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Raleigh, January 29th 1833
My dearest Anne,
By Sunday’s mail I received Catherine’s letter; which being without date, I suppose was written for three days late, insomuch as it said nothing about ___ ___ nor of your intentions about the…

On calling the Democratic State convention to order Chairman Simmons said: Gentlemen of the Convention: “This Convention is assembled by order of your Executive Committee for the purpose of nominating candidates for State offices and for the…

CREOLES LIKE THE AMENDMENT. It Works to Perfect Satisfaction of the Educated and Uneducated Whites in the Sugar District. By Josephus Daniels Thibieodeaux, May 10. – “Under the Constitutional amendment, by reason of section five, every…

PRITCHARD SPOUTS ON HIS RESOLUTION Declares the “Negro Has Never Been Offensive” MEEK AS A LITTLE LAMB THE VICIOUS DEMOCRATS HAVE PREYED UPON HIM DEMOCRATIC NOT WHITE MAN’S PARTY To a Crowded Senate For Two and a Half…

State Vs. Mann
It is to be lamented when such cases as the present are brought into judgment. It is impossible that the reasons on which they go can be appreciated, but when institutions similar to our own exist and are thoroughly understood.…

HAXALL's LANDING, ON JAMES RIVER, VA.,
July 22, 1862
The undersigned having been commissioned by the authorities they respectively represent to make arrangements for a general exchange of prisoners of war have agreed to the following…

Proclamation by the Confederate President

ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Richmond [Va.], December 24, 1862.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 111.

I. The following proclamation of the President is published for the information and guidance of all…

This picture is of supposedly the first game of baseball played in the south. It was played at Salisbury on a plot of land that was not walled off. It proves that the conditions before the failure of the exchange were favorable and not as bad as they…

This book is a compilation of accounts of the atrocities of Confederate Prisons. it gives a completely different view and presents extreme hostility towards the former Confederates. The language in this book is pretty graphic at times and seems to be…

My Dear husband I recieved your kind letter last satturday and I was glad to hear that you was well I cant write we are all well we all hav bad colds I hav had a pain in my head three weeks and the baby is sick and I dont think it will live long but…