Record #:

19895

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This article is another installment in a series focusing on correspondence between North Carolinians and national politicians during the tumultuous time of Reconstruction. These letters were sent to Carl Benjamin Franklin Butler, a member of the United States house of Representatives. The distinction of these papers is typical correspondence are not from the State's political leaders but rather the common citizen. Letters cover a period from January 1865 to April 1866. Â

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Oct 1942, p380-403, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Reconstruction (1865-1877)--North Carolina; Politics--North Carolina; Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

Record #:

20039

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of letters from the Edward McPherson manuscript collection held at the Library of Congress. As detailed in the introduction, the letters are part of the papers of congressman and fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination, Thaddeus Stevens. The letters reprinted here were written by residents of North Carolina deal with social, political, and military issues of the Reconstruction period. This first installment includes correspondence written between December 13, 1865 and February 15, 1868 by William E. Bond, J.H. Rea, C.F. Granger, J.W. Ragland, John Robinson, P.M. Goldsboro, Joseph B. Mcmurry, Charles Goddard, S.W. Laidler, Martin Roberts, John Robinson, P.M. and A.H. Jones, Jacob T. Brown, W.D. Harrison, and John C. Smith.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 2, April 1941, p171-195, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters

Record #:

20045

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to John Sherman, a Congressman and Senator from Ohio who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hays and Secretary of State under William McKinley, and was the author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The letters included in this installment were written between January 19, 1865 and March 14, 1867 and were from David Heaton, Ben Higgins, William B. Reid, J. Lewis, David F. Caldwell, William Woods Holden, L.E. Jones, and William E. Hill. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941, p278-300, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters

Record #:

20048

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

The concluding installment of a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to John Sherman, an Ohio congressman and senator who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hays and Secretary of State under William McKinley, and was the author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The letters included in this installment were written between March 20, 1867 and November 4, 1877 and were from Lafayette Greene, Richard P. Dick, David Heaton, Charles Jerome Malord, John Tyler, Jr., William W. Green, J. W. Payne, Thomas B. Keogh, William Woods Holden, James Madison Leach, and Burr Higgins. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941, p373-388, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters

Record #:

20049

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to General William Tecumseh Sherman between January 16, 1865 and September 27, 1874. The letters included here are from Cyrus Ballou Comstock, S.L. Femoret, Absalom Baird, J. Wall Wilson, and Rene Edward DeRussy. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941, p389-392, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters

Record #:

20050

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to Radical Republican Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Secretary of State under Ulysses S. Grant, between October 30, 1867 and April 14, 1871. The letters included here are from John T. Deweese, Charles Snyder and Melford Vernooy. Some biographical information on the authors of the letters is included in the footnotes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941, p393-397, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Letters