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- Tags: Womanhood
Letter from Catherine Carson to Zebulon Baird Vance, July 8, 1864
Buck Creek July 8th 1864
Governor Vance
Dear Sir,
I take the liberty of asking you whether you can not process my son’s discharge from the army that he may come home to protect me and his sister.
Since the late raid on Camp Vance there are…
Tags: Family, Protection, State Government, Womanhood, Women
Diary of Elizabeth Collier, April 20, 1865
April 20, 1865
We have lived in such a state of excitement for the past month that I have not had the time to write any thing which occurred but to begin at this late day—After the evacuation of Goldsboro—we were in constant expectation of the…
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood 1865-1895
Although the imagery of belledom looms especially large in writings about the Antebellum South, the actual ideal for women even then had been much more complex and divided. Through the early part of the nineteenth century, the celebration of the…
Tags: Postwar era, the South, Womanhood
Letter from Ladies of Cleveland County NC to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
To your excellency Z. B. Vance Governor of the state of North Carolina
To do Hospitality make known to your excellency that we [apistice] in the expenses of the above named [tabnaut] and the expenses and that most Mary Woodward was fulfilling of…
Tags: Family, Home Front, State Government, Womanhood, Women
Letter from R. M. Roark to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
Tags: Female Patriotism, Home Front, Protection, Womanhood, Women
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…
Letter from Mary A. Windsor to Zebulon Baird Vance, February 1, 1865
Reidsville NC Feb. the 1st 1865
Gov Vance Honored Sir,
Permit me the pleasure of communicating to you a few of my thoughts by way of letter and of asking a great favor of you that is concerning my dear and beloved husband who has been gone from…
Tags: Family, Home Front, Protection, State Government, Womanhood, Women
Letter from Mary Woodward to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
Tags: Donation, Female Patriotism, Petition, State Government, Womanhood, Women
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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…