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Civil War Service Record of Charles Jones, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Edward Bell, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Elias Moore, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Civil War Service Record of Julian Williams, 1863
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, soldier
Commander of the Department of North Carolina to the Secretary of War, May 5, 1863
New Bern No Ca May 5 1863 Sir A letter from Gov Andrew of date April 1st is referred to me by the War Department under date of April 27th, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the same and in reply beg leave to say. If it be the policy of…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Soldiers
Discharged North Carolina Black Soldier to the Freedmen's Bureau Claim Agent at Baltimore, Maryland, December 1870
East Newmarket Dorchester Co Md {December 1870}
Dear Sir
I Receved yore kind letter Concerning my Discharge in 1861 the manspation had not taken place but I was in the protection By the youion Troops an Sat free by Presadence Lincon at…
Tags: Enlistment, Freedpeople, Slavery/Slaves, Soldiers
Effects of the Proclamation, Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at New Bern, North Carolina, February 21, 1863
Tags: Freedpeople, slavery, Slaves, Soldiers
Excerpt from the Memoirs of W.W. Holden, June 12, 1865
And in my first proclamation to the people of the State I used the following language in regard to the colored people: -
To the colored people of the State I would say, you are now free. Providence has willed that the very means adopted to render…
Tags: Freedpeople, North Carolina, W.W. Holden
General Ambrose E. Burnside to the Secretary of War, March 21, 1862
Newbern {N.C.} Mch 21 /62 I have the honor of reporting the following movements in my department since my hurrid report of the 16” inst- The detailed report of the Engagement on the 14” is not yet finished, but I hope will be ready to…
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James' Plantation Freedmen's School, ca. October 1868
Tags: Education, Freedpeople
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"Grand Democratic Rally," Raleigh News and Observer, May 13, 1898
On May 12, 1898, the Democratic Party of North Carolina held its first campaign rally in Laurinburg N.C. Following the procession of a band and…