Browse Items (253 total)
- Collection: Wartime North Carolina
Letter from Murdoch to Zebulon Baird Vance, July 7, 1864
Ashville Sunday Night
July 7th 1864
Dear Zeb,
[stille] some of those ladies who I saw in Raleigh on their mission for cotton cards. I come before you now on a begging trip if is to ask you should they be any good gray cloth on and for officers…
Tags: desertion, Home Front, Protection, State Government
Letter from Nellie Worth to Cousin Pattie, March 21, 1865
There was no officer with the first men that came, and our drooping spirits were revived about one o’clock by the sight of a Yankie officer. He came in the house and introduced himself as Lt. Bracht, Mamma and I immediately appealed to him for…
Oliver Howard, Special Field Orders, No. 69 March 23, 1865
Special Field Orders, No. 69 Heaquarders Departmen and Army of the Tennessee Falling Creek, N.C., March 23, 1865. I. The command will move tomorrow to Goldsboro. The Fifteenth Army Corps, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan commanding, will move upon any…
Tags: Home Front, military strategy
The Florida Campaign, March 1, 1864
THE FLORIDA CAMPAIGN.
Details of the Operations of the Union Troops Under General
Seymour. The March to and Battle of Olustee .
Mr. Oscar G. SawyerDespatches.
CAMP FINEGAN, Florida, Feb. 23, 1864.
THE FLORIDA EXPEDITION.
Since…
Tags: Battle Description, Soldiers
Salisbury Baseball Match
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 (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
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
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…