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Tag Archives: churches
17 August 1864: “how I had long desired to join the Church”
Item Description: Diary entry dated 17 August 1864 from Sarah Lois Wadley. She writes about the impending visit of an episcopal minister and her desire to join the church. Item Citation: From volume 4 (folder 5) in the Sarah Lois … Continue reading
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Tagged churches, diaries, diary, religion, Sarah Lois Wadley, social conditions, social life
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3 August 1863: “Nearly all the houses have been struck by their shot and shell and a great many doors are broken in and windows smashed.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 3 August 1863, written by James Augustus Graham, stationed in Virginia, to his mother, residing in Hillsborough, NC. James Graham served in the 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America and lived until 1908 … Continue reading
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Tagged churches, Fredericksburg, Hanover Junction, marching, weather
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30 July 1861: “A resolution to dispose of donations made by certain Churches on the late Fast Day.”
Item description: Resolution (approved on 30 July 1861) concerning the disposition of financial donations made to the Confederate States of America by Southern churches, as published in “The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of … Continue reading
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Tagged churches, Confederate Congress, day of fasting and prayer, donations, Provisional Congress, Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, resolutions
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14 July 1861: “The Communion was administered to the white members and then to the negroes; I thought the Communion of the negroes was very affecting…”
Item description: Sarah Lois Wadley was the daughter of William Morrill Wadley (1812?-1882) and Rebecca Barnard Everingham Wadley (fl. 1840-1884) and lived with her family in homes near Amite in Tangipahoa Parish, Monroe and Oakland in Ouachita Parish, La., and … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, churches, home front, ladies' relief societies, Louisiana, Ouachita Parish, religion, Sarah Lois Wadley, segregation, Vicksburg, Wadley family, women
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