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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction," May 29, 1865
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…
Tags: National Government
Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States and of the State of North Carolina: I am 53 years of age: I was on the first day of January, A. D. 1867, or prior to that date, entitled to vote under the Constitution and laws…
Tags: State Government
"Life in North Carolina: The Murder of Senator John W. Stephens -- A Terrible Scene -- Shall His Assassins Be Amnestied?," New York Times, February 26, 1873
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 25 — …Mr. Bowman, Republican… related from the sworn evidence of one of the parties present the particulars of the murder of Senator John W. Stephens, of Caswell, which occurred in June, 1870; and that warrants had been…
Tags: National Government
Memoirs of W. W. Holden (1911)
Executive Department, Raleigh,
December 16, 1869.
To the Honorable, the General Assembly of North Carolina.
Gentlemen: — Allow me respectfully and earnestly to call your attention to the necessity which exists for such amendments to the…
John G. Lea's confession to the Ku Klux Klan murder of John W. Stephens, July 2, 1919
At the request of the North Carolina Historical Commission, I have written the true story of the events of the Reconstruction Period in this State, which centered mainly at Yanceyville in Caswell County, where the killing of the notorious, John W.…
"The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan," 1880
We had only proceeded a short distance further on our way, when we were confronted by the charred remains of what had been a dwelling house.
“What’s that?†I asked for the hundredth time, addressing Jones.
“That†said he, “is the…
"Address to the Colored People of North Carolina," December 19, 1870
To the colored people throughout the State:
…The poor people, especially the colored people are the great body of victims appointed for the slaughter, and we as Representatives, ocupying [sic] the place of power, as did Esther, feel it to be our…
“Are the Robeson County, N.C., outlaws KuKlux?,” New York Times, May 16, 1871
The statement made in some of the Northern papers, based on a telegram of the Associated Press, sent from this point May 10, that the Robeson County outlaws are Kuklux is erroneous. LOWRY, APPLEWHITE and STRONG, the recognized leaders of the badn,…
Letter of Judge Tourgee to Senator Abbott, May 24, 1870
Letter of Members of All Companies, Third North Carolina Infantry, U.S.V. to Secretary of War, October 5, 1898
Secretary of War,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
We the undersigned many soldiers, heard that you had been instructed that we wanted to stay in service, as garrison duty, but, my dear sir, we are now pleading with mercy and deny any such…
Tags: patriotism, Race relations, soldier
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…