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- Collection: Wartime North Carolina
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, June 4, 1862
Camp Mangum, N.C.
June 4th, 1862
My Dear wife:
I seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines. I am well except a cold. I have had two or three sick brushes since I have been here; and I would have come home last week but I could not get a…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, May 23, 1862
Camp Mangum, N.C. May 23rd, 1862 My Dear Wife: I received your letter a few minutes ago, and you can not imagine what joy it gave me. Oh how it raised my heart to read a few lines from one whom I know loves me and the little hair braid inside,…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, May 30, 1862
Camp Mangum near Raleigh
May 30th, 1862
My Dear Wife:
I grasp my pen this morning to drop you a few lines. I am tolerably well, and I hope these lines may find you well. I received your kind letter through Mr. Brindle, and I read it with much…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, October 21, 1863
Rappahannock River, Va.
Wednesday, Oct 21st, 1863
My Dear wife. [Mrs. J.J. Hoyle, Knob Creek, N. C.]
I take the opportunity of dropping you a few more lines. Nothing of interest has occurred among us since I lat wrote you. We crossed the…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, October 8, 1862
Camp French, near Petersburg, Va, Oct 8th 1862 My Dear wife: I take the pleasure of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I am well at present. We landed at Petersburg last Saturday, but I was detailed to stay with the baggage and did…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, September 28, 1863
Near Rapidan Station Va.
Sept. 28th 1863.
My Dear wife:
This will inform you that I am about well again, and I hope it may find you well. The weather is cold up here now, and we have frost plenty, and…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Spirit of the Age, June 16, 1862
The following letter was printed in the June 16, 1862, Raleigh newspaperSpirit of the Age. Camp Mangum, June 11. Mr. Editor: This will inform the friends of the "South Mountain Rangers," that we are still at this place, and probably will remain…
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to the Spirit of Age September 22, 1862
The following letter was printed in the September 22, 1862, issue of the Spirit of Age National Repentance. All governments are swayed by the hand of Providence; for we are taught in Holy writ, that 'the powers that be are ordained of God.' The…
Letter of Martha Hendley Poteet to Francis Marion Poteet, June 16, 1864
June the 16 1864Dear husband I cant get no person to cut my wheat the men says that they dont know what will be don with the wheat for there aint men to cut it and if I dont get Mine cut me and the children will be bound to suffer I would like for…
Letter of Thomas Mann Thompson to his daughter Lily
As well as I can remember, I began running the blockade about the last day of February, 1864. left here on str. [steamer] Emma as passenger for Nassau. When we arrived there I was employed as a pilot on her - made three trips in and out making seven…
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ROTC students view Civil War exhibit at NCSU, 1960
In this photograph, two Reserve Officers' Training Corps students view a Civil War exhibit at D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State College of…