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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.…

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…

Louis Leon was a Confederate soldier who served in the Charlotte Grays, Company C, First North Carolina Regiment. He served from April 1861 to April 1865. In that time, he recorded much of that time spent as a soldier in his diary. He served as part…

The primary source that I have the strongest connection to would be the image I took while doing research in Windsor, of the Memorial to the Confederate Dead. It is a somewhat tall, imposing statue situated on the corner, right next to the…

Name Age Purchase Price ($) Temperance 18 270 Anne 20 310 Charles 17 410 Alphonse 17 335 Henry 32 310 Prouy & 2…

Name Age Sale Price ($) Anne 20 475 Charles 17 600 Celia & 3 Children 1100 Alphonse 17 550 Little Charles & 2 cisters (sic)…

Discussions between governor Zeb Vance, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis on the impact that desertion made on the Confederate effort during the Civil War. This article points out that popular support for the Confederacy was never "robust" in the…

This Ku Klux Klan mask belonged to Colonel John Campbell Van Hook Jr, of Person County, North Carolina.