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- Lance McDonald on 10 April 1863: “A great many spectators especially ladies _ for whom Genl Hardee has given the entertainment _ he has several at his house _ and this is the second or third time they have come up from Huntersville.”
- Lance McDonald on 10 April 1863: “A great many spectators especially ladies _ for whom Genl Hardee has given the entertainment _ he has several at his house _ and this is the second or third time they have come up from Huntersville.”
- Robert Terry on 29 March 1863: Sketch….showing…..Siege of Washington, NC, March 29 to April 16, 1863
- 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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25 February 1863: “Troops have been pouring in in great numbers from North Carolina.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 25 February 1863, presumably to Jane North Pettigrew, from Henry Lesesne. Item Citation: From folder 261 in the Pettigrew Family Papers #592, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item Transcription: … Continue reading
15 February 1863: “If you were hear with your boyes you would have no trouble to get shut of them”
Item Description: A letter, 15 February 1863, from Charles Atwood to William Pettigrew at Haywood, N.C. Atwood sought information about the pending arrival of Dick, a slave he apparently agreed to hire out from Pettigrew. His letter also suggests that … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Atwood, hiring out of slaves, William Pettigrew, Winston (N.C.)
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12 January 1863: “…the pony is very nearly starved into death.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 12 January 1863 from Charles Lockhart Pettigrew to his wife, Jane Caroline North Pettigrew. The letter describes his visit to the area near Winston, NC where his slaves have been hired out to work on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne B.S. Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart Pettigru, disease, Goldsboro, greensboro, hiring out of slaves, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Lincoln, measles, Mocksville, North Carolina, oath of allegiance, railroad, Scuppernong, slaves, smallpox, South Carolina, William Pettigrew, Winston
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14 October 1862: “I was also informed that his negroes were very much averse to leaving, and that 30 of them had run away, in consequence of their having been informed by the disloyal men around them”
Item description: Two letters, dated 14 October 1862, from William Pettigrew. One letter is to his brother Charles Pettigrew and the other letter is to an unknown recipient, possibly a Mr. Bryan. After the fall of Roanoke Island in 1862, William and … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Pettigrew, Chatham County, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, runaways, slavery, slaves, William Pettigrew
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19 June 1862: “your acquaintance with the hire of servants in the camp renders you much more competent than myself to decide as to what would be just both to yourself & to his owner.”
Item description: Letter, 19 June 1862, from William S. Pettigrew to Lieutenant Louis Gourdin Young, aid-de-camp to William’s brother, General James Johnston Pettigrew, concerning the fate of the General’s body servant Peter. Peter had been sent in October 1861 to … Continue reading
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Tagged body servants, Chatham County, James Johnston Pettigrew, Louis Gourdin Young, North Carolina, Peter, Pettigrew family, Scuppernong, slavery, slaves, William Pettigrew
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7 June 1862: “That Genl. Pettigrew was a prisoner; and although severly wounded yet his wounds are not dangerous & he is doing well.”
Item description: Letter, 7 June 1862, from William S. Pettigrew to his brother Charles L. Pettigrew. William gives an update on the fate of his brother, General James Johnston Pettigrew, who was thought to have been slain at the Battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Seven Pines, body servants, Charles Pettigrew, North Carolina, Peter, Pettigrew family, slavery, slaves, Virginia, William Pettigrew
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2 June 1862: “Peter shall be as well cared for as if the General were alive. His grief at the loss of the General is most touching & draws out the sympathies of all of us.”
Item description: Letter, dated 2 June 1862, from Louis Gourdin Young, aide-de-camp to Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew (CSA). The letter appears to be addressed to the General’s brother, William S. Pettigrew. In his message, Young delivers a report on … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Seven Pines, body servants, casualties, James Johnston Pettigrew, Louis Gourdin Young, Peninsula Campaign, Peter, Pettigrew family, slavery, slaves, Virginia, William Pettigrew
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18 January 1862: “thare is some boys knows how to handle a gun yet on that soil…”
Item description: Letter, 18 January 1862, from Malachi J. White to William S. Pettigrew. Throughout 1861 and 1862, William S. Pettigrew was in Raleigh, serving as Washington County’s representative to the North Carolina Secession Convention. During his absence from his … Continue reading
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Tagged Burnside Expedition, Malachi J. White, North Carolina, overseers, Pettigrew family, Roanoke Island, Scuppernong, slaves, Washington County, William Pettigrew
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9 January 1862: “…should your defences at Roanoke Island prove as ineffectual as ours at Port Royal, it will be dreadful indeed…”
Image description: Letter, 9 January 1862., from Jane Gilbert North to William Pettigrew, her cousin. [Transcription available below images] Item citation: From folder 250 of the Pettigrew Family Papers, #592, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charleston, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, Roanoke Island, William Pettigrew, William Seward
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19 November 1861: “the result of these elections shows an improved condition among our people for we are to remember that half of the voting population of our country is absent in their country’s defence…”
Item description: Letter, 19 November 1861, from Hardy Hardison, Scuppernong, N.C., to William S. Pettigrew, Raleigh, N.C. In the letter, Hardison, a local physician, alludes to the controversy surrounding the election of militia officers in Washington County in late 1861. … Continue reading
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Tagged commissions, election of officers, Hardy Hardison, local militia, militia elections, militias, North Carolina, Scuppernong, Union-sympathizers, Unionism, Washington County, William Pettigrew
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