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Tag Archives: Jane Caroline “Carey” North Pettigrew
27 August 1863: “We left them in trouble on account Henrietta’s eldest child having diptheria”
Item description: Letter, dated 27 August 1863, from Jane Gibert Pettigru North to her daughter, Jane Caroline “Carey” North Pettigrew. In the letter, she discusses the lives and health of friends and family members, as well as her recent experience … Continue reading
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Tagged Cedar Springs, Charles Lockhart Pettigru, diptheria, health, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Jane Petigru North, Spartanburg, springs
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5 February 1863: “On Saturday 31 we received the news of our glorious victory…”
Item description: Letter, dated 5 February 1863, from Louise Pettigru to Jane Caroline “Cary” North Pettigrew. This letter describes an attack by Confederate gunboats on Union blockaders outside the Charleston harbor. [pages 5 and 6 of letter missing] Item Citation: … Continue reading
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Tagged blockade, Captain Ingraham, Charleston, Chicora, Edmund Kirby-Smith, General William Whiting, Ironsides, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Palmetto State, South Carolina, St. Philip's Church, Vicksburg
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3 February 1863, “I very much fear that famine will be among the trials that avail our people…”
Item Description: Letter, dated 3 February 1863, from Jane Gibert Pettigrew North (abbreviated JGN) to her brother, James L. Pettigrew. She is writing from Badwell, a family plantation in South Carolina, to James while is is practicing law in Charleston. … Continue reading
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Tagged Badwell Plantation, Charles Lockhart Pettigru, Charleston, corn, famine, hiring out of slaves, James L. Pettigrew, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Jane Petigru North, Mary "Minnie" Charlotte North Allston, North Carolina, South Carolina
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12 January 1863: “…the pony is very nearly starved into death.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 12 January 1863 from Charles Lockhart Pettigrew to his wife, Jane Caroline North Pettigrew. The letter describes his visit to the area near Winston, NC where his slaves have been hired out to work on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne B.S. Pettigrew, Charles Lockhart Pettigru, disease, Goldsboro, greensboro, hiring out of slaves, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Lincoln, measles, Mocksville, North Carolina, oath of allegiance, railroad, Scuppernong, slaves, smallpox, South Carolina, William Pettigrew, Winston
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27 June 1862: “he says he fears a famine for the country. isn’t it a fearful prospect?”
Item description: Letter, 27 June 1862, from Jane Caroline North Pettigrew (wife of Charles Lockhart Pettigrew) to her brother-in-law, William S. Pettigrew. The letter illustrates how dispersed the Pettigrew family has become at this point in the war. The writer, … Continue reading
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Tagged body servants, Charles Pettigrew, Chatham County, Cherry Hill Plantation, home front, James Johnston Pettigrew, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, North Carolina, Peter, Pettigrew family, plantations, slavery, slaves, South Carolina, William S. Pettigrew
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22 March 1862: “…the most extraordinary & unaccountable panic took possession of some white men…”
Item description: In this letter, 22 March 1862, Jane Caroline North Pettigrew wrote to her mother, Jane Petigru North, about her husband’s plans to remove their slaves from Magnolia and Bonarva plantations to Chatham County in central North Carolina, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonarva Plantation, Charles Pettigrew, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Jane Petigru North, Magnolia Plantation, slave insurrections, slaves
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27 January 1862: “We must know something more decided as to these marauders before any of us move.”
Item description: Letter, 27 January 1862, from Jane Caroline North Pettigrew to her brother, James Johnston Pettigrew. Caroline comments on the impending arrival of Burnside’s forces and the prevailing feeling of uncertainty among residents of coastal North Carolina. … Continue reading
22 January 1862: “I am packed for flight and from day to day we do not know when the order to leave may come.”
Item description: Letter, 22 January 1862, from Mary (“Minnie”) Charlotte North Allston to her sister, Jane Caroline “Carey” North Pettigrew. Minnie describes her anxieties relating to the impending arrival of the Burnside Expedition and the likelihood that she will soon … Continue reading
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Tagged Burnside Expedition, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Mary "Minnie" Charlotte North Allston, North Carolina, occupation, Pettigrew family
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22 October 1861: “What an unhappy scamp is Peter – but pray dont be too hard on poor Laura – she was young & a fool”
Item description: Letter, 22 October 1861, from Jane Petigru North, Badwell Plantation, Abbeville, South Carolina, to her daughter, Jane Caroline “Carey” North Pettigrew, Bonarva Plantation, Tyrrell County, N.C. The letter briefly mentions Peter, quite possibly the slave who had fathered a … Continue reading
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Tagged Badwell Plantation, body servants, Bonarva Plantation, James Johnston Pettigrew, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, Jane Petigru North, North Carolina, Peter, Pettigrew family, slavery, slaves, South Carolina, Tyrrell County
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6 September 1861: “We have thought continually of you, since the startling intelligence arrived of the enemy having established themselves so near you!”
Item description: Letter, 6 September 1861, from “Anna,” of Charleston, S.C., to Jane Caroline “Carey” North Pettigrew, in Tyrrell County, N.C. The writer’s identity is not known, although Anna appears to be one of Carey Pettigrew’s cousins. The letter describes … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Pettigrew, Charleston, coastal areas, Jane Caroline "Carey" North Pettigrew, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, South Carolina, Tyrrell County
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