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Tag Archives: Unionism
29 July 1863: “If Sutch men as yo are is christians of heaven i want to know who is the hippocrits of hell”
Item Description: Letter, dated 29 July 1863, from Wilse Dial, James Dial, and Calvin Dial, three Unionists, probably in the mountains of North Carolina or Tennessee, addressed to Capt. Quill Hunter, possibly a Confederate conscription officer, threatening retaliation against attempts … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Calvin Dial, death threats, desertion, drawings, James Dial, Unionism, United States Regulars, Wilse Dial
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19 November 1861: “the result of these elections shows an improved condition among our people for we are to remember that half of the voting population of our country is absent in their country’s defence…”
Item description: Letter, 19 November 1861, from Hardy Hardison, Scuppernong, N.C., to William S. Pettigrew, Raleigh, N.C. In the letter, Hardison, a local physician, alludes to the controversy surrounding the election of militia officers in Washington County in late 1861. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged commissions, election of officers, Hardy Hardison, local militia, militia elections, militias, North Carolina, Scuppernong, Union-sympathizers, Unionism, Washington County, William Pettigrew
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11 November 1861: “It requires infinitely more courage to be a friend of the Union in North Carolina than here…”
Item description: A broadside, printed in New York and dated 11 November 1861, asking for donations of supplies or contributions of money to be gathered in support of “those loyal inhabitants of the coast of North Carolina who have been … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, coastal areas, Cooper Institute, donations, Hatteras, Hatteras Island, New York, North Carolina, Union occupation, Unionism
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15 May 1861: “We are all one for our flag, since seven thousand cowards cannonaded seventy half-starved men for thirty six hours to strike it down.”
Item description: George W. Bethune, New York, N.Y., to Mary B. Blackford, Lynchburg, Va., describing the Northern response to Ft. Sumter; why the North must fight to save the Union. Item citation: From folder 79 in the Blackford Family Papers … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackford Family, Fort Sumter, George W. Bethune, New York, Unionism
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4 May 1861: “The secession movement everywhere scorns all legal forms, & with revolutionary violence siezes on all the national property it can lay its hands on.”
Item description: W. Allen Johnson, New York, to William M. Blackford. Trip from Maryland to New York; problem of getting out of the South; troops and military preparations in New York; favorable description of Lincoln by a man from Illinois; … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Blackford Family, New York, secession, Unionism
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