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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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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…”
Item description: Letter, 17 March 1863, from D.H. Hill to James Longstreet, Goldsboro, N.C., requesting Ransom’s brigade or another be ordered to Goldsboro to help fortify Kinston, N.C., while other brigades moved on Greenville, N.C. Item citation: From the D. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged D.H. Hill, General James Longstreet, Goldsboro, Kinston, North Carolina, Washington (N.C)
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8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40″
Item description: Letter, 8 March 1863, to Edwin Keiger in Kinston, N.C., from Joseph Boles in Raleigh, N.C.The letter describes the inflated prices for food, horses, and other goods during the Civil War. Included is discussion of why Boles was not … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Edwin Keiger, food, horses, Joseph Boles, Kinston, North Carolina, prices
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14 December 1862: Program for a reunion of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, held on 14 December 1887 in Boston, Mass.
Item description: Program for a reunion of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, held on 14 December 1887 in Boston, Mass., on the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Kinston (N.C.) (fought on 14 December 1862). Item citation: “Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Kinston, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 1887, 45th Massachusetts Regiment, Battle of Kinston, Kinston, Massachusetts, North Carolina, reunions, veterans
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17 November 1862: “No Sentimental Journey”
Item Description: “No Sentimental Journey,” The New York Herald, 17 November 1862, page 1, column 3. Item Note: The writer refers to Kinston, N.C. as “Kingston.” Transcription: INTERESTING FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Adventures of One of Our Correspondents. NO SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged alcohol, clothing, contrabands, corn, cotton, foreign intervention, Goldsboro, Governor Zebulon Vance, Kinston, North Carolina, pork, salt, slaves, snuff, southern women, The New York Herald, tobacco, uniforms
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30 March 1862: “My unwavering confidence has only been in the final result, not in the intermediate steps which will lead to it. We may have yet enough of the same sort to endure to bring us to the verge of the precipice…”
Item description: Letter from Walter Waightstill Lenoir, written to one of his brothers. Item citation: In the Lenoir Family Papers #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Five miles East of Kinston, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp life, Confederate Army, Confederate camp, Kinston, North Carolina, supplies
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