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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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12 February 1863: “I am here gathering up conscripts straglers and absentees and hope you will come up before I leave”
Item description: Letter, 12 February 1863, from Robert E. Brumby to his sister Sarah Simpson, while he was on leave in Goodman, Mississippi. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From the Simpson and Brumby Family Papers, #1408-z, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged absentees, Brumby family, Emancipation Proclamation, family, Goodman, home front, illness, Mississippi, peace, Robert E. Brumby, Sarah Brumby Simpson
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8 February 1863: “My chief hope & aim in coming here was to protect loyal men, and to encourage the people to return to their allegiance to the Union.”
Item description: Letter, 8 February 1863, to U. H. Wheeler of Washington, N.C., from Edward Stanly in New Bern, N.C. Stanly was a native of New Bern who had practiced law in Washington, N.C.; had been a Whig member of … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Constitutional rights, Edward Stanly, Emancipation Proclamation, military governors, North Carolina, occupied territory, private property, U.H. Wheeler, Washington (N.C)
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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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2 January 1863: “…the ladies were under a guard of Federal Soldiers haing spent the night in Jail and part of the time in a Criminals Cell!!
Item Description: Rev. Overton Bernard recounts the changing social conditions brought about by Union occupation and notions of emancipation. A white slave owner’s son, wife, and his wife’s friends were briefly imprisoned after an enslaved or servant woman was slapped for her … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Emancipation Proclamation, Norfolk, Rev. Overton Bernard, Union occupation, women
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1 January 1863: “Today is the period fixed for Mr. Lincoln’s unwise and unconstitutional emancipation proclamation…Thousands of the Poor deluded Negroes have left their homes…”
Item Description: Rev. Overton Bernard depicts the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the enslaved African Americans. Item citation: From folder 2 of the Overton and Jesse Bernard Diaries #62-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged African Americans, Emancipation Proclamation, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Rev. Overton Bernard, Virginia
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8 December 1862: “He calls his famous proclamation a contemplated emancipation scheme.”
Item: article from the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.), 8 December 1862 (Volume 20: number 29), page 2, column 3. Transcription: LINCOLN’S MESSAGE. Petersburg, Dec. 4.—The N. York Times, of the 2nd, has been received here. Lincoln’s message was read on … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Carolina Watchman, Emancipation Proclamation, newspapers
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