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The 25th North Carolina Troops in the Civil War
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…
The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape
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…
The Census of 1860.
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…
The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers and Civilians letters and diaries, 1861-1865
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…
The Declaration of Independence of North Carolina, May 11, 1861
A Declaration of Independence written by the North Carolina Senate.
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ROTC students view Civil War exhibit at NCSU, 1960
In this photograph, two Reserve Officers' Training Corps students view a Civil War exhibit at D. H. Hill Library at North Carolina State College of…