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Tag Archives: troops
27 February 1865: “numerous desertions are now occurring among the troops from our State and many of them are going to the enemy.”
Item Description: Letter dated 27 February 1865 signed by the officers of the North Carolina Troops. It brings up concerns about desertions and low morale among members of the army. Item Citation: Folder 212, William A. Graham Papers, #00285, Southern Historical Collection, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Army, Confederate Army, desertions, letter to the senate, North Carolina, troops
Comments Off on 27 February 1865: “numerous desertions are now occurring among the troops from our State and many of them are going to the enemy.”
16th September 1864: “They report the Lincoln officers in the army as very uneasy.”
Item Description: An article under “War News” from the Weekly Standard in Raleigh, NC describes news of the presidential election in the north, as well as troop movement. Citation: Weekly standard. (Raleigh, N.C.), 16 Nov. 1864. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Civil War, election, Raleigh, troops, weekly standard
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12 July 1864: “You must bear in mind that in all our marching now we are in the enemy’s Country, and may meet with an attack at any moment.”
Item Description: Jonathan Lewis Whitaker writing to his wife, Julia, about the USCT regiment marching from Beaufort, through Hilton Head, to Charleston. Details about the troops marching, rations, some fighting w/ Confederate troops. Item Citation: Letter dated 12 July 1864, in … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Beaufort, Charleston, Charlotte, Civil War, conditions, troops
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20 October 1862: “FRIENDS, TO THE RESCUE!!”
Item description: This broadside, which includes appeals from Governor Zebulon B. Vance, Surgeon General Edward Warren, and Assistant Quartermaster James Sloan, announces the State of North Carolina’s dire need of donations from private citizens to help clothe and shoe its … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged broadsides, clothing, donations, economic conditions, Edward Warren, food, food shortage, Governor Zebulon Vance, James Sloan, North Carolina Troops, soldier conditions, speculation, supplies, troop assistance, troops
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28 February 1862: “I am often glad I am not married, but methinks there is some thing very fine in having a brave husband to fight in the glorious battles, and come home and tell about them by the fireside.”
Item description: Letter to Ellen Richardson in Ololona, Miss., from her cousin Laura Norwood in Lenoir, N.C. [Transcription available below images.] Item citation: In the Chiliab Smith Howe Papers #3092, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Fort Donnelson, Lenoir, marriage, North Carolina, religion, southern women, troops, women
Comments Off on 28 February 1862: “I am often glad I am not married, but methinks there is some thing very fine in having a brave husband to fight in the glorious battles, and come home and tell about them by the fireside.”
10 February 1862: “An Ordinance Granting Bounty To Certain North-Carolina Volunteers”
Item description: This ordinance, passed by North Carolina’s Secession Convention, called on state government to pay those volunteer soldiers to whom bounty pay was due–regardless of how they entered military service. [Continue reading ordinances passed by this Convention] Item citation: … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged bounty pay, North Carolina, ordinances, pay, Secession Convention, soldier conditions, troops, volunteer troops
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3 December 1861: “he having received a Furlough from the 3rd day of Dec to the 1st day of January at which period he will rejoin his company at /near Centreville or wherever it is they may be or be considered a deserter”
Image description: Application for Furlough for H.E. Duncan, from Captain Boykin’s Independent Mounted Company of Rangers, 3 December 1861. Item citation: From the Boykin Family Papers, #78, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Item … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Boykin's Rangers, illness, North Carolina, South Carolina, troops
Comments Off on 3 December 1861: “he having received a Furlough from the 3rd day of Dec to the 1st day of January at which period he will rejoin his company at /near Centreville or wherever it is they may be or be considered a deserter”
22 August 1861:”Many seem to think it not unlikely that we will be summoned ere winter to do our knightly [d__?] on the coast of our own beloved State. If so, & the enemy come, I feel that we will give them a blow which will imprint the name of Carolina as deeply in the Yankee heart as that of Calais was in Bloody Mary’s.”
Item description: Here Hutson writes to his family about receiving goods from home, the health of the soldiers in the camp, and one man’s attempt to join their company. Item citation: From folder 3 of the Charles Woodward Hutson Papers, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged South Carolina, troops
Comments Off on 22 August 1861:”Many seem to think it not unlikely that we will be summoned ere winter to do our knightly [d__?] on the coast of our own beloved State. If so, & the enemy come, I feel that we will give them a blow which will imprint the name of Carolina as deeply in the Yankee heart as that of Calais was in Bloody Mary’s.”
20 August 1861:”The articles brought were my new hat…two beautiful palmetto cockades, a letter from Marion, a false lemon made of wax, sent me by that wicked little elf, the coquettish Miss Minnie, & a very saucy letter from the same unreverential source.”
Item description: This is a letter from 10 August 1861, from Charles Woodward Hutson to his sister, discussing life in camp as part of the Hampton’s Legion South Carolina Infantry. Charles Woodward Hutson (1840-1936) grew up on plantations in Beaufort District, … Continue reading
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Tagged South Carolina, troops
Comments Off on 20 August 1861:”The articles brought were my new hat…two beautiful palmetto cockades, a letter from Marion, a false lemon made of wax, sent me by that wicked little elf, the coquettish Miss Minnie, & a very saucy letter from the same unreverential source.”
15 August 1861: “Gen Magruder…carried about 7 or 8 thousand soldiers the other day from this place…down to Hampton and burned the entire place…”
Item Description: This letter, dated 15 August 1861, is from Francis W. Bird in Yorktown, Virginia to his sister, discussing sickness in his camp as well as the burning of Hampton, Va. Bird enlisted in the Confederate Army on 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Battle of Big Bethel, Bethel Regiment, Francis W. Bird, North Carolina, Robert Winston, troops, Virginia, Yorktown
Comments Off on 15 August 1861: “Gen Magruder…carried about 7 or 8 thousand soldiers the other day from this place…down to Hampton and burned the entire place…”