Item Description: Diary entry, dated 31 August 1864, written by John Houston Bills. Bills was a Tennessee planter who was active in the Democratic Party, the Freemasons, a temperance society, and was a friend of President James K. Polk.
Diary entry, dated 23 May 1864, written by Louis Leon, a Confederate soldier in the North Carolina Infantry. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/index.php/tag/diaries/#sthash.pfwUXJ13.dpuf
Diary entry, dated 23 May 1864, written by Louis Leon, a Confederate soldier in the North Carolina Infantry. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/index.php/tag/diaries/#sthash.pfwUXJ13.dpuf
Item Citation: From the John Houston Bills Papers, #02245, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Letter dated 23 July 1864, in the Andrew Lucas Hunt Papers, #3225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/#sthash.IUiO13qb.dpuf
Letter dated 23 July 1864, in the Andrew Lucas Hunt Papers, #3225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/#sthash.IUiO13qb.dpuf
Letter dated 23 July 1864, in the Andrew Lucas Hunt Papers, #3225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/#sthash.IUiO13qb.dpuf
Letter dated 23 July 1864, in the Andrew Lucas Hunt Papers, #3225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/#sthash.IUiO13qb.dpuf
Letter dated 23 July 1864, in the Andrew Lucas Hunt Papers, #3225, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. – See more at: https://web.lib.unc.edu/civilwar/#sthash.IUiO13qb.dpuf
Item Transcription:
Wednesday, 31.
Getting up wood for winter,
My woman Angelina gave the little boy Wilson a most unmerciful thrashing. I forbid her interference with him again. She became so boisterous & insulting I am forced to correct her for the first time,
Jack break his wagon tongue out I spent the evening putting it in.