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- Collection: Wartime North Carolina
"Wilmington. Fort Fisher Carried by Assault," The New York Times, January 18, 1865
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 17 -- 10:40 A.M. Maj.-Gen. J.A. Dix: The following official dispatches have just been received at this department: HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES ON FEDERAL POINT, N.C., Jan. 15, via FORTRESS MONROE, Jan.…
"Wilmington. The Attack on Fort Fisher," New York Times, December 30, 1864
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 29. The Secretary of the Navy received this afternoon the following by special messenger: NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON, U.S. FLAG SHIP MALVERN, AT SEA, OFF NEW INLET, Monday, Dec. 26, 1864. SIR: I was in hopes that I should…
A Voice from Rebel Prisons, 1865
Tags: Battle Description, Prisons, Race relations, Soldiers
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself, 1861
V.THE TRIALS OF GIRLHOOD.
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress. Though this seemed to me no more than right, I was grateful for it, and…
Tags: Antislavery/Abolition
Recollections of My Slavery Days, ca. 1863
I I have lived through the greatest epoch in history, having been born August 10, 1835, at Newbern, North Carolina. That was not so many years, you see, after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the winning of the Revolutionary War.…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
The North Carolina Whig, Proclamation on Northern Blacks, November 18, 1862
A negro proposes that President Davis should-retaliate upon Lincoln’s proclamation, by declaring all the Northern negroes slaves after the first of January next.
Tags: occupation, slave, spring2013
55th North Carolina Infantry Regimental Battle Flag
Battle Flag of the North Carolina 55th Infantry Regiment
A letter written from Catherine Ramsey to John Futch.
Dear sun,
I sete my self down to write you afew lines wich will inform you that we air all well. Hopin that these few line may rech and find you injoyen the same good blessings. Dear sun I have no news to rite to you of imporince more than I want…
A letter written from John Futch to his wife Martha
Dear wife,
I recvd a letter from you the 5 of this Inst stating you all was well which I was glad to hear. I can say to you that I am well at to sore feet and cold which I hope theas few lines may com safe to hand and find you all well and harty.…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion, Letter
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Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902
This voter registration card was created after the Democrat-controlled North Carolina General Assembly passed a Suffrage Amendment in 1900. The…