven, American education, and Mr. McLendon’s faith and beliefs (16:3). The remaining essays relate to the Civil War. One essay was written by the former Library Director at Elon College, Plummer Alston Jones, Jr. It is an account of Hubert McLendon and the uniqueness of his extensive Civil War book collection. Also included in that essay is biographical information regarding Mr. McLendon, plus information about his donation of books and personal papers to the Carol Grotnes Belk Library at Elon University (16:13).

The flyer dated roughly from the 1860s is a copy of two missals, including a military draft signed by William B. Coulter, Captain and Provost Marshall of the 21st District in Pennsylvania (17:1). The other flyer pertains to the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization regarding newsletter information (17:2).

This series combines the majority of information that Mr. McLendon collected regarding several family genealogies. Included in this series is information on John Spencer Turner, the Eli and Elizabeth Russell family, the John Morris family, the McLendon family, Robert E. Lee, Carmi Kilpatrick McNeely, Dr. Francis E. Asbury, and the Ricketts family. It contains family trees, typed up accounts/recollections, and lists of names, though not for each family or individual.

Included in this series is a paper written by R.S. Clemmons entitled “Guidelines for Letters and Articles to the Media.” The guidelines were provided at the request of members from the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Military Order of Stars and Bars “to enable them to respond to matter[s] appearing in the media which is inaccurate and detrimental to our work in conserving the history of the south and its honorable heritage.”

This series includes invitations to conferences, banquets, and meetings of various organizations.

The majority of articles in this series are scholarly works about battles and people from the Civil War.

This series contains a varied assortment of lists, including Confederate Generals from North Carolina to the top twenty songs of the Civil War. Also within this series are lists of Civil War libraries. One list includes the titles in the Civil War library of A.E. Dyer, Sr. (22:2) and the other is a list of Civil War books donated by James H. McEwen, Jr. and Mrs. John A. McCrary, Jr (22:3).

Included in this series is the lyrics to “Dixie” (23:1), as well as three copies of “Popular Songs of the Confederacy” compiled by Plummer Alston Jones, Jr. with three separate dates. Two copies were compiled on behalf of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars Garnett-Pettigrew Chapter (23:2, 4) and the third for the Alamance County Genealogical Society (23:3).

Similar to the journal articles series, the magazine clippings in this series are topical about the Civil War. The clippings, however, include stories and personal accounts without the mammoth length and academic considerations.

The magazines in this category include the following titles: , , , , and . Other titles are included, but these titles have the most issues. The general dates of the magazines are from the 1980s into the early 1990s.

This series primarily contains battlefield maps, including three series showing battle progression, including the Battle of Gettysburg (25:3), the Battle of Blackburn’s Ford/First Battle of Manassas (25:8) and the Second Battle of Manassas (25:9). The Gettysburg battle maps were reprinted in 1912, with original date of print as 1876. Another map of interest is a picture map printed in 1956, showing locations of Civil War battles across the United States (25:4). It has color pictures representing relevant moments during the Civil War.

Included in this series are several lists of members from different organizations and chapters such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (26:1, 3, 4, and 5), the Company of Military Historians (26:2), and Military Order of the Stars and Bars (26:5). Of these and other organizations, there are several rosters and lists from different years.

In this series, the items are categorized alphabetically by organization and then date. These memberships cards belonged to Hubert McLendon and document each year of his membership in several organizations, including Clan MaClennan Association (27:1), the North Carolina Civil War Round Table (27:2), North Carolina Literary and Historical Society (27:3), North Carolina Symphony (27:4), the Order of Lafayette (27:5), Retired Officers Association (27:6), Sons of Confederate Veterans (27:7), the Tennessee Historical Society (27:8), Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees (27:9), and Virginia Historical Society (27:10).

This series contains history and general information regarding two organizations: the Sons of Confederate Veterans Cabell-Graves Camp Number 1402 (28:1) and the Order of the Southern Cross (28:2).

This series contains a handwritten letter to Mr. Hubert McLendon, inviting him to become a member of the Society of the Order of the Southern Cross.

This series contains a menu from a The Sons of Confederate Veterans dinner in honor of Mr. Betram Hayes-Davis.

Included in this series are minutes from different organizations such as the Military Order of Stars and Bars (31:1), the Sons of Confederate Veterans (31:2), and the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Military Order of the Stars and Bars 1988 reunion (31:3).

This series has sheet music with lyrics for “The Bonnie Blue Flag” and “The Southern Girl or Homespun Dress.”

This series includes newsletter clippings found amidst the many newsletters that Mr. Hubert McLendon received. One clipping entitled “Going Home with the Beau Sabreur” discusses Major General J.E.B. Stuart and his love for his home, Laurel Hill, located in Virginia (36:1).

This series includes the newsletters collected by Hubert McLendon from organizations and associations he belonged to and participated in. See the section below titled “Detailed Description of the Collection” for a complete list of the newsletters included in this collection.

