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26 August 1864: “To hire of negro person”

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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24 August 1864: “I feel somewhat protected in our city from the Rebels”

Item Description: Letter dated 24 August 1864 concerning leaving their home in Baltimore. Item Citation: Folder 10, Confederate Papers, #172, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item Transcription: Balt. Aug 24, 1864 My dear … Continue reading

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21 August 1864: “Yet I have puzzled, and planned, and worried, till my head has grown sick”

Item Description: Letter from Annie to her “Sister-Cousin” Mary. She writes sorrowfully of her difficulties in teaching at Kentucky, where it appears she has recently moved. Item Citation: Folder 2, Confederate Papers, #172, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of … Continue reading

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