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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 April 1863: “The house servant that you wanted to buy, when down, I have not seen one that is for sale that I thought would suit.”
Item description: Note, 3 April 1863, to Ann McNeely of Salisbury, N.C., from W.T. Gilmore about the sale of cotton and the purchase of a house servant. Item citation: From folder 6 of the Macay and McNeely Family Papers #447, Southern … Continue reading
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Tagged cotton, house slaves, McNeely family, North Carolina, prices, Salisbury, scarcity, servants, slaves, W.T. Gilmore
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1 February 1863: “I have had the itch – and feared to write lest it should be imparted to you from the paper…”
Item description: Letter, 1 February 1863, from Leonard Henderson to his mother Mary Henderson. The letter describes Henderson’s affliction with what many historians colloquially call “camp itch,” a mysterious skin disease that plagued countless soldiers during the war. Many now … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, camp itch, camp life, Camp Whiting, Civil War medicine, disease, Henderson family, Len Henderson, Leonard Henderson, North Carolina, Salisbury
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