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"Reply by Governor Ellis to request by United States Secretary of War for troops from North Carolina", April 14, 1861

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War Department Washington, April 15, 1861 - (Teleghaphie [sic]) To Gov. Ellis Call made on you by to night's mail for two Regiments of Military for immediate service. Simon Cameron Secretary of War Reply.Executive Department Raleigh, April 15, 1861…

Letter from John W. Halliburton to Juliet Halliburton, March 6, [1861]

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Chapel Hill
March the 6th
My Darling.

You have consented to let one sunday pass without giving to me the accustomed salute. I have not been well at ease since Ed's letter was recieved. He said that you were very sorry. My Darling is it always…

Amnesty Petition of John Manning, Jr., June 19, 1865

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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…

"General Assembly Resolutions submitted and referred to committee", January 1861

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Jan. 7, 1861. Resolved that the Governor be requested to inform the Senate if any portion of the citizens of North Carolina have consulted with him upon the propriety of taking possession of the United States forts in North Carolina or any one of…

"The Secession Excitement; North Carolina Legislature," New York Times, December 20, 1860

RALEIGH, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 20.

The bill to arm the State passed its third reading in the House yesterday. An effort to take it up to-day failed.

The Assembly takes a recess till the 7th of January.

The Commissioners from Alabama and…

An Ordinance to dissolve the Union Between The State of North Carolina and The United States, May 20, 1861.

ODRINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE
STATE CONVENTION.

[No. 1.]

AN ORDINANCE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BETWEEN
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND
THE OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER
THE COMPACT OF GOVERNMENT ENTITLED THE
CONSTITUTION…

"Cadet Paul Faison to his father regarding resigning his commission at West Point," April 12 and 14, 1861

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West Point N.Y. April 12, 1861
Dear Father Since,
I last wrote you [ev]ents have been daily occuring which leads to the conviction that there will be no compromise, and that the border states will be compelled to secede however unwilling they may…

John W. Ellis, 1820-1862

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John Willis Ellis was a North Carolina lawyer, legislator, judge, and Democratic governor. Born in Rowan County in 1820, he was a son of a Planter. Ellis graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1841, and served as a lawyer, until he was…

Jospeh C. Sitterson, The Secession Movement in N.C. (1939)

On May 1, the legislature met ins special secession. Governor Eillis, in his message, Reviewed the theory on which the government of the United States was founded and discussed fully the Constitutional aspects of coercion. Assuming that the state…

Bartholomew F. Moore, 1801-1878

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Bartholomew F. Moore was a lawyer and leader of the Unionist cause for North Carolina during the Civil War. Moore was one of many people that gave creditability to a pro-Union cause and was against the act of secession. Even with the abandonment of…