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14 October 1864: “He will never be fit for service again, he is so wrecked.”

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Item Description: A letter from Seraphina Brooks Flowers to Miss Bell regarding her trip to visit her sick son in prison. He was imprisoned in Rock Island, Illinois. She also discusses other family news, and her plans to travel back south. … Continue reading →

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12 October 1864: “We are drawing light rashions here.”

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Item Description: A letter written by Christopher Wren Bunker to his family from prison. It describes some of the conditions at prison, as well as some illness he has suffered. He served in the Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western … Continue reading →

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7 October 1864: “Captured and are still in Yankeedom.”

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Item Description: Cornelius Dabney, a student at the University of Virginia, describes the effects of the Civil War on his family in his diary. At the time when this is written he was not at school. Item Citation: Folder 1, in the … Continue reading →

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25 September 1864: “Left the camp with an officer + ten men unable to walk”

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Item Description: From Colonel George Logan’s records. This report from one of his captains informs him of transportation trouble and new camp conditions. It also informs him of the Captains decisions. Citation: In Folder 33, in the George William Logan … Continue reading →

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26 August 1864: “To hire of negro person”

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Item Description: Receipt from the C.S.A. dated 26 August 1864. Item Citation: Folder 9, Confederate Papers, #172, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Item Transcription: [Form 19.] The Confederate States, To F.C. Lowman 1864 … Continue reading →

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17 July 1864: “If you can, and will by penning a few words, do that which may lighten the wearisome prison hours of my son”

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Item description: Letter from Seraphina Brooks Flowers to Lt. G. C. Lockwood, 17 July 1864. Flowers writes Lockwood, a federal officer, to petition to see her son who was taken prisoner. Item citation: From folder 56 of the Craig, Ferris, and … Continue reading →

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19 May 1864: “Today so far everything is quiet the skirmishers don’t even fire at each other but seem to be quite friendly, meet each other and exchange papers and have a talk over the times…”

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Item description: This letter, dated 19 May 1864, was written by Confederate soldier Lewis Warlick to his wife. In his letter, Warlick comments on the heavy fighting at Spotsylvania, Virginia. He also notes that friendly contacts were still possible between … Continue reading →

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24 December 1863: “Shall the Confederacy stand or shall it fall? That is the question…”

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Item description: A speech by Albert Gallatin Brown, Confederate senator from Mississippi, on the “State of the Country.” The speech was given in the Confederate Senate on 24 December 1863. To read the full document online, please see: https://archive.org/details/stateofcountryspbrow Item … Continue reading →

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24 November 1863: “for horses will be horses next spring if we live to see the time”

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Item Description:  Letter, 24 November 1863, in which Parker informs his parents that his horse was condemned by the Army, and asks them about the possibility of him buying another horse and keeping it with them during the winter. Parker served … Continue reading →

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18 November 1863: “he prayed for him last night as he had never prayed for his soul.”

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Item Description: Diary entry, 18 November 1863, written Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886), a tobacco planter of southwestern Virginia and north central North Carolina, Confederate soldier, and commission merchant. The entry discusses movements of the Confederate army, third party reminiscences of the … Continue reading →

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