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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 October 1862: “FRIENDS, TO THE RESCUE!!”
Item description: This broadside, which includes appeals from Governor Zebulon B. Vance, Surgeon General Edward Warren, and Assistant Quartermaster James Sloan, announces the State of North Carolina’s dire need of donations from private citizens to help clothe and shoe its … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged broadsides, clothing, donations, economic conditions, Edward Warren, food, food shortage, Governor Zebulon Vance, James Sloan, North Carolina Troops, soldier conditions, speculation, supplies, troop assistance, troops
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27 September 1862: “…have got to go back again as there is a mistake in papers…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, noted in his diary entry for 26 September that he “started on board the Eagle for Newberne [North Carolina] with Discharge Papers,” but his entry for 27 September states that there … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), diaries, discharge, New Bern, Newport (N.C.), Newton Wallace, North Carolina, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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31 July 1862: “Well, the poor soldier has paid out his little wages (if indeed he has received it,) for clothing and shoes, or nearly so, and consequently has none of any consequence to pay these extortionary prices for vegetables.”
Item description: Letter to the editors of the Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal, written by a “Soldier from Wake,” as published in the 31 July 1862 issue of the Journal. Item citation: “Extortion – The Soldier,” The Daily Journal (Wilmington, N.C.), … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged economic conditions, letters to the editor, newspaper, pay, soldier conditions, soldiers' pay, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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27 July 1862: “Started this morning & marched about 4 miles then had to wait till 4 PM for a Bridge to be built…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, comments on his company’s movements while in eastern North Carolina, near New Bern. The march was a part of the Union Army’s expedition from New Bern to Trenton and Pollocksville. See … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), diaries, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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26 July 1862: “…started this morning & marched about 5 miles when the advance surprised a Picket Headquarters & drove them off..”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, comments on his company’s movements while in eastern North Carolina, near New Bern. The march was a part of the Union Army’s expedition from New Bern to Trenton and Pollocksville. See … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), diaries, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, Pollocksville, prisoners-of-war, skirmishes, soldier conditions, Trenton, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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25 July 1862: “…had orders to be ready to march this afternoon with 3 days rations…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, comments on his company’s movements while in eastern North Carolina, near New Bern. The march was a part of the Union Army’s expedition from New Bern to Trenton and Pollocksville. See … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), camp life, diaries, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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4 July 1862: “…Battalion line was Formed & Declaration of Independence Read…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, wrote this description of how he spent July 4th, 1862, in his diary. Wallace and his regiment were in occupied North Carolina, camped in tents “on the Old Fair Ground” in … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), Burnside, camp life, diaries, diary, holidays, July 4th, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, occupation, occupied territory, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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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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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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12 January 1862: “If there is an honorable road to get home, I shall spare no effort to find it as speedily as possible.”
Item description: Letter from Elisha Franklin Paxton to his wife, Elizabeth, dated 12 January 1862. Paxton is frustrated at being denied a furlough while other officers of equal rank have been receiving them. He informs his wife that he is … Continue reading
Posted in University Library
Tagged 27th Regiment, commissioned officers, Elisha Franklin Paxton, furlough, homefront, resignations, soldier conditions, Unger's Store, Virginia, Virginia Volunteers
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