Most of the newspaper clippings contained in this series pertain to the Civil War. Some, however, are obituaries. One clipping is a copy of an article written about Mr. Hubert McLendon (38:21).

This series contains several complete newspapers found among Mr. Hubert McLendon’s papers. There are six facsimile newspapers that were printed between 1861 and 1864 (39:1).

Included in this series are pamphlets concerning the Civil War. One pamphlet contains an essay entitled “With Drum and Fife…and Lute Song” (40:2). Another is “Facts about the Civil War” from 1960, with meaning of the flag, starting line-ups, battles and losses, Civil War personalities, comparisons, statistics, etc. (40:3). In the last folder of this series are five pamphlets pertaining to Confederate currency (40:4). Each pamphlet discusses different lithographs printed by the Confederate states.

This series contains photographs of Hubert McLendon, Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and others. These photos are not originals; except for Mr. McLendon’s. Several of the photographs are reproductions of soldiers who fought during the Civil War (41:2, 6, 9, and 10). Also contained in this series is a Confederate Portrait Album, containing facsimile pictures of Generals, Lieutenant-Generals, Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, Naval commanders, President Jefferson Davis and members of his Cabinet (41:1). The photographs appear to come from newspaper prints. Additionally, there are photographs taken during a tour of Petersburg National Battlefield (41:5).

This series contains portraits of Confederate soldiers, including a print of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The other portraits are copies included on a handout entitled “The Citadel’s Brigadier Generals.”

This series contains a poem entitled “Requiem for General A. P. ‘Little Powell’ Hill: A Nation’s Wail.” The author of the poem appears to be Dr. Calvin D. Jarrett.

Several of the postcards in this series are pictures of either Confederate people or historic military sites. Some are invitational postcards mailed to Hubert McLendon regarding special talks for the Museum of the Confederacy Evening Series Program.

This series includes two posters regarding the bail bond of Jefferson Davis and a summary of the Civil War with Generals’ names around the edge.

This series contains a synopsis of a presentation entitled “The Cows Tails Mystery: The Siege and Capture of Harpers Ferry” (46:1). The presenter is not designated on the synopsis.

This series primarily contains a miscellaneous collection of prints. One print commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg (47:2). Also contained in the series are a 55th North Carolina Regiment sample print and an exhibit packet of the T. Price Gibson Civil War Collection (47:1). There is also a form for the General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (47:1).

Included in this series are various prints and drawings, including two photographs. One is of Union commanders and the other of Confederate commanders, printed in 1961 (48:1). Also there are some colorful drawings of a Drum Major uniform and a Sergeant uniform from 1861 with descriptions attached (48:3). Contained in this series is a handwritten map of Danville, Virginia in 1829 (48:4). Additionally, there are two sketches, one of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and the other of Robert E. Lee (48:5).

This series contains a miscellaneous assortment of programs from church services, memorial services, banquets, etc.

This series includes a manuscript written by Paul Hamilton plus a typed copy of his obituary. Also contained is a typed copy of two letters exchanged between James Madison while President of the United States of America and Paul Hamilton. The manuscript is a memoir about Paul Hamilton’s family with reflections on himself and his life.

This series is a collection of reports from various organizations. The reports mainly provide updates about what is happening within the organizations. The organizations included are the Military Order of the Stars and Bars (51:1), the Museum of the Confederacy (51:2), and the Sons of Confederate Veterans Cabell-Graves Camp Number 1402 (51:3).

Included in this series are research notes regarding the analysis of General Robert Edward Lee’s hand writing. The packet does not state who did the analysis but it describes the purpose of hand writing analysis and includes the analysis of General Lee’s.

In this series is a resolution that was being considered by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars in 1987. The resolution states, “A resolution of support for a special Confederate memorial service in recognition of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the year of eighteen hundred and sixty-three.”

There are two sermons in this series: “Our Sins of Omission” by Dr. Tom B. Anderson (54:1) and “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” (by unknown preacher) (54:2).

There are several speeches in this series that are on various topics. Some titles are as follows, “Sleep On, Silent America” aired over WBBB Radio out of Burlington, North Carolina (55:1); “He Stands Alone” a memorial address by Archie Davis for the 100th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s death (55:1), delivered in October 1970; a speech by Dr. David L. Smiley from Wake Forest University to the Sons of Confederate Veterans at Greensboro College, September 1986 (55:2); and two speeches by Roy S. Clemmons, M.D. (55:3). One of Clemmons’ speeches was delivered at the North Carolina State Capitol for the Confederate Memorial Weekend May 15, 1988 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

These boxes contain index cards of titles within a collection that was donated to the Carol Grotnes Belk Library at Elon University by Mr. Hubert McLendon. The index cards are organized alphabetically by author’s last name. Box seven contains A-K and Box eight includes L-Z.

These boxes contain index cards of titles within a collection that was donated to the Carol Grotnes Belk Library at Elon University by Mr. Hubert McLendon. The index cards are organized alphabetically by author’s last name. Box seven contains A-K and Box eight includes L-Z.