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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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20 September 1862: “the legislature, if convened, would be cramped & hampered by the forms of the Constitution…”
Item transcription: Letter, 20 September 1862, from Weldon Nathaniel Edwards, Ridgeway, N.C., to William Alexander Graham, Hillsboro, N.C. The letter concerns the prospect of convening, in late 1862, a legislative convention in North Carolina. Edwards served as the president of the … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged North Carolina, North Carolina Convention, Secession Convention, Weldon N. Edwards, William A. Graham, Zebulon Vance
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7 May 1862: “Whereas, At the time prescribed by law for listing taxable property in this State, many of its citizens were in the military service of their State and of the Confederate States…”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, instructs sheriffs to “collect only the single tax” (rather than a “double tax”) from soldiers who had failed to list their taxes in a timely manner due to military service. … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged finances, home front, homefront, military service, North Carolina, Secession Convention, soldier conditions, taxes
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21 April 1862: “…whatever of blame and responsibility is justly attributable to any one for the defeat of our troops at Roanoke Island, on the 8th of February, 1862, should attach to Major General B. Huger and the late Secretary of War, J. P. Benjamin.”
Item description: This report, which was created at the behest of the Confederate Congress, examines “The Roanoke Island Defeat.” It attributes responsibility for the defeat to Major General Benjamin Huger and Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin. North Carolina’s Confederate … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Confederate Congress, Gen. Benjamin Huger, Judah P. Benjamin, North Carolina, Roanoke Island, Secession Convention
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19 February 1862: “…it shall be the duty of the Governor, from time to time, to issue his proclamation calling for volunteers to meet the requisitions of the Confederate Government…”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, gives explicit instructions on recruiting and organizing North Carolina’s quota of soldiers. It also discusses bounty pay due to new and returning soldiers. [Continue reading ordinances passed by this Convention] … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged bounty pay, Confederate Army, enlistment, finances, North Carolina, ordinances, recruitment, Secession Convention, volunteer troops
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17 February 1862: “…the State of North Carolina will, and doth hereby assume the payment of the tax known as the war tax, levied by the government of the Confederate States upon the people of North Carolina…”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, called on state government to “assume the payment of the tax known as the war tax, [which was] levied by the government of the Confederate States upon the people of … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Confederate States of America, currency, finances, North Carolina, ordinances, Secession Convention, taxes
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15 February 1862: “WHEREAS, Robert K. Smith hath proposed to finish up the entire work of the Cape Fear and Deep River Improvement…”
Item description: In this report, a North Carolina Secession Convention committee recommends an ordinance calling for navigational improvements on the Cape Fear and Deep Rivers. The work would be overseen by Robert K. Smith, and, if completed, would provide better … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Cape Fear River, coal, Coalfields, Deep River, internal improvements, North Carolina, ordinances, Robert K. Smith, Secession Convention
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10 February 1862: “An Ordinance Granting Bounty To Certain North-Carolina Volunteers”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, called on state government to pay those volunteer soldiers to whom bounty pay was due–regardless of how they entered military service. [Continue reading ordinances passed by this Convention] Item citation: … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged bounty pay, North Carolina, ordinances, pay, Secession Convention, soldier conditions, troops, volunteer troops
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4 February 1862: “So far as the Executive could, he has applied for payment to the Confederate States…”
Item description: Correspondence from Governor Henry Toole Clark to Weldon N. Edwards, President of North Carolina’s Secession Convention, concerning the state’s claims against the Confederate government. Item citation: “Claims of North Carolina Against the Confederate Government.” Documents of the Convention … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Confederate States of America, finances, Henry T. Clark, North Carolina, Secession Convention, Weldon N. Edwards
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30 January 1862: “WHEREAS, It is of great importance to manufacture Salt in the interior of this State…”
Item description: Salt continued to be of great importance to the North Carolina Secession Convention as evidenced by this ordinance. In it, the convention exempts the owners and operators of “The Chatham Salt Mining and Manufacturing Company” from militia service, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Chatham Salt Mining and Manufacturing Company, convention, military service, militias, North Carolina, North Carolina Convention, ordinances, salt, Secession Convention
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20 January 1862: “It is desirable that Constitutions, based on sound republican principles, should be as seldom subjected as possible to general revisions and changes…”
Item description: Signed by William Woods Holden and Ervin A. Thompson, this report explains their dissenting views concerning new modes of amending North Carolina’s constitution, which were proposed by the state’s Secession Convention. They argue against extraneous calls for and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged amendments, Constitution, Ervin A. Thompson, North Carolina, North Carolina Convention, Secession Convention, W.W. Holden, William W. Holden
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