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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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29 March 1863: Sketch….showing…..Siege of Washington, NC, March 29 to April 16, 1863
Item: “Sketch showing the position of the attacking and defending forces at the siege of Washington, N.C., March 29 to April 16, 1863″ From: U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged maps, Neuse River, New Bern, Pamlico Sound, Tar River, Washington (N.C)
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21 March 1863: “Her bondage, if such it can be called, sits lightly upon her; but she has no sympathy for rebels…”
Item description: Published letter, dated 21 March 1863, written by Corporal Zenas T. Haines, Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The letter is an excerpt from Haines’ account, Letters from the Forty-Fourth Regiment M.V.M.: A Record of the Experience of a Nine … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, African Americans, food, Henrietta, Massachusetts, New Bern, North Carolina, slaves, spring, Tar River, Tarboro, Union occupation, Zenas T. Haines
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19 March 1863: “It makes a man feel strong to know that he is all the world to somebody”
Item Description: Letter,19 March 1863, from Charles W. Hill, serving with the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in New Bern, N.C., to his wife Martha Hill in West Medway, Mass. Letter mentions military movements of his regiment and brigade, dislike of a superior officer’s … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 5th Massachusetts volunteer infantry, African Americans, Charles W. Hill, James Johnston Pettigrew, love letters, New Bern, servants, soldiers' pay, United States Army
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19 February 1863: “…you can, cooperating with General Foster’s land force, destroy the rebel ironclads building on the rivers…”
Item description: “Order of Acting Rear-Admiral Lee, U. S. Navy, to Commander Murray, U. S. Navy, to cooperate with land force for the destruction of Confederate ironclads under construction.” To read more from the Official Records of the Union and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Alexander Murray, Confederate Navy, ironclads, naval, naval operations, Neuse River, New Bern, Newport News, North Carolina, Plymouth (N.C.), Roanoke River, S.P. Lee, sounds, Tar River, U.S.S. Minnesota, United States Navy, Virginia
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27 December 1862: “It looks to me as if the persons named intended that they should be captured by the rebels.”
Item description: “Report of Commander Murray, U. S. Navy, regarding the reported capture of parties transporting goods from Norfolk [Virginia] to Elizabeth City [North Carolina].” To read more from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Alexander Murray, Charles Davis, contrabands, D. W. Curtis, Dismal Swamp Canal, Elizabeth City, Great Dismal Swamp, J. C. Jones, naval, naval operations, New Bern, newspapers, Norfolk, S.P. Lee, ships, sounds, transportation, U.S.S. Hetzel, United States Navy
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24 December 1862: “This is Christmas eve! Oh what a different mode of spending it this is from what I have been in the habbit of doing!”
Item description: Letter, 24 December 1862, from Union soldier Stephen Tippet Andrews to his beloved, Margaret (Maggie) Little. Stephen Tippet Andrews enlisted in the 85th New York Infantry Regiment on 26 August 1861. He helped organize Company F, and was mustered … Continue reading
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Tagged 85th New York Infantry Regiment, Christmas, holidays, Margaret Little Andrews, New Bern, New York, North Carolina, Stephen Tippet Andrews
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17 December 1862: “MAP of The Route Marched by the Foster Expedition Dec, 1862″
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, drew this map of the route the Foster expedition took through eastern North Carolina, moving from New Bern to Goldsboro in December 1862. It includes towns, railroads, roads, water features, and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), Battle of Goldsboro Bridge, General Foster, General John G. Foster, Goldsboro, hand-drawn maps, maps, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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11 December 1862: “My family…have been…but temporarily provided for; and, unless I can give them my personal attention, they will necessarily be subjected to suffering and great inconvenience.
Item Description: Letter, dated 11 December 1862, to Thomas L. Clingman from Captain Charles C. Clark, 31st North Carolina Infantry, requesting a leave of absence that is eventually denied. Thomas Clingman served terms in both the United State House and Senate … Continue reading
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Tagged 31st North Carolina Infantry, Camp Whiting, Confederate Army, Confederate camp, family, leaves of absence, New Bern, Thomas Lanier Clingman
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16 November 1862: “I was greatly disappointed in the appearance of the city, it is the most dilapidated looking place…”
Item description: Charles M. Alley was a private in the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during the Civil War. After the war, he participated in a number of business ventures in Boston, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. … Continue reading
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Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, New Bern, Union soldiers
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