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"I have a curiosity to read them. I have heard so much about them, and never saw them before. You may not be aware, madam, that they were regarded as 'seditious publications' before the war; so that one could only get to read them at considerable…

In this letter, Albion Tourgee, a civil rights activist and representative to the Constitutional Convention, wrote to Joseph Abbott (pictured), a Republican senator, about the high Klu Klux Klan activity within Alamance and Caswell counties in the…

Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of December, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and on the 26 day of March, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, did, with the object to suppress the existing rebellion, to induce all…

"This claimant is on petition of citizens of Chatham Co. asking the Sec. of War to station Co. D. 61st N.C.I. in said county for the reason that the members are acquainted with the disaffected regions and 'while this Co. was with us the True and…

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"W. S. Bradshaw
Alamance County, NC
Pet. for Pardon
Officer & Post. Master
Received By:
W. R. Albright
W. A. Albright"
Executive Office W6
Raleigh, June 30, 1865.
I respectfully recommend that a pardon be granted in this case.…

"In and by the Proclamation of our Excellency of the 29th of May last certain classes of persons are specially excluded from the amnesty therein granted. Two of these exceptions may be supposed to apply to you petitioner. The fourth 'All who left…

A selection of accepted claims data from the Chowan River Basin

We responded to our country's call.

We fought an honest fight.
We kept the Southron's faith.
We fell at the post of duty.
We died for the land we loved.

Erected by the Confederate Veterans Association of Bertie 1896

Our Confederate Dead…