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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.”
- fletches on 3 February 1864: “You will consider yourself under arrest …”
- Liz Bezera on 3 February 1864: “You will consider yourself under arrest …”
- 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 February 1864: “He has come to take Newberne and he has sent you down here to take this camp and cart off supplies and he expects you will do it.”
Item description: Entry, dated 12 February 1864, in the diary of John L. Swain. In it he writes about the assembly of Confederate troops under General James G. Martin in Eastern North Carolina with the objective of recapturing cities under … Continue reading →
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Tagged diaries, General Robert E. Lee, John L. Swain, New Bern, Newport Barracks, North Carolina
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