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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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1 June 1861: “There was a large meeting held in the Church…on account of the Orange Light Infantry Co. going to leave Chapel Hill…”
Item description: Minutes, 1 June 1861, of the University Baptist Church of Chapel Hill, N.C., with a note on the departure of the Orange Light Infantry Brigade from Chapel Hill. Item citation: From Volume 1 in the University Baptist Church … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapel Hill, meeting minutes, North Carolina, Orange Light Infantry Brigade, University Baptist Church
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8 May 1861: Edmund Walter Jones letter “delighted with my life as a soldier”
Item description: This letter from J.T. Jones to his father Edmund W. Jones (written while J.T. was encamped at Ellis Camp, Raleigh, N.C.), describes mobilization efforts on the home front in Orange County, North Carolina, as well as the early … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund W. Jones, J.T. Jones, mobilization, North Carolina, Orange County, Orange Light Infantry Brigade, Raleigh
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20 April 1861: “This is probably the first flag raised, on which N. Carolina has been numbered with the seceding states.”
Item description: Letter, Edward Hall Armstrong to Thomas G. Armstrong, Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 April 1861. Edward Hall Armstrong, of Wilmington, N.C., was a student at the University of North Carolina from 1858 to 1861. On 20 April 1861, he … Continue reading