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Ryan Eubanks
Letter from Sister to Sister, April 1865
Dear Sister,
I suppose I would write you a few lines. I thought you would be uneasy. Sister, the Yankees have been here. They say there was seven thousand, but I don’t know how many there was but it was the most men I ever saw and some say ten…
Tags: Family, Gender Relations, Home Front, slavery, Soldiers, Troop Movement
"Under Which Flag?," News and Observer, November 1, 1889
Tags: cartoons, postwar, Race relations
Edward W. Clay, "An Amalgamation Waltz", n.d
Tags: Race relations, Racism, spring2013
Ku Klux Klan Mask, c. 1870
Tags: postwar, Race relations, Racial Violence, Racism
Picture of Major John H Gee
Drawing of hanging (1970-80)
"They hung my son by the limb of a tree"
Drawing of a Civil War deserter being hanged from a tree.
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
North Carolina and the Civil War exhibit, 1999-2005
Tags: Commemoration
James' Plantation Freedmen's School, ca. October 1868
Tags: Education, Freedpeople
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948

Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…