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4221
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Born in 1852, F. L. Castex, Sr., was thirteen years old when the Civil War ended. In 1932, he recorded his recollections of the war in and around Goldsboro, including seeing refugee trains passing through, being close to cannon fire, seeing General Sherman, and peddling cakes his mother made to raise money.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 12 Issue 1, May 1999,
p17-23, bibl
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7106
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Jacob Edwin Keiger left his parent's Stokes County farm and enlisted as a private in Company D of the 53rd North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. Within three years dozens of Company D's 120 men were wounded, over forty were captured and held as prisoners, twenty-one deserted, and thirty-five died, mostly from disease. Keiger and his parents exchanged over one hundred letters before his death, at 24, in Raleigh from disease in July 1863. Excerpts his letters, interspersed with narrative of the company's movements, create a picture of one soldier's life during the Civil War.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005,
p74-76, 78, 80, 82-83, il, por
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8784
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This is the second half of Lieutenant George C. Rounds' first-hand account of being in Raleigh in 1865. This part recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the end of the war. Rounds sent a message from the top of the Capitol builging announcing the end of the war. The message read P-E-A-C-E.
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10666
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Lewis, a surgeon with the 3rd Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America, recounts a strange incident that took place in a battle between Northern and Southern soldiers near South Mills in Camden County. The original of Dr. Lewis's account is in the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Virginia.
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18971
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Through historic documents, Sandbeck details life in New Bern through the eyes of two Northern soldiers stationed in the area during the Civil War.
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19029
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Scholars of nineteen century African American history face the challenges of finding first-person accounts; they therefore rely on peripheral sources such as the correspondences of Private Henry A. Clapp who was stationed in New Bern from 1862-1863. Clapp provides detailed accounts of Sylvia and Mary Jane Conner, two New Bern African American women that changed Clapp's perceptions on slavery.
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19561
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Born and raised in New York, John Newland Maffitt began a long and storied naval career with a midshipman's commission in the United States Navy in 1832. Later he servds aboard the USS Constitution and was ordered to the United States Coast Survey to chart the southern harbors of Savannah, Charleston, and Wilmington. As a transplant to the South, Maffitt takes up the illicit activity of razing Union vessels during the Civil War and an account of his escapades and prizes won are outlined in this article.
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20188
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This collection of letters of Ruffin Barnes of Wilson County, North Carolina throws light on the movement of Company C, Forty-Third North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954,
p75-99
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20220
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Stephen Chaulker Bartlett was the acting surgeon onboard the U.S.S. LENAPPE. Letters written by Bartlett from the LENAPEE, one of the principal vessel in the attack on Wilmington, January-February 1865, give a glimpse of the ordinary living conditions in the lower Cape Fear in 1865, contraband, refugees, and a new era in North Carolina and US history.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 33 Issue 1, Jan 1956,
p66-92, por, f
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20350
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After torpedoes plowed through Mobile Bay in 1864, the North and South became riveted on the last remaining port open to the Confederacy in Wilmington. In an attempt to smash Fort Fisher, guardian of the Cape Fear River approach to Wilmington, Rear Adm. David D. Porter was recalled from the interior to the Atlantic coast to lead the U.S. Navy in land-sea assaults on this last stronghold, and lead the final significant naval action of the American Civil War. This article displays the letters of Porter, as he discusses the preparation of attacks on Fort Fisher, the importance of Wilmington, supply problems, and administrative confusion.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 35 Issue 4, Oct 1958,
p461-475, f
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20466
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Published accounts of prison life during the Civil War are often written long after the close of hostilities, making the accusations hard to accept without reservation. But one account, written by Francis Atherton Boyle from Plymouth during his imprisonment at Fort Delaware provides a look at how prisoners dealt with hardship of imprisonment.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 1, Jan 1962,
p58-84, f
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20660
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This is the first of a two-part article detailing the military experiences of Union soldier and Bethlehem, PA native James A. Peifer drawn primarily from the author's analysis of a collection of letters written by Peifer to his sister Mary. Excerpts from the letters are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 32 Issue 3, July 1955,
p385-409, f
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20680
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This is the conclusion of a two-part article detailing the military experiences of Union soldier and Bethlehem, PA native James A. Peifer drawn primarily from the author's analysis of a collection of letters written by Peifer to his sister Mary. Excerpts from the letters are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 32 Issue 4, Oct 1955,
p544-, f
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20693
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This is a reprint of Civil War letters written by Moravian volunteer soldier and Salem native, Henry W. Barrow. Letters, written from various camps in 1861, 1864 and 1865, give intimate glimpses of personal experiences during the war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 34 Issue 1, Jan 1957,
p68-85, f
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20811
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This is a reprint of letters written by Union Sargent Edward Nicholas Boots, 101st Pennsylvania Regiment, while posted in New Bern and Plymouth, North Carolina as well as one letter from prison at Andersonville, Georgia in 1863 and 1864. The author's introduction provides biographical information on Boots, as well as details of his war and combat experience and on his imprisonment and eventual death at Andersonville.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 36 Issue 2, April 1959,
p205-223, f
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