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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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18 May 1864: “Our Indian allies, under Stand Watie and others, who have never wavered in the darkest hours of our struggle, who have sacrificed their all to the great cause of Southern liberty, will ever be gratefully remembered…”
Item description: The Hillsborough Recorder of 18 May 1864 included this news item from the Richmond Enquirer of 5 May 1864. The excerpts are from letters describing a battle between General Stand Watie and the 1st Indian Brigade of the … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged American Indian soldiers, Arkansas, Boggy Depot, Camp Longstreet, First Indian Brigade, Fort Smith, Indian brigade, John Milton Thayer, Little Rock, Native Americans, newspapers, Richmond Enquirer, Stand Watie, The Hillsborough Recorder, Western Theater
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5 April 1864: “Capt. McCloskey reports the “Falls City” ready for sinking this afternoon…”
Item description: Report, dated 5 April 1864, sent by General Richard Taylor to his superior General Edmund Kirby Smith. The report details Confederate troop strength at this point in the Red River Campaign. [Item transcription available below images.] Item citation: From folder … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Edmund Kirby-Smith, Louisiana, Red River Campaign, reports, Richard Taylor, Western Theater
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6 May 1863: “List of Negroes working on the fortifications at Fort Pemberton”
Item description: “List of Negroes working on the fortifications at Fort Pemberton,” dated 6 May 1863. Fort Pemberton was a Confederate fortification constructed on a narrow strip of land between the Tallahatchie and Yazoo Rivers, near Greenwood, Mississippi. Item citation: From … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Fort Pemberton, fortifications, Mississippi, slave labor, slavery, Western Theater
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4 May 1862: “…he knew still less how to surrender a city filled with women and children and unarmed citizens; the city was at their mercy…”
Item description: Entry, dated 4 May 1862, from the diary of Sarah Wadley. More about Sarah Lois Wadley: Sarah Lois Wadley was born in 1844 in New Hampshire, the daughter of railroad superintendent William Morrill Wadley (1813-1882) and Rebecca Barnard … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Capture of New Orleans, diaries, Louisiana, New Orleans, Sarah Wadley, Western Theater, women
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24 April 1862: “the report is that some of the gun boats have passed the forts, & that there is every probability that the Federals or rather Lincolnites will be able to get up to the city.”
Item description: Letter, dated 24 April 1862, from Frances Devereux Polk to her husband Leonidas Polk, major general in the Army of Mississippi, about the imminent capture of the city of New Orleans. The letter comes a few weeks after … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Capture of New Orleans, David G. Farragut, Frances Devereux Polk, Leonidas Polk, Louisiana, Mississippi River, New Orleans, University of the South, Western Theater
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