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Tag Archives: North Carolina
27 November 1864: “This extra issue of vegetable coming at this particular time may lead the troops to believe that it was made in consequence of the late mutiny…”
Item Description: Letter, dated 27 November 1864, from Maj. R.S. Gage (commissary officer in Clingman’s Brigade) to Col. Hector McKeithan. In the letter, Gage explains that he has distributed extra vegetables (“one and a half pounds of turnips and about … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged clingman's brigade, commissary, food, Hector McKeithan, North Carolina, R.S. Gage, T. L. Clingman, vegetables
Comments Off on 27 November 1864: “This extra issue of vegetable coming at this particular time may lead the troops to believe that it was made in consequence of the late mutiny…”
22 November 1864: “The yankees passed last week, but did not trouble anything.”
Item Description: A letter from Mary Forbes to Julia Joyner. Mrs. Joyner directed affairs on the family plantation while her husband and son’s were in the war. Mary inquires after acquaintances and family members in this letter and mentions an encounter with … Continue reading
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Tagged Joyner Family Papers, North Carolina, plantation owner
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12 November 1864: “The Yankees is not doing at Plymouth as yet only taking Brandy and getting drunk”
Item Description: Letter written by John Blekepon to William S. Pettigrew in response to Pettigrew’s letter on November 5th. In the letter he discusses sending Pettigrew’s belongings, Union activity in Plymouth, NC, and Pettigrew’s personal health. Item Citation: Folder 270 … Continue reading
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Tagged North Carolina, Pettigrew family, Plymouth, Tarboro
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6 November 1864: “We wold blo it up before thay shood have it.”
Item Description: Letter from Jerome Rigins, a sailor in the Confederate Navy, to Martin Moser. He discusses how Union troops have taken Plymouth and will likely take Kinston. If Kinston were to fall, they would destroy their ship (believed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Confederate Navy, Kinston, Martin Moser Papers, North Carolina
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31 October 1864: “After Ram had been sunk.”
Item Description: A photograph of a sketch of the naval attack at Plymouth, N.C. on 31 October 1864. Inscription on the back describes the moment the sketch depicts. Item Citation: From Unit 3, in the Confederate Papers #172, Southern Historical Collection, The … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Naval attack, Navy, North Carolina, Plymouth
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21 September 1864: “My sleeping quarters will not be quite as comfortable”
Item Description: James Gifford writes to his parents about his journey home to them in New Bedford, Massachusetts . He was a Naval officer stationed off the coast of North Carolina. Citation: Folder 3, in the James Gifford Papers #4493-z, Southern … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, James Gifford, naval officers, Navy, New York, North Carolina
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18 September 1864: “I believe a great many have left our Country for the North lately. I heard forty left Goldsboro last week.”
Item description: Letter, dated 18 September 1864, from Kate Chapman to Mary Ferrand Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. Item citation: From folder 36 in the John Steele Henderson Papers, #327, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alamance, Henderson family, home front, John Steele Henderson, Kate Chapman, North Carolina, Salisbury, women
Comments Off on 18 September 1864: “I believe a great many have left our Country for the North lately. I heard forty left Goldsboro last week.”
1 September 1864: “We have lots of fun along the lines.”
Item Description: Letter, 1 September 1864, from Alfred N. Proffit, private in Company D, 18th Regiment N.C. Troops to his sister and cousin. Item Citation: From folder 4 in the Proffit Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops, Alfred N. Proffit, food, North Carolina, Petersburg, Proffit family, Wilkes County
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2 June 1864: “ALL PASSES without exception, that have been given to persons to visit the Banks and fish in the Sounds, are hereby revoked.”
Item description: These are notices that appeared on 2 June 1864 in The Daily Journal of Wilmington, North Carolina. The first notice deals with the passenger lists of ships running the Union blockade, and the second with the revocation of … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged A. Vanderhorst, blockade, blockade running, boarding, coastal areas, coastal defenses, fishing, General William Whiting, headquarters, home front, homefront, James H. Hill, Louis Hebert, naval operations, newspapers, North Carolina, notices, passenger lists, passes, passport, passports, sounds, The Daily Journal, Virginia, William H. C. Whiting, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal, Wilmington (NC)
Comments Off on 2 June 1864: “ALL PASSES without exception, that have been given to persons to visit the Banks and fish in the Sounds, are hereby revoked.”