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- Tags: desertion
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, September 28, 1863
Near Rapidan Station Va.
Sept. 28th 1863.
My Dear wife:
This will inform you that I am about well again, and I hope it may find you well. The weather is cold up here now, and we have frost plenty, and…
A letter written from John Futch to his wife Martha
Dear wife,
I recvd a letter from you the 5 of this Inst stating you all was well which I was glad to hear. I can say to you that I am well at to sore feet and cold which I hope theas few lines may com safe to hand and find you all well and harty.…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion, Letter
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, January 30, 1864
Near Orange, Va.
January, 30th, 1864.
My Dear wife:
I have the pleasure of dropping you a few lines, informing you that I arrived at the company yesturday evening. I got all my boxes here safe, but lost my valice and every thing in it. But I…
Tags: desertion, Family, Punishment
Letter of Joseph J. Hoyle to Sarah Hoyle, July 25, 1863
Near Culpeper,
July, 25th 1863.
My Dear wife:
I have the opportunity of dropping you a few lines this evening, informing you that I am not very well. I have been unwell since we left Winchester, and the march has set very hard upon me, but I…
Tags: desertion, Troop Movement
Lewis B. Banner, 1805-1883
Lewis Bitting Banner was born in 1805 in Surry County, North Carolina. In 1856, Lewis B. Banner, his wife Nancy Meadow Flipping, and their seven children moved to Watauga County, North Carolina where their eighth child was born. He bought two…
Judith Lee Hallock, "The Role of the Community in Civil War Desertion" (1983)
THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY
IN CIVIL WAR DESERTION
Judith Lee Hallock
Communities, like individuals, have personalities, and their response to
crises reflect their peculiar characteristics. During the Civil War,
Northern communities played an…
Tags: desertion
Layers of Loyalty: Confederate Nationalism and Amnesty Letters from Western North Carolina
Katherine Giuffre, "First in Flight: Desertion as Politics in the North Carolina Confederate Army" (1997)
"In place of open mutiny, [powerless groups] prefer desertion...They make use of implicit understandings and informal networks...When such stratagems are abandoned in favor of more quixotic action, it is usually a sign of great desperation." Scott…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Peter S Bearman, "Desertion as Localism: Army Unit Solidarity and Group Norms in the U.S. Civil War" (1991)
Drawing from the experiences of 3,126 enlisted men from North Carolina who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, the author focuses on the determinants of desertion. Men deserted because their identity as Southerners was eroded by an emergent…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Richard Bardolph, "Inconstant Rebels: Desertion of North Carolina Troops in the Civil War" (1964)
That the Confederate soldier has no superior in the annals of war is an article of the American Creed. His accomplishments against overwhelming odds, through four years of heroic suffering, are his monument. Magnificent in his forbearance and his…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
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North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge in presidential election, November 6, 1860
On November 6, 1860, in the presidential election, North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge (pictured), the southern Democratic nominee,…