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- Liz Bezera on 7 February 1864: “to place helpless women in such a position as this! none but a base grovelling covetous yankee would do it.”
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- Liz Bezera on 27 January 1864: “Dear relatives and friends I once more take up my pent to write you a few lines to inform you that I am as yet among the living.”
- Buck Lawler on 22 December 1863: “I have not broken the seal to my bottle of brandy yet and am going to try and hold on to it until Christmas morning, when it will be compelled to be opened”
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12 January 1862: “If there is an honorable road to get home, I shall spare no effort to find it as speedily as possible.”
Item description: Letter from Elisha Franklin Paxton to his wife, Elizabeth, dated 12 January 1862. Paxton is frustrated at being denied a furlough while other officers of equal rank have been receiving them. He informs his wife that he is … Continue reading
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Tagged 27th Regiment, commissioned officers, Elisha Franklin Paxton, furlough, homefront, resignations, soldier conditions, Unger's Store, Virginia, Virginia Volunteers
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16 November 1861: “The recommendation of the President of the Confederate States…appears to have been very generally complied with by our people and churches.”
Item description: On the 16 November 1861, the Wilmington Daily Journal reported on the day of “fasting, humiliation and prayer” that occurred the day before. According to the paper, the town’s residents and business’s “entered sincerely into the spirit of … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged commerce, day of fasting and prayer, home front, homefront, prayer, religion, religious beliefs, Wilmington, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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14 November 1861: “The President of the Confederate States having appointed Friday, the 15th inst., as a day of ‘fasting, humiliation and prayer’…”
Item description: In the Wilmington Daily Journal of 14 November 1861, this notice from John Dawson, mayor of Wilmington, was posted. The notice states that God is the only hope “to achieve success in the great struggle for liberty and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged day of fasting and prayer, fasting, home front, homefront, Jefferson Davis, John Dawson, prayer, religion, religious beliefs, Wilmington, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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13 November 1861: “We understand that the Independent Light Infantry and the LaFayette Light Infantry, of Fayetteville, are expected to arrive…”
Item description: In this piece from 13 November 1861, the editors of the Wilmington Daily Journal announce the arrival of two units of North Carolina soldiers, who are on their way home from Virginia. Item citation: The Daily Journal. 13 … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged home front, homefront, Independent Light Infantry, LaFayette Light Infantry, newspapers, travel, Wilmington, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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12 November 1861: “Will Lincoln back out or will he not? Upon this depends the future character of this struggle.”
Item description: In this piece from 12 November 1861, the editors of the Wilmington Daily Journal examine which way the current war will unfold. They ask if it will be “confined to the operations of large bodies acting strategically for … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, editorials, home front, homefront, letters of marque, naval, newspapers, piracy, prisoners-of-war, Wilmington, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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25 September 1861: “Many of us have been in service as long as four months, and neither officers or men of this regiment have received one cent of pay.”
Item description: Letter to Dennis Heartt, editor of the Hillsborough Recorder, from a soldier in the Sixth Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. In the letter, which was written on 10 September 1861 from Camp Jones, near Bristoe Station, Virginia, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 6th Regiment, bounty pay, Dennis Heartt, family, finances, homefront, North Carolina, North Carolina Troops, pay, soldier conditions, The Hillsborough Recorder
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