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- Todd Kesselring on 27 April 1862: “Fear of conscription threatens great injury here unless immediately allayed and I therefore urge prompt and earnest attention to the subject.”
- fletches on 27 January 1862: “We must know something more decided as to these marauders before any of us move.”
- ‘Yankee ship… came so close I could see the Captain’ « North Carolina Miscellany on 18 October 1861: “we can see the Yankee ships all the time. the other day one came so close that I could see the Captain…”
- The American Civil War 150th Anniversary – January 15-21, 1862 « BJ Deming's Blog on 16 January 1862: “All is quiet.—We feel anxious about Roanoke Island.”
- The American Civil War 150th Anniversary – January 15-21, 1862 « BJ Deming's Blog on 15 January 1862: “Death of Colonel J. W. Allen, Surgeon Weller and the Second Mate of the Ann E. Thompson, January 15, 1862.”
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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
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
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
26 December 1861: “I was promising myself much happiness in spending a few days with you at New Year’s, and am much grieved that it has to be deferred…”
Item description: Letter from Elisha Franklin Paxton to his wife, Elizabeth, dated 26 December 1861. In the letter Paxton informs his wife that his hoped-for furlough would not come through in time for him to visit around New Year’s Day, … Continue reading
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15 December 1861: “Sunday In Hospital came down with measles”
Item description: Entry, dated 15 December 1861, from diary of Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers. Wallace was born in Holland, Massachusetts, and was twenty years old at the time of his enlistment. [Editorial Note: Wallace and his regiment … Continue reading
6 November 1861: “…Our camp is named Camp Burnside in honor of our Commanding General.”
Item description: Entry, dated 6 November 1861, from diary of Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers. Wallace was born in Holland, Massachusetts, and was twenty years old at the time of his enlistment. [Editorial Note: Wallace and his regiment … Continue reading
5 November 1861: “Got up and got Breakfast about 6, AM lay round Resting till 11 then marched out of the city to our destined camp…”
Item description: Entry, dated 5 November 1861, from diary of Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers. Wallace was born in Holland, Massachusetts, and was twenty years old at the time of his enlistment. [Editorial Note: Wallace and his regiment … Continue reading
28 September 1861: “The weather begins to feel like frost, and hereafter we shall, I fear, find a soldier’s life rather uncomfortable.”
Item description: Letter from Elisha Franklin Paxton to his wife, Elizabeth, dated 28 September 1861. In the letter Paxton discusses a promotion in rank that he declined, the changing weather, items such as pants and coats sent from home, and … Continue reading
25 September 1861: “Many of us have been in service as long as four months, and neither officers or men of this regiment have received one cent of pay.”
Item description: Letter to Dennis Heartt, editor of the Hillsborough Recorder, from a soldier in the Sixth Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. In the letter, which was written on 10 September 1861 from Camp Jones, near Bristoe Station, Virginia, … Continue reading
29 May 1861: “we arrived in camp yesterday near 4ocl all our company are on foot.”
Item description: In this letter, Robert W. Parker tells his wife that he was just appointed officer of the guard. He remarks on the status of troops present, portraying the typical conditions for cavalry soldiers. Item citation: From the Robert … Continue reading
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