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- Lance McDonald on 10 April 1863: “A great many spectators especially ladies _ for whom Genl Hardee has given the entertainment _ he has several at his house _ and this is the second or third time they have come up from Huntersville.”
- Lance McDonald on 10 April 1863: “A great many spectators especially ladies _ for whom Genl Hardee has given the entertainment _ he has several at his house _ and this is the second or third time they have come up from Huntersville.”
- Robert Terry on 29 March 1863: Sketch….showing…..Siege of Washington, NC, March 29 to April 16, 1863
- Michael Ward on 25 February 1863: “Troops have been pouring in in great numbers from North Carolina.”
- 28 January 1863: “Well, Judge, if they are our enemies we will have to admit they have fine music…” | Civil War Day by Day on 18 January 1863: “I made twelve garments last week and worked sixty-two button holes and sewed on as many buttons. Can you equal that?”
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31 January 1863: “in St. Clair County south of this they are resisting the conscript law & two loyal men have been killed by the conscripts…”
Item description: A letter, 31 January 1863, from John Tate and Sarah Ann Gordon Finley, Rocky Point, Alabama, to Dr. Robert Franklin and Carolina Gordon Hackett. Item citation: From the Gordon and Hackett Family Papers #1040, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Alabama, Battle of Murfreesboro, Battle of Vicksburg, Confederate conscription laws, conscription
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30 January 1863: “much of the County on the opposite side of the sound from us, is now guarded and held by armed negroes…”
Item description: Letter, dated 30 January 1863, from D.G. Cowand to William S. Pettigrew. Item citation: From the Pettigrew Family Papers #592, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Hd. Qrs. 32nd Reg. N.C.T. Near Goldsboro … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged African Americans, D.G. Cowand, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, William S. Pettigrew
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29 January 1863: “for a while we fared pretty badly being out in the rain without tents, but as we have got some tents now we are getting along a great deal better.”
Item description: Letter, 29 January 1863, from James A. Graham, officer in the “Orange Guard,” Company G, 27th Regiment N.C. Troops, to his father William A. Graham. Item citation: From the William A. Graham Papers #285, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 27th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Goldsboro, Graham family, James A. Graham, North Carolina, Orange Guard, rain, William A. Graham
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28 January 1863: “Well, Judge, if they are our enemies we will have to admit they have fine music…”
Item description: Letter, 28 January 1863, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga., to her sister, Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C. (replying to Bettie’s letter of 18 January). Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Annie Maney Schon, Bettie Kimberly, clothes, family, home front, Kimberly family, Nashville, Schon family, supplies
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27 January 1863: “…he heard that there was 100 negroes to hire out in Winston…”"
Item description: Letter, 27 January 1863 from Emanuel Fisher to a member of the Pettigrew family, presumably Charles Lockhart Pettigrew, reporting on the condition of the slaves hired out by the addressee through Mr. Fisher for work in the Winston, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Charles Lockhart Pettigru, childbirth, food, High Point, hiring out of slaves, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, slaves, Winston
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26 January 1863: “…for my part I want them all free and I should like that the war was over for I would like to be at home…”
Item description: This letter, dated 26 January 1863, was written by Andrew Sproul to his wife in Ohio. Sproul, a private in the Union Army, describes activities near the mouth of the Yazoo River in Mississippi. Of particular interest are … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged African American soldiers, African Americans, Andrew Sproul, Emancipation Proclamation, Mississippi, Ohio, Yazoo River
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25 January 1863: “A few days’ quiet generally relieves me, but exposure and irregular living generally bring it on again.”
Item description: Published letter, dated 25 January 1863, as collected and published in Memoir and Memorials (The Neale Publishing Co., 1907), a memoir of Elisha Franklin Paxton. Elisha Franklin Paxton was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1828. He studied at Washington College … Continue reading
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Tagged Elisha Franklin Paxton, illness, published accounts
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24 January 1863: “I have been very badly hurt, but am all right now. My horse ran away (she always does)…”
Item description: Letter, 24 January 1863, from Benjamin Lewis Blackford to his mother, Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (1802-1896). [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From folder 84 in the Blackford Family Papers #1912, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Lewis Blackford, Blackford Family, family, horses, injuries, nursing, Wilmington
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23 January 1863: “so my commission into the staff of General Stuart is at an end. It is with great regret that I leave him.”
Item description: Letter, 23 January 1863, from William W. Blackford, near Orange Court House, Va., to William M. Blackford, expressing his regrets at leaving Gen. Jeb Stuart’s staff. Item citation: From folder 84 in the Blackford Family Papers #1912, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Blackford Family, cavalry, Jeb Stuart, military commission, Virginia, William W. Blackford
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22 January 1863: “I really do not see how old bachelors can get on unless they live in haunted houses. An occasional ghost must be great company to them.”
Item description: Letter, 22 January 1863, from Charles Woodward Hutson to his mother. More about Charles Woodward Hutson: Charles Woodward Hutson (1840-1936) grew up on plantations in Beaufort District, S.C., attended South Carolina College, served throughout the Civil War in Virginia, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Woodward Hutson, ghosts, Pocotaligo, solitude, South Carolina
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