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- Tags: Economy
"What Shall the South Do?," Wilmington Daily Herald, December 5, 1859
The chief actor in the affair at Harper's Ferry has expiated his crime upon the gallows. Old Brown has been hanged. What will be the result of this enforcement of the law? Will the effect be salutary upon the minds of the Northern people? Have we any…
"North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company," Raleigh Register, March 21, 1861
This company takes risks upon all healthy lives between the ages of 14 and 60 years--for one year, for seven years, or for life--the assurers for life participating in the profits of the Company. Slaves between the ages of 10 and 60 years, are…
Tags: Economy, Slavery/Slaves
"Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted," Raleigh Register, March 21, 1861
Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted. I desire to purchase from fifty to seventy fiveLikely Young Negroes, of both sexes, ranging from eight to thirty years old--such as will be saleable in the Southern Market. No unsound negro wanted. I will pay Richmond…
Tags: Economy, Slavery/Slaves
Summary Report, Claim of William Britton, June 11 1872
The claimant was 18 years of age when the war ended. He does not prove his loyalty although old enough for a soldier- testifies for himself, but does not ever say his sympathies- were with the union cause- He claims under his grandfather's will, who…
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
Endor Iron Works Ledger, 1864-1868
4/11, Payroll: $426.00, Expenses: $2986.93, Sales: 10036 lbs. pig iron at $.50/lb ($5018.00)
4/30, Payroll: $967.35, Expenses: $4793.37
5/11, Payroll: $546.67, Expenses: $225.00, Sales: 43598 lbs ($21,799.00)
5/17, Payroll: $1357.11, Expenses:…
Tags: Economy, Home Front
Washington Caruthers Kerr and Henry Benjamin Charles Nitze, Map of North Carolina Showing the Distribution of Iron Ores, 1892
Tags: Economy
Charles T. Jackson, Geological Map of Deep River Coal Field: From Recent Surveys, September 1853
Tags: Economy
Nathan A. Ramsey, Map of Chatham County, NC, 1870
Tags: Economy
Ebenezer Emmons, Map of the Deep River Coal Field, 1856
Tags: Economy
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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…