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From Sterling Ruffin. [Brunswick, June, 1804] I have no apology to offer for not complying with the promise made in my last, of writing again, in a few days, except that I wish'd to have forwarded you a small B. Note, for fear, from some unforeseen…

This table provides the basic information for the disallowed claims for the Southern Claims Commission in Chatham County, North Carolina.

This table lists the basic information about the approved claims from the Southern Claims Commission in Chatham County, NC.

Front: C.S.A.
1861-1865
TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF CHATHAM COUNTY
OUR CONFEDERATE HEROES

Side: THIS MONUMENT IS THE GIFT OF THOSE WHO
RESERVE THE MEMORY OF THE CONFEDERATE
SOLDIER. ERECTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WINNIE
DAVIS CHAPTER…

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One of the places that I visited frequently while growing up, the Charles B. Aycock Birthplace in Fremont, North Carolina, is a North Carolina Historic Site. I visited this site for multiple years while in elementary and middle school. The site is…

At last the critical hour arrived, when, in the uncertain light of the dawn, they found that they had run near a blockader and had been see by her. The blockader opened fire on the Mary Celeste and pursued her. Like a seared greyhound she made…

SCHOFIELD'S ARMY--SHERMAN'S--THEIR OUTRAGES--UNION SENTIMENT--A DISAPPOINTMENT--NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO--GOVERNOR GRAHAM--HIS ANCESTRY--HIS CAREER--GOVERNOR MANLY.

The town of Goldsboro was occupied by General Schofield's army on the twenty-first of…

Henry Martin Tupper (1831-1893), an honorary discharge from the Union Army, was a very important figure in the education of blacks during the Reconstruction period of the Civil War because he funded Shaw University. When Henry Tupper arrived in…