Robert March Hanes papers (#4534)
Subtitle: Selected letters, 1917-1918
Contributors: Hanes, Robert March, 1890-1959; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Soldiers; Officers; Military life; World War, 1914-1918; Campaigns; American Personal narratives; United States. Army; United States. Army. Field Artillery, 113th. Battery A.
Other titles: Selected letters, 1917-1918; North Carolinians and the Great War.
Description: Collection of letters written to his wife, Mildred Borden Hanes, during his service as an officer in World War I; they provide detailed descriptions of military life, relationships with other officers and with his orderly, including remarks on conditions in the trenches and the quality of army food, actual fighting conditions along the French front and mopping up activities as the American army advanced and the German army fell back and how much he missed his new bride.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed June 26, 2002)

Includes images of his handwritten letters and the envelopes used to mail them.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North Carolinians and the Great War.

Text transcribed by Amy Davis. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans, Melissa Meeks, and Leslie Sult. Text encoded by Melissa Meeks and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Robert March Hanes papers, 1908-1919. Transcript of the manuscript. Call number SHC #4534 (Manuscripts Dept., Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader.