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- Tags: desertion
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Nov. 24, 1864)
Dear husband Nov 24th 1864 I Seat My self this eavning to write you a few lines to let you know that we are still in the land of the living I aint very well the children is well excepting bad colds but I do hope these few lines will Reach your kind…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (June 16, 1864)
My Dear husband I seat My self this evening to write you a few lines to let you know how we are Some of us is not well me and Thomas Francis Emer Susannah Amy Jane has the bowell complaint I aint Much sick but I do hope these few lines May Reach your…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Jan. 7, 1864)
My Dear husband I now seat my self to write you a few lines to let you know we are not well the children is sick with bad colds and I haint seen a well day since you left I have had a very bad head ache ever sens last Sunday but I do hope and pray…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Jan. 21, 1864)
My Dear husband I recieved your kind letter last satturday and I was glad to hear that you was well I cant write we are all well we all hav bad colds I hav had a pain in my head three weeks and the baby is sick and I dont think it will live long but…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Martha Hendley Poteet, Letter to Francis Marion Poteet (Aug. 19, 1864)
Dear husband I seat my self this evening to write you afew lines to let you know that we are all well at this time ever hoping this will Reach your kind hands and find you in good health I thought you would have sent me a letter by Louis Walker but…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Lt. Col. S. H. Walkup, "A Plea for Supplies" (1862)
A plea for supplies
Lt. Col. S. H. Walkup to Gov. Zebulon Vance, October 11, 1862, in the Governors Papers, North Carolina State Archives.
Camp Near Winchester Va. Octr 11th, 1862.
Govr. Z. B. Vance,
I lay before you for your…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
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…
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…
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
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
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