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Tag Archives: mobilization
18 August 1863: “organizing the students at the University into a company to be drilled and called out in case of emergency to resist raids, &c.”
Item description: Letter, 18 August 1863, from Adjutant General Daniel Fowle to Professor of Chemistry John Kimberly stating that Governor Zebulon Vance had suggested mobilizing a contingent of University of North Carolina students for defense of the home-front. [transcription available below image] … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Fowle, Governor Zebulon Vance, homefront, John Kimberly, mobilization
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29 December 1862: ” it has been deemed expedient to endeavor to bring about a convention of all the Iron Masters of the South…”
Item description: Circular published by J.R. Anderson & Co., dated 29 December 1862, calling on Southern industrialists to mobilize the region’s iron mills and blast furnaces. [Transcription available below image. Image and transcription courtesy of DocSouth.] Item citation: From the Duff Green … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged circulars, industrialization, iron mills, iron works, J.R. Anderson & Co., mobilization
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8 July 1861: ” As President Davis will not receive any more 12 month Volunteers our company must either volunteer for the war or be disbanded on the 20th of August.”
Item description: Letter, 8 July 1861, from James A. Graham (1841-1909) to his father William A. Graham, a former United States senator and governor of North Carolina. In this letter, James Graham writes to get his father’s blessing to continue … Continue reading
2 July 1861: “It looks like making a mashup of my business here, but it wont do to look back now.”
Item description: Letter, 2 July 1861, from Thomas Isaac Lenoir to Walter Waightstill Lenoir about raising a volunteer company. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From folder 145 of the Lenoir Family Papers #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, … Continue reading
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Tagged Lenoir family, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir, mobilization, Thomas Isaac Lenoir, Walter Waightstill Lenoir
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26 June 1861: “In reply to the resolution of the Convention, asking the Military Board to report on this day, at 10 o’clock, A.M., the number of State troops…”
Item description: Opening paragraphs of a report submitted to the Secession Convention by the Military Board of North Carolina. The document contains information on military appointees and other schedules related to the state’s attempt to raise troops. Item transcription: STATE … Continue reading
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Tagged Military Board, mobilization, North Carolina, Secession Convention, troop mobilization, troops
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4 June 1861: “Authority be given to purchase the three (3) boats.”
Item description: Telegram from Walter Gwynn, Norfolk, Va., to North Carolina Gov. John W. Ellis asking Ellis to authorize the purchase of three warships. Item citation: From folder 11 of the John Willis Ellis Papers, #242, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederate Navy, John W. Ellis, Kahukee, mobilization, Norfolk, North Carolina, ships, steamers, Walter Gwynn
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31 May 1861: “[I] was really gratified to see the promptitude with which the convention acted. We are now where we ought to have been months since.”
Item description: Charles Pettigrew writes to his brother, William Pettigrew, a delegate at the Secession Convention in Raleigh, N.C., commenting on party politics and military mobilization in the state. Item citation: From folder 242 of the Pettigrew Family Papers #592, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Pettigrew, journalism, mobilization, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, Secession Convention, W.W. Holden, William Pettigrew
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28 May 1861: “…I send herewith a list of the companies tendered from each county, and the numbers of men.”
Item description: Portions of a report submitted to the Secession Convention by the governor and adjutant general of North Carolina. Item citation: From “The Military of the State.” [Raleigh, N.C.] : Syme & Hall, [1861], VC342.2 1861d v. 1, from … Continue reading
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Tagged adjutant general, John W. Ellis, mobilization, North Carolina, secession, Secession Convention, troop mobilization, troops, volunteer troops
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