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- Collection: Wartime North Carolina
"ESCAPING UNION OFFICERS SUCCORED BY SLAVES", March 12, 1864
The sketch on page 164 represents a party of the
Union officers who lately escaped from Libey prison,
under the guidance and protection of negroes living
in the environs of Richmond. They are conducted
by one of these poor slaves to his cabin…
Tags: Battle Description, Enlistment, Freedpeople, Prisons, slavery, Slaves, soldier
The Fighting in Florida, March 7, 1864
THE FIGHTING IN FLORIDA. The Savannah papers of Saturday furnish us with some additional and very interesting accounts of the progress and details of the fighting in Florida. The Republicanaccount says: THE RECENT SKIRMISH - THE ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. An…
Tags: Battle Description, Freedpeople, Soldiers
A Voice from Rebel Prisons, 1865
Tags: Battle Description, Prisons, Race relations, Soldiers
"Stoneman’s Raid in Official Records," 1897
29th, marched thirty miles, and encamped near Wilkesboro, NC., at 7 p. 30th, moved at 5 a. m, and joined First Brigade, which had taken a different route across the mountains from Boone; the First Brigade forded the Yadkin River, which was rising too…
"Standing Interrogatories," 1876
STANDING INTERROGATORIES. The following questions will be put to every person who gives testimony: What is your name, your age, your residence and how long has it been such, and your occupation? If you are not the claimant, in what manner, if…
Claim of John Cordel - Southern Claims Commission, December 13, 1878
Tags: Confiscation, Home Front, Troop Movement
Claim of John Tilley- Southern Claims Commission, December 13, 1878
Tags: Confiscation, Home Front, Troop Movement
To the Polls! To the Polls!! August 03, 1864
RALEIGH, N. C., JULY 13, 1864. JOHN D. HYMAN, EDITOR. FOR GOVERNOR : Z. B. VANCE OF BUNCOMBE The Conservative Ticket for Wake County ! FOR THE SENATE : Hon. SION H. ROGERS. FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS :WILLIAM LAWS, THOMAS J. UTLEY,DANIEL G.…
Edward Stanly to Zebulon Baird Vance, October 21, 1862
From Ed. StanlyNew Bern No. Ca. October 21, 1862 The strong affection which I have inherited & cherish for the people of my native State, has induced me to come here, by request of the President of the United States. Nations like individuals,…
"Enlistment of Negroes", August 21, 1862
Enlistment of Negroes It is remarkable how much fuss resolute zealots can make over a very small matter. Two or three of our smaller States, to judge from the noise made in them, are quite convulsed on the subject of enlisting blacks as soldiers to…
Tags: Enlistment, Slavery/Slaves
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North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge in presidential election, November 6, 1860

On November 6, 1860, in the presidential election, North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge (pictured), the southern Democratic nominee,…