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Diary of Emma Holmes , March 4, 1865
Later two more knocked at the door, came in & entered into conversation with Mrs. M[ickle]. Finding them well behaved, I fired volley after volley of rebel shot at them. One was from Illinois, the other from Pennsylvania-both young, as indeed…
Within the Plantation Household : Black and White Women of the Old South
Antebellum southern women, like all others, lived in a discrete social system and political economy within which gender, class, and race relations shaped their lives and identities. Thus, even a preliminary sketch of the history of southern women…
Tags: Life, Plantation, southern, Women
Diary of Elizabeth Collier, April 25, 1865
April 25, 1865 Gen Johnston has surrendered his army! We have no army now-We have been overpowered-outnumbered, but thank God we have not been whipped—Did I ever think to live to see this day! After all the misery & anguish of the four…
Union Prisoners at Salisbury, NC
Major John H. Gee, 1819-1876
Edward Stanly to Zebulon Baird Vance, October 21, 1862
From Ed. StanlyNew Bern No. Ca. October 21, 1862 The strong affection which I have inherited & cherish for the people of my native State, has induced me to come here, by request of the President of the United States. Nations like individuals,…
Letter from Edward Jones Hale Jr. to James Lane, July 31, 1865
Fayetteville, N.C., July 31st, 1865.
My Dear General:
It would be impossible to give you an adequate idea of the destruction of property in this good old town. It may not be an average instance; but it is one the force of whose truth we feel…
"Editorial Notes on the South," May 31, 1867
If an election of any kind were to be held in the South within the next month, there is no reasonable doubt that three-fourths of the negro vote would be cast with the Southern white vote. There is perfect accord between the large portion of the…
Tags: Class Relations, Free Blacks, Race relations, Suffrage
Edgar Folk and Bynum Shaw, W. W. Holden, (1982)
When Holdne took office as provisional governor of North Carolina in June, 1865, the task he faced would have dismayed a less energetic man. Government in the state was utterly disorganized; all offices were vacant. The state was without money and…
Tags: postwar
William Woods Holden, 1818 -1892
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession, W.W. Holden
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D. H. Hill, 1859-1924
Daniel Harvey (D. H.) Hill (1859-1924), the son of Confederate general D. H. Hill, was an important figure in the commemoration of the Civil War and…