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Tag Archives: home front
12 June 1863: “we have been living entirely on credit, & obliged to remove one daughter from school.”
Item description: Letter, 12 June 1863, from Mary E. Bell to William S. Pettigrew. In the letter, Bell describes her family’s misfortunes and asks for monetary aid from Pettigrew so that she may pay for her daughter’s school fees to … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged displacement, Enfield, home front, Mary E. Bell, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, Plymouth, refuge, Salem, Salem College, schools, William S. Pettigrew, women
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7 May 1863: “AN APPEAL For The Sick And Wounded Soldiers“
Item Description: In this broadside, members of the Salisbury [N.C.] Way-Side Hospital committee call for donations of “provisions, medicines, delicacies for the sick, and money” to help care for wounded and sick soldiers. The appeal ends with a call to … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged broadsides, Confederate hospital, home front, homefront, hospitals, North Carolina, Salisbury, Salisbury Way-side Hospital, sickness, soldier conditions, wounded soldiers
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4 March 1863: “Every day of my experience in teaching adds to my firm conviction that, if faithfully done, ‘t’is the most laborious of all employments…”
Item description: Letter, 4 March 1863, from Thomas L. Norwood to uncle Walter Waightstill Lenoir about how uncomfortable Thomas was with the idea of being a teacher like others in his family. Item citation: From the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, … Continue reading
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Tagged education, home front, Lenoir family, North Carolina, Oaks, teachers, Thomas Norwood, Walter Waightstill Lenoir
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14 February 1863: “This is Valentines day and I hope to get one from her.”
Item description: Letter, 14 February 1863, believed to be from James M. and Laura Gwyn to their aunt, Mary Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Garrett Lenoir. Item citation: From folder 151 of the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Murfreesboro, family, Gwyn family, holidays, home front, Lenoir family, love, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir, poetry, runaways, slaves, Valentine's Day
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12 February 1863: “I am here gathering up conscripts straglers and absentees and hope you will come up before I leave”
Item description: Letter, 12 February 1863, from Robert E. Brumby to his sister Sarah Simpson, while he was on leave in Goodman, Mississippi. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From the Simpson and Brumby Family Papers, #1408-z, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged absentees, Brumby family, Emancipation Proclamation, family, Goodman, home front, illness, Mississippi, peace, Robert E. Brumby, Sarah Brumby Simpson
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28 January 1863: “Well, Judge, if they are our enemies we will have to admit they have fine music…”
Item description: Letter, 28 January 1863, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga., to her sister, Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C. (replying to Bettie’s letter of 18 January). Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Maney Schon, Bettie Kimberly, clothes, family, home front, Kimberly family, Nashville, Schon family, supplies
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18 January 1863: “I made twelve garments last week and worked sixty-two button holes and sewed on as many buttons. Can you equal that?”
Item description: Letter, 18 January 1863, from Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C., to her sister, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga. Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Maney, Atlanta, Bettie Kimberly, Chapel Hill, children, Georgia, home front, Kimberly family, North Carolina, women
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10 January 1863: “I have rented my home to them & we are living at the Hotel, quite a change for us…”
Item description: Letter, 10 January 1863, to Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir. The name of the letter’s writer is illegible. Item citation: From the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: [Mrs. Thos. … Continue reading
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Tagged Asheville, displacement, home front, hotels, Lenoir family, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir, money, North Carolina, shinplaster, supplies
Comments Off on 10 January 1863: “I have rented my home to them & we are living at the Hotel, quite a change for us…”
26 December 1862: “he was sitting in the door playing the fiddle and aunt Dilsy was dancing fit to kill herself! It was sunday evening at that.”
Item description: Letter, 26 December 1862, from Mary (Mame) Faucette (1842-1896) to her Aunt Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880). [Transcription available below images] Item citation: From the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
30 November 1862: “she was on the eve of starting for N. Orleans, said Butler would allow ladies to go in and out now, and that a great many are going down to attend to their husband’s business.”
Item description: Entry, 30 November 1862, from the diary of Sarah Lois Wadley. More about Sarah Lois Wadley: Sarah Lois Wadley was born in 1844 in New Hampshire, the daughter of railroad superintendent William Morrill Wadley (1813-1882) and Rebecca Barnard Everingham … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, General Benjamin Franklin Butler, home front, New Orleans, reading, Sarah Lois Wadley, women
Comments Off on 30 November 1862: “she was on the eve of starting for N. Orleans, said Butler would allow ladies to go in and out now, and that a great many are going down to attend to their husband’s business.”