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Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, February 6, 1864
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
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
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…
John H. Hopkins, "On the Constitutional Rights and Duties of the American Citizen in Reference to Slavery," May 11, 1857
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, April 17, 1864
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…
Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 2010.
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…
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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…