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That message may indeed have served as a deterrent for at least some North Carolina soldiers. John W. Reese, a poor Buncombe County farmer who was not among those who abandoned the 60th Regiment, for example, told his wife, who was urging him to come…

If early enthusiasm for the Confederate cause had been remarkably widespread in the western counties of North Carolina, it proved to be thin indeed after a few months of real fighting. There were individual desertions early on, of course; some young…

I understand the people of Wilkes are baldy whipped and willing for our patriotic old State to return to the pretended Union, and claim Abraham Lincoln as their chief magistrate. I have also been told that the country was full of deserters and no…

My dear Walter, they have a terrible state of things upon the Tennessee line particularly in Watauga County. There is a band of robbers and villains who are constantly plundering the people in the night, when resolute and prepared they succeed in…

CHAPTER CLXXI. AN ACT TO DIVIDE NORTH CAROLINA INTO EIGHT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS Section 1. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact, That for the purpose of selecting representatives in the congress of the United States, the state of North…

Chairman F.M. Simmons
Issues a Patriotic and Able Address, Summing
Up the Issues, and Appealing Elo-
Quently to the White Voters
To Redeem the State

TO THE VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA:

The most memorable campaign ever waged in North Carolina…