Excerpt from The Civil War: Confederacy; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Lincoln-related documents turn up in the _most unlikely places. The Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is rich in manuscript materials having to do with Lincoln's Con federate antagonists, but it has never been considered a major source of Lincolniana. The published catalogue of this vast collection, a substantial volume in itself, contains a subject guide, and there is only one reference to Abraham Lincoln in the whole index. However, it has proved to be a reference worth exploring. For many years, this collection has contained the papers of Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson. Dawson is typical of the sorts of persons about whom one would seek information in the Southern Historical Collection. Born in Char leston, South Carolina, in 1829, Dawson was the son of Lawrence E. And Mary Rhodes Dawson. He moved to Alabama in 1842, where he attended St. Joseph' s Col lege in Spring Hill. He be came a lawyer in 1851 and moved to Selma, where he became a prominent citizen and a minor power in the Democratic party. Dawson married twice in the 1850's; both Annie E. (mathews) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.