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Page two of Essie Harris Testimony via the Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States

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Vance’s Proclamation. The “Hideous Mark” to be fixed on Cowards and Traitors to the Confederacy. THE FRIENDS OF THE UNION TO BE MADE INFAMOUS Woe to the Men who Refuse to Fight for the South. THE FATHER OR THE BROTHER WHO HARBORS OR…

I often hear from non-history majors how hard history is because of all the memorization of facts and dates. I usually respond by stating that historians do not always memorize dates but, more significantly, understand time periods. While not as…

"I commenced my work with the freed people of color, in North Carolina, at Roanoke Island, soon after the battle of the 8th of February, 1862, which resulted so gloriously for our country.

A party of fifteen or twenty of these loyal blacks, men,…

This is a photograph of Colonel Josiah Gorgas, the Chief of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance. His early efforts to utilize the port of Wilmington as a gateway for a fleet of Government-owned blockade-runners did much to compound Wilmington's…

"A large portion of the citizens of Craven" met in a meeting on December 12, 1860, to discuss "the present alarming state of national affairs." The citizens noted that white North Carolinians possessed a common interest with the "slaveholding states"…