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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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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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