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Tag Archives: Confederacy
7 April 1865: “The evacuation of Richmond Petersburg on Sunday last was a hard blow to our cause but I am not discouraged God will yet save us from our Enemies”
Item Description: A letter from a concerned father in Greensboro to his daughter in Chapel Hill who is staying with her Aunt and Uncle. He fears that if Raleigh falls, Chapel Hill will become violent, and is expresses concern that she … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection, Uncategorized
Tagged Chapel Hill, Confederacy, General Lee, greensboro, Jonston, North Carolina, Peter Mallett Papers
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1 October 1864: “I can serve the country as well or better in my present position than in any other.”
Item Description: Letter dated 1 October 1864 written by W. H. Joyner. Joyner’s Uncle Sid was in prison at this time on Johnson Island. Item Citation: From folder 18, Joyner Family Papers (#04428), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged clerks, Confederacy, Joyner Family Papers, William H. Joyner
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15 September 1864: “The attention of Engineer Officers is called”
Item Description: An order from the Confederate War department to engineering officers. Item Citation: From Folder 13, in the Clayton Family Papers #4792, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item Transcription: Circular Confederate States of … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Civil War, Clayton Family Papers, Confederacy, engineers, orders
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10th September 1864: “His loss to the ‘Confederacy’ at this time, is a public calamity.”
Item Description: Two letters received by Mattie Ready on the same sheet of paper after her husband’s death. Her husband, named John Hunt Morgan, was a cavalry raider and brigadier general. Her family describes the fall of Atlanta and conditions in Georgia. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Atlanta, Civil War, Confederacy, Georgia, John Hunt Morgan, T. W. Fleming
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10 June 1864: “Soon their spirit would rise with the occasion, . . .”
Item Description: editorial, The Daily Journal (Wilmington, N. C.), 10 June 1864. Transcription: THE DAILY JOURNAL. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY JUNE 10, 1864. THE YANKEES and the Yankee papers, who are, to a great extent their … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Confederacy, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, newspapers
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