Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Donated by Claudia Scott McCallum Zarn and family.
Hugh Bowen McCallum diary and sermon book, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Collection includes one Civil War Diary and one sermon book.
Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Hugh Bowen McCallum was born in Tennessee on January 9, 1835. During the Civil War, he served as a minister in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he lived in South Carolina and moved to Florida in 1867. He was the first minister at the First Baptist Church in Lake City, Columbia County and became the publisher and editor of The Florida Baptist. He founded The Florida Union, which became The Florida Times-Union. He died on January 31, 1883, in Jacksonville and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.