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Zebulon Vance, "Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters" (1863)
Vance’s Proclamation. The “Hideous Mark” to be fixed on Cowards and Traitors to the Confederacy. THE FRIENDS OF THE UNION TO BE MADE INFAMOUS Woe to the Men who Refuse to Fight for the South. THE FATHER OR THE BROTHER WHO HARBORS OR…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris , 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Theodore Upson, "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (March 24, 1865)
The people around here are very poor as a general thing but very kind and hospitable. There is none of the treachery we have found in other places. I was talking with an old man today; he has lost six sons in the Army. He says they did not want to go…
Tags: Carolinas Campaign, Civil War, Confederacy, Home Front, North Carolina, soldier, South, union
Civil War Service Record of Julian Williams, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, 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…