Browse Items (216 total)
- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
Letter from W. W. Holden to S. A. Ashe, November 29, 1881
Raleigh, November 29, 1881.
Capt. S. A. Ashe: - On page 232 of his history Maj. Moore says:
"The persistency of President Davis, at Richmond, in refusing to make overtures to Mr. Lincoln, in order to break the force of the coming overthrow, led…
Tags: Class Relations, Freedpeople
William Woods Holden Memoir
After nine years of rebellion, and strife, and civil discord, and social disruption and bitterness, a very large majority of the people of North Carolina long for peace, and harmony, and good will, and security of life and property. But this matter…
Tags: W.W. Holden
Certificate of appointment: James H. Harris to City Commissioner for Raleigh, N.C., July 13, 1868
Amnesty Petition of William P. Roberts, August 26, 1865
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Amnesty Petition of William McRae, July 28, 1865
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Amnesty Petition of William A. Lash, July 22, 1865
State of North Carolina,
To his Excellency, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States:
William A. Lash, of Stokes County by this petition respectfully showeth, unto your Excellency, that he is now sixty seven years of age and has a large…
Amnesty Petition of J.J. Ward, August 3, 1865
To the president of the United States,
The undersigned, a resident of the town of Franklinton, in the county of Franklin, state of North Carolina, a teacher by profession, aged 58 years, respectfully requests to His Excellency, Andrew Johnson,…
"The Reconstruction Prospect," November 12, 1867
We have favored the holding of a Convention asauthorized by Congress, and of doing all that couldfairly and honorably be done to effect reconstructionand restore the State to civil government, but we canplainly see that almost a death-blow has been…
Amnesty Petition of W.G. Lewis, June 20, 1865
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…