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The Scare on the Road, The Swamp Outlaw by Alfred Townshed, 1872
THE SCARE ON THE ROAD.
An instance of the deep sense of apprehension created by these bandits in all southeastern Carolina is afforded by a dream which Colonel W. H. Barnard, editor of the Wilmington Star, related to me. The Colonel's paper is…
Alfred Townsend, Lowery as A Brigand Leader, The Swamp Outlaws, 1872
"What is the meaning of this?" said I to "Parson" Sinclair—the fighting parson of Lumberton—"How can this fellow, with a handful of boys and illiterate men, put to flight a society only recently used to warfare and full of accomplished
soldiers…
"Address to the Colored People of North Carolina," December 19, 1870
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, RALEIGH, Dec. 19th, 1870.
To the colored people throughout the State:
The undersigned Representatives send greeting:
Know ye that since the time that Haman conspired to destroy all the Jews who dwelt in the Persian…
Tags: Democrat, Governor, North Carolina, Post War, State Politics, Suffrage, W.W. Holden
Eugene Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation (1988)
General Ambrose E. Burnside to the Secretary of War, March 21, 1862
Newbern {N.C.} Mch 21 /62 I have the honor of reporting the following movements in my department since my hurrid report of the 16” inst- The detailed report of the Engagement on the 14” is not yet finished, but I hope will be ready to…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Letter from Gen. William T. Sherman to Major-General H. W. Halleck, December 24, 1864
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Savannah, GA., December 24, 1864.
Major General H. W. HALLECK,
Chief of Staff, Washington City, D. C.:
...then, communicating with the fleet in the neighborhood of…
Tags: military strategy, North Carolina, union
Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1823-1875
Catherine Ann Devereux was one of six children born in 1823 to Thomas Pollock Devereux and Catherine Ann Bayard Johnson. She was raised in a wealthy plantation owning family where she received a private education from her father. Once married to…
Gary Gallagher, The Union War (2011)
It has become a commonplace that the war changed how Americans thought of their country. During the antebellum years, most people said “the United States are . . .” After the war, however, they said “The United States is . .…
Tags: Nationalism, patriotism
Diary of G.S. Bradley, November 19, 1864
November 19. Broke camp about daylight, and after marching a short distance, were ordered to halt and tear up and burn the railroad track. The entire forenoon was spent in this manner, the track being torn up as far as Madison. It was quite…
Picture of Salisbury Prison
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948

Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…