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Tag Archives: Kinston
18 December 1864: “I want to fight the Yankees with our gun boat but they is aferd to come in shooting distance”
Item Description: Letter from Jerome Riggins to Martin Moser about conditions near Kinston NC, including Union reluctance to engage with the Confederate “gun boat.” The boat referred to is likely the CSS Neuse, which sunk in March 1865 when the crew … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged boats, C.S.S. Nuese, Civil War, Jerome Riggins, Kinston, Martin Moser, Navy, North Carolina, Tarrboro
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6 November 1864: “We wold blo it up before thay shood have it.”
Item Description: Letter from Jerome Rigins, a sailor in the Confederate Navy, to Martin Moser. He discusses how Union troops have taken Plymouth and will likely take Kinston. If Kinston were to fall, they would destroy their ship (believed to … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Confederate Navy, Kinston, Martin Moser Papers, North Carolina
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26 May 1863: “About five or six miles from Kinston our Brigade formed line of battle and commenced advan-cing on the Yankees…”
Item description: Letter, dated 26 May 1863, from James A. Graham to his mother. He discusses troop movements and skirmishes with Union troops in the coastal North Carolina area around Kinston and New Bern. Item citation: from folder 2 in … Continue reading
17 March 1863: “I have a frail good for nothing body, but I have more heart for the work than some of these big fellows…”
Item description: Letter, 17 March 1863, from D.H. Hill to James Longstreet, Goldsboro, N.C., requesting Ransom’s brigade or another be ordered to Goldsboro to help fortify Kinston, N.C., while other brigades moved on Greenville, N.C. Item citation: From the D. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged D.H. Hill, General James Longstreet, Goldsboro, Kinston, North Carolina, Washington (N.C)
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8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
Item description: Letter, 8 March 1863, to Edwin Keiger in Kinston, N.C., from Joseph Boles in Raleigh, N.C.The letter describes the inflated prices for food, horses, and other goods during the Civil War. Included is discussion of why Boles was not … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Edwin Keiger, food, horses, Joseph Boles, Kinston, North Carolina, prices
Comments Off on 8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
14 December 1862: Program for a reunion of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, held on 14 December 1887 in Boston, Mass.
Item description: Program for a reunion of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, held on 14 December 1887 in Boston, Mass., on the 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Kinston (N.C.) (fought on 14 December 1862). Item citation: “Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Kinston, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 1887, 45th Massachusetts Regiment, Battle of Kinston, Kinston, Massachusetts, North Carolina, reunions, veterans
Comments Off on 14 December 1862: Program for a reunion of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, held on 14 December 1887 in Boston, Mass.
17 November 1862: “No Sentimental Journey”
Item Description: “No Sentimental Journey,” The New York Herald, 17 November 1862, page 1, column 3. Item Note: The writer refers to Kinston, N.C. as “Kingston.” Transcription: INTERESTING FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Adventures of One of Our Correspondents. NO SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY. … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged alcohol, clothing, contrabands, corn, cotton, foreign intervention, Goldsboro, Governor Zebulon Vance, Kinston, North Carolina, pork, salt, slaves, snuff, southern women, The New York Herald, tobacco, uniforms
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30 March 1862: “My unwavering confidence has only been in the final result, not in the intermediate steps which will lead to it. We may have yet enough of the same sort to endure to bring us to the verge of the precipice…”
Item description: Letter from Walter Waightstill Lenoir, written to one of his brothers. Item citation: In the Lenoir Family Papers #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Five miles East of Kinston, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp life, Confederate Army, Confederate camp, Kinston, North Carolina, supplies
Comments Off on 30 March 1862: “My unwavering confidence has only been in the final result, not in the intermediate steps which will lead to it. We may have yet enough of the same sort to endure to bring us to the verge of the precipice…”