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Jacqueline Glass Campbell, When Sherman Marched North from the Sea (2003)
By integrating evidence from soldiers and civilians, black and white, at a moment when home front and battlefront merged, Sherman's March becomes a far more complex story-one that illuminated the importance of culture for determining the limits of…
Tags: Confederate, Confederate Woman, North Carolina, Women
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008)
She was a slave in the South and a fugitive in the South and in the North. She was an abolitionist, the author of a published slave narrative. She was a relief worker during the Civil War, and after Reconstruction, she was an entrepreneur. Although…
Tags: Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
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
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 Laura R. McDaniel and M. Joyner Kerr to Zebulon Baird Vance, March 4, 1865
March 4 1865
To his excellency out most worthy Governor
Z. B. Vance
[to] [the] [amdenesided] to [end] the following heartfelt petition. whereas [anoter] son and the place of our [eyonrm] Fayetteville is threatened by the enemy is at present…
Tags: Home Front, occupation, Protection, Women
Letter from Martha Hendley Poteet to Francis Marion Poteet, February 4, 1864
N C Mcdowell Co 1864 thursday Feb the 4 My Dear husband I recieved your kind and loving letter last saturday and was glad to hear fom you and hear you was well but sory to hear sunday that you was not well we are not well they nearly all hav had sore…
Tags: Confederate Woman, Home Front, Homelife, North Carolina, wartime, Women
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
Letter from Mrs. Love to Zebulon Baird Vance, March 31, 1864
Claytonville Nor. Car.
March 31st 1864
Gov. Z. B. Vance
My dear sir,
I would have ventured to write sometime ago but continuing good health helps me at home (my mother in law) I have not been to the village (H) since Dec 24th ‘till last…
Tags: Family, Home Front, Starvation, State Government, Women
Letter from R. M. Roark to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
Tags: Female Patriotism, Home Front, Protection, Womanhood, Women
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948
Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…