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- Tags: Women
Within the Plantation Household : Black and White Women of the Old South
Antebellum southern women, like all others, lived in a discrete social system and political economy within which gender, class, and race relations shaped their lives and identities. Thus, even a preliminary sketch of the history of southern women…
Tags: Life, Plantation, southern, Women
Letters on Female Character, Addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of Her Mother by Virginia Randolph Cary, 1828
Tags: Women
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…
Tags: Civil War, Confederate, Crops, Family, Female Patriotism, Home Front, North Carolina, South, Starvation, War-time, White Women, Women
Letter from R. M. Roark to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
Tags: Female Patriotism, Home Front, Protection, 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 Mary Woodward to Zebulon Baird Vance, September, 1863
Tags: Donation, Female Patriotism, Petition, State Government, Womanhood, 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 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 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 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
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908
Daniel Russell, a former Confederate soldier, became disillusioned by Southern leadership during the Civil War and joined the Republican Party in…