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- Buck Lawler on 11 January 1865: “Their systematized falsehoods are so shameless and so notorious that all the world must distrust them.”
- Pool Party in Gurgaon on 4 January 1865: “Father said the Yanks made a clean sweep of everything, and we have lost all our worldly possessions except the few negroes here.”
- Pool Party in Gurgaon on 3 January 1865: “I went to the dairy to get a bucket with a little milk in it, a yankee came running half bent asking “what you got” I turned it bottom upwards and kept on”
- Pool Party in Gurgaon on 2 January 1865: “We had a very pleasant evening and were regaled in honour of the new year, which yesterday being Sunday was celebrated today, with egg-nog, Confederate cake and pop-corn.”
- Buck Lawler on 14 December 1864: “I respectfully request that all men belonging to this army and any reinforcements that can be spared be sent forward as soon as possible.”
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20 October 1862: “FRIENDS, TO THE RESCUE!!”
Item description: This broadside, which includes appeals from Governor Zebulon B. Vance, Surgeon General Edward Warren, and Assistant Quartermaster James Sloan, announces the State of North Carolina’s dire need of donations from private citizens to help clothe and shoe its … Continue reading
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