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- Lance McDonald on 26 March 1863: “Ah what changes since then…”
- Lance McDonald on 20 March 1863: “…will you do me the favor to have the boy placed in jail before he is aware that the Dr. doesn’t get him, or I fear he will run off before I can get him.”
- Lance McDonald on 17 March 1863: “I have a frail good for nothing body, but I have more heart for the work than some of these big fellows…”
- 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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3 March 1863: “Reach Chapel Hill, N. C., sick and tired but find family well.”
Item description: Entry, dated 3 March 1863, from the diary of Alexander Davis Betts, D.D. This very brief diary entry mentions Betts’ return to his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. The diary was later published as, Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Alexander Davis Betts, Chapel Hill, chaplains, diaries, home, North Carolina, published diaries
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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?”
Item description: Letter, 18 January 1863, from Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C., to her sister, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga. Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Annie Maney, Atlanta, Bettie Kimberly, Chapel Hill, children, Georgia, home front, Kimberly family, North Carolina, women
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22 December 1862: “Mr. H. was absent from the final examination without permission. His general deportment has been good.”
Item description: Report card, dated 22 December 1862, for John Steele Henderson, a student at the University of North Carolina. More about John Steele Henderson: John Steele Henderson (1846-1916) was born in North Carolina, the son of Archibald and Mary Henderson. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Chapel Hill, Henderson family, John Steele Henderson, North Carolina, report cards, students, University of North Carolina
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7 November 1862: “we seem to be threatened with something like a famine here. If our farmers have any thing to sell, they will not part with it at present…”
Item description: Letter, 7 November 1862, from William Horn Battle to his son, Kemp Plummer Battle. Not long after learning about the death of his son Junius in a military hospital in Maryland, Judge Battle writes to his son Kemp … Continue reading
28 August 1862: “Very soon after I left last January nearly all the students left and went to war; some were called out by the draft some were taken by the Conscription law and some went voluntarily, So nearly all left…”
Item description: In this letter of 28 August 1862, Preston H. Sessoms writes from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., to his sister Bettie. Sessoms tells his sister that only 50 students are enrolled, and board is expensive. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapel Hill, conscription, draft, North Carolina, Preston H. Sessoms, railroad, students, University of North Carolina, Windsor
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15 July 1862: “…We have been compelled by the pressure of our enemies to give up more of our mother state to their brutal army.”
Item description: Letter, 15 July 1862, from Robert W. Parker of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry to his wife, Rebecca Louise Fitzhugh Walker Parker, at home in Bedford County, Va. Parker wrote of his company’s retreat from Culpeper to Rapidan Station, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged casualties, Chapel Hill, conscription, Culpeper, Gen. Richard Stoddert Ewell, Gen. Stonewall Jackson, railroads, Rapidan Station, Robert W. Parker
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5 June 1862: “Commencement Ball Announcement, Complimentary to The Graduating Class”
Item description: A commencement ball invitation from 5 June 1862. As the war progressed the student body at the University of North Carolina began to change drastically. By the fall of 1861, only 91 students remained at the University after many … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Chapel Hill, colleges, education, home front, homefront, North Carolina, student body, students, University of North Carolina
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31 May 1862: “That fifteen lashes be inflicted upon any colored man or woman, who, for the sake of convenience, and unaccompanied by any white person, may walk on forbidden ground…”
Item description: At the 31 May 1862 meeting of the Philanthropic Society, a committee recommended passage of the following law: “That fifteen lashes be inflicted upon any colored man or woman, who, for the sake of convenience, and unaccompanied by … Continue reading
Posted in University Archives
Tagged African Americans, campus, Chapel Hill, laws, legal matters, literary societies, North Carolina, Philanthropic Society, slavery, University of North Carolina
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5 October 1861: “The Philanthropic Society have heard with painful feelings of the death of one of its most distinguished ornaments.”
Item description: Minutes from a 5 October 1861 meeting of the Philanthropic Society of the University of North Carolina. Minutes note society business and debates, and contain committee reports and society resolutions. This particular set of minutes includes a resolution … Continue reading
Posted in University Archives
Tagged Chapel Hill, literary societies, North Carolina, Philanthropic Society, resolutions, students, tributes, University of North Carolina, Virginia, Yorktown
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27 September 1861: “There are here now only ninety students, last year there was about four hundred, there is about 300 gone to war…”
Item description: Letter, 27 September 1861, from P. H. Sessoms, Chapel Hill, N.C., to his sister, Penelope White, in Coleraine, Bertie County, N.C. Sessoms describes his trip from Coleraine, past a soldier’s camp in Weldon, N.C., where he observed 1,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Chapel Hill, prisoner-of-war, University of North Carolina, Weldon
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