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- Liz Bezera on 3 July 1864: “[...]we have fixed up our quarters with bowers, etc – very nice – I built me a spring bed two hickory poles – lay barrel staves on them – tack them down – and I have as good a bed as I want.”
- fletches on 24 June 1864: “…and as to taking off one’s shoes, that’s not to be dreamed of.”
- Todd Kesselring on 24 June 1864: “…and as to taking off one’s shoes, that’s not to be dreamed of.”
- Jason Tomberlin on 3 June 1864: “a circumstance which can hardly be looked upon as a positive loss . . .”
- Liz Bezera on 3 June 1864: “a circumstance which can hardly be looked upon as a positive loss . . .”
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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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