18 August 1863: “organizing the students at the University into a company to be drilled and called out in case of emergency to resist raids, &c.”

Posted on 18 Aug ’13 by
Item description:  Letter, 18 August 1863, from Adjutant General Daniel Fowle to Professor of Chemistry John Kimberly stating that Governor Zebulon Vance had suggested mobilizing a contingent of University of North Carolina students for defense of the home-front.
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Item citation: From folder 42 in the John Kimberly Papers #398, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item transcription:

Executive Department, North-Carolina,

Adjutant General’s Office,

Raleigh, August 18th, 1863,

Prof. John Kimberly,

Sir: His excellency the Governor has suggested to me the propriety of organizing the students at the University into a company to be drilled and called on in case of emergency to resist raids, etc. You have been named as a proper person to take the matter in hand.  Will you be pleased to communicate with me upon the subject? Those over 18 will be enrolled under the law. Those under that age will be accepted as above with the consent of their parents.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,

Daniel Fowle

Adjutant General

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One Response to 18 August 1863: “organizing the students at the University into a company to be drilled and called out in case of emergency to resist raids, &c.”

  1. Liz Bezera says:
    18 Aug ’13 at 4:10 pm

    Will be accepted as above with the consent of their parents.