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Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, February 22, 1864

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Near Orange C. H. Va
Monday, Feb. 22nd, 1864

My Dear wife:
I again have the pleasing opportunity of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I am as well as usual. I have nothing new to write you, except the weather is more pleasant…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, June 4, 1862

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Camp Mangum, N.C.
June 4th, 1862

My Dear wife:
I seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines. I am well except a cold. I have had two or three sick brushes since I have been here; and I would have come home last week but I could not get a…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, April 17, 1864

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Camp on the Rapidan, Va.
April 17th, 1864

My Dear wife:
I have the pleasure again of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I am well, and I hope this will find you well. We are still having a great deal of rain, and, although it puts us…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, February 6, 1864

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Near Orange C. H. Va.,
Feb 6th, 1864

My Dear wife:
I again have the pleasure of dropping you a few lines informing you that I am well at present and I hope this will find you well. Every thing continues quiet with us. We have some fine weather…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Spirit of the Age, June 16, 1862

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The following letter was printed in the June 16, 1862, Raleigh newspaperSpirit of the Age. Camp Mangum, June 11. Mr. Editor: This will inform the friends of the "South Mountain Rangers," that we are still at this place, and probably will remain…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, May 30, 1862

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Camp Mangum near Raleigh
May 30th, 1862

My Dear Wife:
I grasp my pen this morning to drop you a few lines. I am tolerably well, and I hope these lines may find you well. I received your kind letter through Mr. Brindle, and I read it with much…

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John H. Hopkins, "On the Constitutional Rights and Duties of the American Citizen in Reference to Slavery," May 11, 1857

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The article published in the Fayetteville Observer, was an excerpt written by Bishop Hopkins from his book titled “The American Citizen: His Rights and Duties, According to the Spirit of the Constitution of the United States.” A bishop in…

Letter from Daniel Wilson to S S Jocelyn, November 26, 1858

Sawyersville Nov the 26th 1858

To Revrnd. S S Jocelyn Sec of the AMA

Dear Brother
After a long delay I again address you to Inform you that whatever may have been the Impressions made on your mind by others; as to the Writer that I still feel…

Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle April 13, 1862

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The following letter was printed in the April 13, 1863, issue of the Spirit of the Age.

Deteriorating Influences of War. No. I

This important topic justly claims the attention of all good men and women; for it has a direct bearing upon the…

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Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 2010.

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William E. Mongomery's fine study of the African American church in the postbellum South informs readers that nineteenth-century whites often condescendingly described black worship as "long on religion and short on Christianity." Such a statement…