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Letter of Martha Hendley Poteet to Francis Marion Poteet, June 16, 1864

June the 16 1864Dear husband I cant get no person to cut my wheat the men says that they dont know what will be don with the wheat for there aint men to cut it and if I dont get Mine cut me and the children will be bound to suffer I would like for…

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Cornelia Spencer, "The Last Ninety Days of the War In North Carolina" (1866)

SCHOFIELD'S ARMY--SHERMAN'S--THEIR OUTRAGES--UNION SENTIMENT--A DISAPPOINTMENT--NINETY-TWO YEARS AGO--GOVERNOR GRAHAM--HIS ANCESTRY--HIS CAREER--GOVERNOR MANLY.

The town of Goldsboro was occupied by General Schofield's army on the twenty-first of…

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Letter of Martha Hendley Poteet to Francis Marion Poteet, June 16, 1864

Cornelia Spencer, "The Last Ninety Days of the War In North Carolina" (1866)

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Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902