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Sunday, Sept. 7th, 1862
Mrs. L. Carr-Dear Mother,
As Mr. Bass is going to start home early in the morning, will write you a few lines and let you know who we are getting along. We are all tolerable well. Sam Evans was taken quite sick day before…

I understand the people of Wilkes are baldy whipped and willing for our patriotic old State to return to the pretended Union, and claim Abraham Lincoln as their chief magistrate. I have also been told that the country was full of deserters and no…

Satellite imagery mosaic of the Chowan River Basin.

This picture depicts a table of slave ownership in the slave owning states in the United States. The reason I used this source was to provide first hand information on how many slaves were in North Carolina and Virginia to show how similar the ration…

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 Walter, they have a terrible state of things upon the Tennessee line particularly in Watauga County. There is a band of robbers and villains who are constantly plundering the people in the night, when resolute and prepared they succeed in…

William J. Murray was called upon by the Board of Managers in the prosecution of Gov. Holden regarding any matters of insurrection in Alamance County. William J. Murray was brother of Albert Murray, the sheriff and William himself served as deputy…

William Puryear was an African-American taken from his home in the middle of the night by the Ku Klux Klan and murdered, being drowned in a lake with a rock tied to his waist. Matilda Puryear, William’s wife, testifies that she was with her husband…

Josiah Turner Jr. was a high profile witness called upon by the Board of Managers and the prosecution during Gov. Holden’s impeachment. Born and raised in the town of Hillsboro in Orange County, he was a lawyer and editor that had been living in…

Jesse Gant was a political figure for forty years in both the counties of Alamance and Orange, North Carolina. The Board of Managers attempted to examine many respectable and well known men from the counties in question during the trial, and Mr. Gant…