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- Buck Lawler on 26 February 1865: “I now have the honour to tender my resignation”
- Buck Lawler on 23 Febrary 1865: “There is one thing sertain this war cannot last many months longer”
- Buck Lawler on 2 February 1865: “The inclination of my mind at present is that the proposed change in the charter of the Danville Bank would be unconstitutional.”
- 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.”
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19 March 1864: “I have never yet met any of the negro soldiers and hope I never may.”
Item Description: Letter, dated 19 March 1864, written by James Augustus Graham. James Graham served in the 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America and lived until 1908. [Transcription available below images.] Item Citation: From the James Augustus Graham Papers, #00283, … Continue reading
7 January 1864: “I wish our Ladies Solidiers Aid Society in Hillsboro would make about fifty prs of gloves for our Company as very few of the men have gloves and they would be very acceptable such weather as this especially on picket.”
Item description: Letter, dated 7 January 1864, from James A. Graham to his mother. Item citation: From the James A. Graham Papers #00283, Southern Historical Collection,The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Camp 27th No. Ca. Inf’y near … Continue reading
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Tagged 27th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, clothes, Hillsborough (N.C.), James A. Graham, ladies' relief societies, substitutes, weather, winter, winter quarters
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14 July 1861: “The Communion was administered to the white members and then to the negroes; I thought the Communion of the negroes was very affecting…”
Item description: Sarah Lois Wadley was the daughter of William Morrill Wadley (1812?-1882) and Rebecca Barnard Everingham Wadley (fl. 1840-1884) and lived with her family in homes near Amite in Tangipahoa Parish, Monroe and Oakland in Ouachita Parish, La., and … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, churches, home front, ladies' relief societies, Louisiana, Ouachita Parish, religion, Sarah Lois Wadley, segregation, Vicksburg, Wadley family, women
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