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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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27 April 1861: “For the last five or six days eight or ten have left per day and many more are only waiting to receive money– to leave”
Item description: A petition by students to University of North Carolina Board of Trustees on behalf of the first-year, sophomore, and junior classes requesting the suspension of college duties so that students can prepare for war. Transcription of item: http://docsouth.unc.edu/true/mss06-08/mss06-08.html … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Hill Price, Robert Bruce Peebles, students, UNC Board of Trustees, Willoughby F. Avery
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