MS067
ELLEN
DOUGLAS BELLAMY JOURNAL
1861-1862
This collection consists entirely of photocopies of pages from a journal or school exercise book kept by Miss Ellen Douglas Bellamy during the Civil War. Some time later, probably in the 1870s the journal was used as a scrap book, and printed clippings were pasted over the handwritten text. The collection includes copies of pages both before and after clippings were stripped away.
The later clippings are primarily selections from popular magazines and are characteristic of sentimental Victorian didactic verse; eulogizing lost loves, dead children or the the fallen dead of the Confederacy or reminders of the transitory nature of worldly existence. A few of the printed entries can be dated and the author is given; most, however, are from anonymous sources.
The handwritten entries in journal form are dated; many of these entries are quite brief, little more than a sentence or two about the weather, others give a slightly more detailed picture about life in Wilmington during the war. Interspersed are what appear to be brief school girl essays, copies of patriotic Confederate news articles, accounts of the depredations of barbarous Yankee invaders, sentimental verse, and what appears to be sentences written as either handwriting exercises or for punishment.
These papers have been designated Accession Number 67 of the Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297.
Contact the Special Collections Librarian for information about publication rights.
There are no access restrictions on this
collection.
Processed by Patricia B. McGee
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library
The University of North Carolina at
Wilmington
1997
Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File
067/1/1
p.21- 48, dates include April- May 1861
Fragment
Hand copied
newspaper account from Wilmington Journal
Journal entries
067/1/2
p.
51-53 and 57-61, June 11, 1861- July 1861
Journal entries
067/1/3
p.
62-66, 1862
New Years Address
Journal Entry "Our Flag is Here."
[verse]; "Pets" [essay]
067/1/4
p.
67-71 included dates, January 17, 1862, January 21, 1862
"News from the Coast," news article copied from Charleston
Courier
"Gipsy's Chorus" [verse]
"All by the Shady Greenwood
Tree," [verse]
"In the Grove" [verse]
"Away the morning freshly
breaking" [verse]
Journal entry
067/1/5
p.
72-76, 81-[87] 1862
"Yankee Cruelty" [essay,
author unknown]
067/1/6
[p.
88-89] [p. 89-91] February 14, 1863, [p. 91-93] February 22,
1862
"The Enemy at Edenton" [essay from
Wilming[ton] Journal
Essay on St. Valentine. Essay on George
Washington
067/1/7
[p.
94-107]
Copies of correspondence about "Carolina's Sons are Ready" [song] by
George Davis written for Wilmington Light Infantry, to be sung to air "Dixie['s]
Land" and text of song.
"Let me kiss him for His Mother" [fragment,
verse]
"Politics in Poetry--Songs for All Campaign Song"
"Dixie Land"
[verse]
"Let me kiss him for His Mother"
"North Carolina's War Song,"
air: "Annie Laurie"
"Old Style and New Style" [essay]
"Mr. S.P.
Rothwell, Prin, Mrs. Mary P. Rothwell School at Wilmington, NC 1875" written at
bottom of p. 107
067/1/8
[p.
109-131]
"The seven wonders of the world" [essay]
"The City of Nashville"
[essay]
"The names of the Months" and "The Days of the week" [essays]
"Sentiments of Flowers"
"Translation of the Bible" [fragment, essay]
Poetry "March" [fragment, essay]
067/1/9
p.
3, ?,?,13-24, 27-28, 32, 35-38,40-41,43-44, 54, 10 pages not
numbered
Photocopies of Journal pages before
clippings were stripped off
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.