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- Tags: Confederacy
Diary of Elizabeth Collier, April 20, 1865
April 20, 1865
We have lived in such a state of excitement for the past month that I have not had the time to write any thing which occurred but to begin at this late day—After the evacuation of Goldsboro—we were in constant expectation of the…
Map of Windsor During the Civil War
Tags: Confederacy, map, wartime, Windsor
Railway Ticket, 1860s
J.M. Hollowell, "Coming of the Yankees" (1939)
COMING OF THE YANKEES
(By J. M. HOLLOWELL)
Since I stopped writing of my early recollections of Goldsboro, I have been asked by some of the young folks why I did not tell more about the Yankee army coming to Goldsboro in 1865, and what they did,…
Map of the Carolinas Campaign
A letter written from John Futch to his wife Martha
Dear wife,
I recvd a letter from you the 5 of this Inst stating you all was well which I was glad to hear. I can say to you that I am well at to sore feet and cold which I hope theas few lines may com safe to hand and find you all well and harty.…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion, Letter
Letter of John Garibaldi to His Wife, September 3, 1863
Camp Stonewall Brigade September 3, 1863 Dear Wife I received your letter of the 8 of August last from which I understood with great pleasure that you and the rest of the family were all well, but sorrow to hear that you had been sick. This…
Tags: Civil War, Confederacy
Amnesty Petition of W. D. Jones, September 21, 1865
Caldwell Co. NC
To Andrew Johnson President of the US
The Petition of the undersigned W. D. Jones respectfully showeth that he is a citizen of Caldwell County North Carolina forty six years old and a farmer by profession desires to apply for a…
First in Flight: Desertion as Politics in the North Carolina Confederate Army
Tags: Confederacy, desertion
Letter from Major Smith Stansbury to Colonel Josiah Gorgas, September 2, 1863
St. George’s Ba.
September 1st, 1863–
Colonel J. Gorgas
Col: Your telegram of 21st Ulto. To Fort Fisher was received; in hand, just in time for the “Eugenie.â€
A copy was enclosed to Capt. Fry, and handed to me–
I…
Tags: blockade running, Confederacy, Economy, wartime
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…