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- Collection: Scholarship
James McPherson, What They Fought For (1994)
This conviction that they fought for their homes and women gave many Confederate soldiers remarkable staying power in the face of adversity. "My dear be a brave woman to the last," wrote a Shenandoah Valley farmer serving in the 10th Cavalry to his…
Tags: Enlistment, Mobilization, patriotism, Soldiers
Jean Fagan Yellin, Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2004)
She did not know. Papa's pride, Mama's darling, Grandmother's joy -she did not know she was a slave. Not until she was six, and Mama died. And really not even then. But later, when she was willed to Little Miss, she had to find out. Hatty was a…
Tags: Memory, Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008)
She was a slave in the South and a fugitive in the South and in the North. She was an abolitionist, the author of a published slave narrative. She was a relief worker during the Civil War, and after Reconstruction, she was an entrepreneur. Although…
Tags: Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
Jeffrey Brooke Allen, "The Racial Thought of White North Carolina Opponents of Slavery, 1789-1876" (1982)
Jennifer L. Weber, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (2006)
John Barrett, Sherman's March through the Carolinas (1956)
Sherman's movements through South and North Carolina were bold, imaginative strokes, masterfully executed. One historian has rightly characterized the Carolinas campaign as "a triumph of physical endurance and mechanical skill on the part of the army…
John Spencer Bassett, Antislavery Leaders of North Carolina (1898)
All the conditions of small farms, simple habits and democratic ideals which have been ascribed to this general region were emphatically attributable to that part of it which lay in North Carolina. The western part of this State, until the…
Joseph Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond (1985)
Ever since Sherman and his army embarked upon their march to the coast of Georgia and, later, through the Carolinas, the two campaigns earned the dubious distinction as the most controversial of the Civil War and possibly in American military…
Jospeh C. Sitterson, The Secession Movement in N.C. (1939)
On May 1, the legislature met ins special secession. Governor Eillis, in his message, Reviewed the theory on which the government of the United States was founded and discussed fully the Constitutional aspects of coercion. Assuming that the state…
Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties (2011)
Union forces marched into New Bern on March 14, 1862, and Beaufort on the twenty-fifth, marking the beginning of a military occupation that would last the rest of the war. With Union occupation came thousands of Federal soldiers, government…
Tags: patriotism
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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…