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Account of Purchase and Sale of Slaves made by Benjamin Chambers, 1823
Cash on hand when I started to the North: $431.00
Cash received in New York for Cotton: $6529.82
$6960.82
Claracy 24 years old 2 sisters 18 and 12 and 2 children Cost…...925.00
Flora a woman of 22 years of age Cost…… 150.00
Siseney a woman…
"Professor Hedrick's Defence," North Carolina Standard, October 4, 1856
To make the matter short, I say I am in favor of the election of Fremont to the Presidency; and these are my reasons for my preference:
1st. Because I like the man. He was born and educated at the South. He has lived at the North and the West, and…
Letter of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Governor Thomas Bragg, October 6, 1856
Chapel Hill,Oct. 6, 1856
Dear Sir:
As the course I have taken in publishing the letter which appeared in the Standard of the 4th inst. may appear to some, extraordinary, I hope a simple statement of the reasons which have induced me to take…
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 14, 1856
Chapel Hill, Oct. 14, 1856
Dear Sir:
I am glad that the executive committee did not yield to a popular clamor and remove me from my situation here. For I believe that if I can have a full and fair hearing before the Trustees, the censure…
Letter of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Mary Ellen Hedrick, October 22, 1856
Davidson County, N.C.
Oct. 22, 1856
My dear Wife,
It is now just dark, and I am at Adam's. I came to Lexington today on the freight train, and walked out here. Adam is going with me directly to take the cars at Lexington. I will go to…
Letter from Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick to Charles Manly, October 28, 1856
Chapel HillOct. 28, 1856
Gov. Manly
Dear Sir,
Accompanying this I send you a letter which I wrote before visiting you in Raleigh. I believe I mentioned to you the fact that I had written it; certainly I mentioned it to some of the Board.…
David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
This book is a history of how Americans remembered their most divisive and tragic experience during the fifty-year period after the Civil War. It probes the interrelationship between the two broad themes of race and reunion in American culture and…
Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes, University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 11, 1856
RaleighOct 11, 1856
Executive Committee met.
Present
Present
His Excy. Gov. Bragg , Prest
J. H. Bryan
D. W. Courts
C. L. Hinton
Ch. Manly
B. F. Moore
R. M. Saunders
The Prest laid before the Committee a political essay…
Steven Boyer
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ROTC students view Civil War exhibit at NCSU, 1960
In this photograph, two Reserve Officers' Training Corps students view a Civil War exhibit at D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State College of…