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The Declaration of Independence of North Carolina, May 11, 1861
Tags: Prewar North Carolina
Amnesty Petition of John N. Maffitt, June 1, 1867
Tags: Amnesty, Military Authority, Officers, Veterans
Letter of John Garibaldi to His Wife, September 3, 1863
Camp Stonewall Brigade September 3, 1863 Dear Wife I received your letter of the 8 of August last from which I understood with great pleasure that you and the rest of the family were all well, but sorrow to hear that you had been sick. This…
Tags: Civil War, Confederacy
John G. Lea's confession to the Ku Klux Klan murder of John W. Stephens, July 2, 1919
At the request of the North Carolina Historical Commission, I have written the true story of the events of the Reconstruction Period in this State, which centered mainly at Yanceyville in Caswell County, where the killing of the notorious, John W.…
A letter written from John Futch to his wife Martha
Dear wife,
I recvd a letter from you the 5 of this Inst stating you all was well which I was glad to hear. I can say to you that I am well at to sore feet and cold which I hope theas few lines may com safe to hand and find you all well and harty.…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion, Letter
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
Dix-Hill Cartel
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…
Conscription
Major Peter Mallett
Major Peter Mallett was placed in charge of organizing, training, and deploying the men conscripted in North Carolina soon after Jefferson Davis signed the conscription act in April 1862. He was born in 1825 to a prominent family in Fayetteville,…
The New Military Bill
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…