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The Civil War Letters of W.D. Carr of Duplin County, North Carolina
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 1862
Mrs. L. Carr-Dear Mother,
As Mr. Bass is going to start home early in the morning, will write you a few lines and let you know who we are getting along. We are all tolerable well. Sam Evans was taken quite sick day before…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion, Letters
Younce, W. H. "A civil war at home: Treatment of Unionists" (1901)
A civil war at home: Treatment of Unionists
W. H. Younce, The Adventures of a Conscript (Cincinnati: The Editor Pub. Co., 1901), pp. 57–62.
At home again.
Our purpose was to try to reach my father’s home that night, but about the middle…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Zebulon Vance, "Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters" (1863)
Vance’s Proclamation. The “Hideous Mark” to be fixed on Cowards and Traitors to the Confederacy. THE FRIENDS OF THE UNION TO BE MADE INFAMOUS Woe to the Men who Refuse to Fight for the South. THE FATHER OR THE BROTHER WHO HARBORS OR…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Drawing of hanging (1970-80)
"They hung my son by the limb of a tree"
Drawing of a Civil War deserter being hanged from a tree.
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Letter from The Citizens of Pittsboro to Zebulon Baird Vance, March 3, 1865
Tags: desertion, Petition, Protection, State Government
Conditional Confederates: Absenteeism Among Western North Carolina Soldiers 1861-1865
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A Sermon: Preached before Brig.-Gen. Hoke's Brigade, at Kinston, N. C., on the 28th of February, 1864, by Rev. John Paris, Chaplain Fifty-Fourth Regiment N. C. Troops,
upon the Death of Twenty-Two Men, Who Had Been Executed in the Presence of the Brigade for the Crime of Desertion
You are aware, my friends, that I have given public notice that upon this occasion I would preach a funeral discourse upon the death of the twenty-two unfortunate, yet wicked and deluded men, whom you have witnessed hanged upon the gallows within a…
Tags: Confederacy, desertion
Richard Reid "A Testcase of the 'Crying Evil': Desertion Among North Carolina Troops During the Civil War" (1981)
A major problem that faced both armies during the Civil war was desertion. As the conflict dragged on into a protracted war of attrition, the loss of men through absenteeism struck hardest at the South. Before the end of 1861 it had become a problem…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Job R. Redmond, Letter to Malinda Redmond (Nov. 2, 1864)
My Dier wife and children I seete my self this morning with A Troub beled harte and a de strest Mind to try to rite a few lines to Let you no that I hierd my sentens Red yesterday and hit was very Bad I am very sory to let you no for I that you A…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…