Posted in Recipes on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know the North Carolina Collection has a vast collection of cookbooks? Here are a few recipes from some early 1900s cookbooks that may help with your party planning. From The Twin-City Housewife From Capital City Recipes From Granite City Cook Book From The Henderson Cook Book Or for the more daring… From Capital [...]
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged civil war prisons, gov zeb vance, salisbury prison on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1865: Capt. G.W. Booth responds to Gov. Zeb Vance’s request for a report on conditions at the Confederate prison at Salisbury: “About the 5th of November, 1864, a large number of prisoners of war, some 8,000, were suddenly sent here, the Government having no other place to send them. The grounds [...]
