Record #:

9058

Author(s):

Malone, Mildred W.

Abstract:

This article presents a letter from W.H. Pleasants, Mayor of Louisburg at the end of the Civil War, to General W.T. Sherman. Two men, Ellis Malone and Jones Fuller, were selected by the Louisburg Board of Commissioners to go to Raleigh and deliver the letter. They received Sherman's reply which is also printed in this article.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 11, Apr 1979, p20

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate--Louisburg