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In a somewhat similar view of the case the New HavenJournal and Courier looks upon the bill as "an immediate result of the refusal of the Southern States to accept the proposed Constitutional Amendment." For, while Congress was willing last Summer to…

Front: C.S.A.
1861-1865
TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS OF CHATHAM COUNTY
OUR CONFEDERATE HEROES

Side: THIS MONUMENT IS THE GIFT OF THOSE WHO
RESERVE THE MEMORY OF THE CONFEDERATE
SOLDIER. ERECTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE WINNIE
DAVIS CHAPTER…

Pittsboro N.C. June 7th 1865

To His Excellency Andrew Johnson
President of the U.S. of A.

The petition of John Manning Jr. of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina. respectfully shows to your Excellency, that he was born in…

"The claimant says his sympathies were for the Union;- but after the war began "of course I could not wish for the defeat of our troops." This in reply to 214.

He was in the Home Guard and hunted deserters- was the first to go in & the last to go…

"The claimant is a farmer 63 years of age in Rialto in Chatham Co. N.C.- He says that his sympathies were constantly with the cause of the Union- cast his vote on the side of the Union & advised staying in the Union. During the war secessionist…

"When claimant found he had to go into the service in 1863 he volunteered in a horse Company so as to keep out of the Infantry and continued with Rebel Service over a year.

This service was inconsistent with loyal adherence to the cause of Union…

"The claimant is 70 years of age & a farmer- Has resided in Chatham Co. throughout the war- He had four sons who volunteered in the Confederate Army- He furnished them provisions- that he was opposed secession in the outset is quite probable, but…

"Claimant swears that he was a union man but that he sympathized with the people of the South. One of his witnesses says that he also was a union man at the leastful- despaired of the cause and went with his friends. His second witness says that…