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Tag Archives: Georgia
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
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Annie Maney, Atlanta, Bettie Kimberly, Chapel Hill, children, Georgia, home front, Kimberly family, North Carolina, women
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4 January 1863: “For such a servant, I would gladly give $2500.”
Item description: Letter, 4 January 1863, from Jeremy Francis Gilmer to his wife Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer. More about Jeremy Francis Gilmer: Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in Guilford County, N.C., on 23 February 1818. He entered the United States … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Georgia, Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Louisa Fredericka Alexander Gilmer, Savannah, servants, slavery, slaves
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19 July 1862: “Any Cotton Among us Belonging to Traitors!”
Item description: Newspaper article, “Any Cotton Among us Belonging to Traitors!,” as re-published in the 19 July 1862 issue of the Wilmington Daily Journal. The article was originally published in the Atlanta Confederacy newspaper. Item citation: “Any Cotton Among us … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Atlanta, Atlanta Confederacy, cotton, Georgia, newspapers, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
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20 November 1861: Raising the Black Flag, “Such an event must fill every thoughtful mind with the gloomiest forebodings.”
Item description: newspaper article, “The Black Flag,” Weekly Standard (Raleigh), 20 November 1861, page 1, column 4. Item transcription: The Black Flag. In modern times, the black flag has never been raised, except as the ensign of the pirate—the heartless … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, black flag, Georgia, newspapers, prisoners-of-war, South Carolina
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15 November 1861: ” “Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh to bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire…”
Item description: God in the War. A Sermon Delivered before the Legislature of Georgia, in the Capitol at Milledgeville, on Friday, November 15, 1861, Being a Day Set apart for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, by his Excellency the President of … Continue reading
Posted in Rare Book Collection
Tagged day of fasting and prayer, Georgia, Henry H. Tucker, Milledgeville, ministers, religion, religious beliefs, sermons
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24 August 1861: “…authorized to appoint an assayer at Charlotte, North Carolinia, and another at Dahlonega, in the State of Georgia, whose duty it shall be to assay and certify the fineness and value of such gold and silver…”
Item description: Act of the Confederate States of America (approved on 24 August 1861, and later published in The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America) concerning the appointment of two assayers (one in … Continue reading
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Tagged assayers, Charlotte, Dahlonega, Georgia, gold, North Carolina, Provisional Congress, silver
Comments Off on 24 August 1861: “…authorized to appoint an assayer at Charlotte, North Carolinia, and another at Dahlonega, in the State of Georgia, whose duty it shall be to assay and certify the fineness and value of such gold and silver…”