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Tag Archives: women
12 August 1863: “…no one seems to think of marriage, the times being too hard.”
Item description: Letter, dated 12 August 1863, from Lafayette McLaws to his wife. In this letter he discusses the various talents of their children and the family on whose farm his division is camped. Item citation: From folder 8, Lafayette … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged children, Lafayette McLaws, marriage, Robert E. Lee, women
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24 July 1863: “…Nat Went in to the Battle in Pennsylvania and he supposed he was killed he had not bin herd since…”
Item description: Letter, dated 24 July 1863, from Sally A. Bouldin to her “dear sister” Sally Hundley, reporting that her husband Nat was missing and presumed to have been killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. Item citation: From folder 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Franklin County (V.A.), Gettysburg Campaign, grief, homefront, John Hundley, Lucinda Hundley, Sally Bauldin, Sally Hundley, whooping cough, women
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12 June 1863: “we have been living entirely on credit, & obliged to remove one daughter from school.”
Item description: Letter, 12 June 1863, from Mary E. Bell to William S. Pettigrew. In the letter, Bell describes her family’s misfortunes and asks for monetary aid from Pettigrew so that she may pay for her daughter’s school fees to … Continue reading
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Tagged displacement, Enfield, home front, Mary E. Bell, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, Plymouth, refuge, Salem, Salem College, schools, William S. Pettigrew, women
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22 May 1863: “Kate thinks I had better get the grey dress you speak of – but I reckon I had better try and do without it and get a homespun next winter”
Item description: Letter, 22 May 1863, believed to be from Catherine “Cattie” Kennedy DeRosset (1830-1894) to her step-mother, Catherine DeRosset Kennedy (1800-1889). Item Citation: From folder 57 in the DeRosset Family Papers #214, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Kennedy DeRosset, Chapel Hill, clothes, DeRosset family, North Carolina, women
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24 March 1863: “To-day the lines have been open, and the women of the suburbs have been thronging into town to buy a little sugar, coffee, snuff, &c., especially snuff.”
Item description: Published letter, dated 24 March 1863, written by Corporal Zenas T. Haines, Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The letter is an excerpt from Haines’ account, Letters from the Forty-Fourth Regiment M.V.M.: A Record of the Experience of a Nine … Continue reading
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Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, African Americans, banjo, gardening, Massachusetts, music, North Carolina, occupied territory, published letters, Union occupation, Washington (N.C), women, Zenas T. Haines
Comments Off on 24 March 1863: “To-day the lines have been open, and the women of the suburbs have been thronging into town to buy a little sugar, coffee, snuff, &c., especially snuff.”
18 January 1863: “I made twelve garments last week and worked sixty-two button holes and sewed on as many buttons. Can you equal that?”
Item description: Letter, 18 January 1863, from Bettie Maney Kimberly, Chapel Hill, N.C., to her sister, Annie Maney Schon, Atlanta, Ga. Item citation: From the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Maney, Atlanta, Bettie Kimberly, Chapel Hill, children, Georgia, home front, Kimberly family, North Carolina, women
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2 January 1863: “…the ladies were under a guard of Federal Soldiers haing spent the night in Jail and part of the time in a Criminals Cell!!
Item Description: Rev. Overton Bernard recounts the changing social conditions brought about by Union occupation and notions of emancipation. A white slave owner’s son, wife, and his wife’s friends were briefly imprisoned after an enslaved or servant woman was slapped for her … Continue reading
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Tagged Emancipation Proclamation, Norfolk, Rev. Overton Bernard, Union occupation, women
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26 December 1862: “he was sitting in the door playing the fiddle and aunt Dilsy was dancing fit to kill herself! It was sunday evening at that.”
Item description: Letter, 26 December 1862, from Mary (Mame) Faucette (1842-1896) to her Aunt Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garrett Lenoir (1844-1880). [Transcription available below images] Item citation: From the Lenoir Family Papers, #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
30 November 1862: “she was on the eve of starting for N. Orleans, said Butler would allow ladies to go in and out now, and that a great many are going down to attend to their husband’s business.”
Item description: Entry, 30 November 1862, from the diary of Sarah Lois 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 Everingham … Continue reading
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Tagged diaries, General Benjamin Franklin Butler, home front, New Orleans, reading, Sarah Lois Wadley, women
Comments Off on 30 November 1862: “she was on the eve of starting for N. Orleans, said Butler would allow ladies to go in and out now, and that a great many are going down to attend to their husband’s business.”