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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…
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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
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
Conditional Confederates: Absenteeism Among Western North Carolina Soldiers 1861-1865
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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
First in Flight: Desertion as Politics in the North Carolina Confederate Army
Tags: Confederacy, desertion
Francis Marion Poteet, Letter to Martha Hendley Poteet (Jan. 12, 1864)
My Dear Wife and Children I take the pleasure to drop you a few lines to let you now that I am well at this time hoping these lines may Reach your kind hands and find you injoying the same blessing I want you to Rite to me as soon as this comes to…
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
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
Layers of Loyalty: Confederate Nationalism and Amnesty Letters from Western 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…