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- Todd Kesselring on 27 April 1862: “Fear of conscription threatens great injury here unless immediately allayed and I therefore urge prompt and earnest attention to the subject.”
- fletches on 27 January 1862: “We must know something more decided as to these marauders before any of us move.”
- ‘Yankee ship… came so close I could see the Captain’ « North Carolina Miscellany on 18 October 1861: “we can see the Yankee ships all the time. the other day one came so close that I could see the Captain…”
- The American Civil War 150th Anniversary – January 15-21, 1862 « BJ Deming's Blog on 16 January 1862: “All is quiet.—We feel anxious about Roanoke Island.”
- The American Civil War 150th Anniversary – January 15-21, 1862 « BJ Deming's Blog on 15 January 1862: “Death of Colonel J. W. Allen, Surgeon Weller and the Second Mate of the Ann E. Thompson, January 15, 1862.”
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17 February 1862: “…the State of North Carolina will, and doth hereby assume the payment of the tax known as the war tax, levied by the government of the Confederate States upon the people of North Carolina…”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, called on state government to “assume the payment of the tax known as the war tax, [which was] levied by the government of the Confederate States upon the people of … Continue reading
