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- Collection: Wartime North Carolina
Proclamation of 23 December 1862
Proclamation by the Confederate President
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Richmond [Va.], December 24, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 111.
I. The following proclamation of the President is published for the information and guidance of all…
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Jan. 21, 1864)
My Dear husband I recieved your kind letter last satturday and I was glad to hear that you was well I cant write we are all well we all hav bad colds I hav had a pain in my head three weeks and the baby is sick and I dont think it will live long but…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (June 16, 1864)
My Dear husband I seat My self this evening to write you a few lines to let you know how we are Some of us is not well me and Thomas Francis Emer Susannah Amy Jane has the bowell complaint I aint Much sick but I do hope these few lines May Reach your…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Jan. 7, 1864)
My Dear husband I now seat my self to write you a few lines to let you know we are not well the children is sick with bad colds and I haint seen a well day since you left I have had a very bad head ache ever sens last Sunday but I do hope and pray…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Job R. Redmond, Letter to Malinda Redmond (Nov. 2, 1864)
My Dier wife and children I seete my self this morning with A Troub beled harte and a de strest Mind to try to rite a few lines to Let you no that I hierd my sentens Red yesterday and hit was very Bad I am very sory to let you no for I that you A…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Francis Marion Poteet, Letter to Martha Hendley Poteet (Jan. 12, 1864)
My Dear Wife and Children I take the pleasure to drop you a few lines to let you now that I am well at this time hoping these lines may Reach your kind hands and find you injoying the same blessing I want you to Rite to me as soon as this comes to…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Nov. 24, 1864)
Dear husband Nov 24th 1864 I Seat My self this eavning to write you a few lines to let you know that we are still in the land of the living I aint very well the children is well excepting bad colds but I do hope these few lines will Reach your kind…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Aug. 19, 1864)
Dear husband I seat my self this evening to write you afew lines to let you know that we are all well at this time ever hoping this will Reach your kind hands and find you in good health I thought you would have sent me a letter by Louis Walker but…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Letter from Mary A. Windsor to Zebulon Baird Vance, February 1, 1865
Reidsville NC Feb. the 1st 1865
Gov Vance Honored Sir,
Permit me the pleasure of communicating to you a few of my thoughts by way of letter and of asking a great favor of you that is concerning my dear and beloved husband who has been gone from…
Tags: Family, Home Front, Protection, State Government, Womanhood, Women
Diary of Elizabeth Collier, April 20, 1865
April 20, 1865
We have lived in such a state of excitement for the past month that I have not had the time to write any thing which occurred but to begin at this late day—After the evacuation of Goldsboro—we were in constant expectation of the…
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…