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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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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 37 Issue 1, June 1969, p10-13, il
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20995
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This is a reprint of entries from the diary of Lt. James W. Chapin, Adjutant of the Eighth Indiana Cavalry Regiment. Chapin wrote it while riding with Gen. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry on the left wing of Gen. William T. Sherman's army during the Carolinas Campaign. The entries provide an account of Chapin's experiences during Sherman's march through the Carolinas as well as details and key witness testimony about allegations concerning the shooting of Union prisoners by Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler's men.
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28627
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Joseph Warren Poland was a former warrant officer who served during the Civil War in the Union Forces. A letter written by Poland is presented. The letter describes his experience when Wilmington, North Carolina was under attack.
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28619
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Albert Franklin Williams kept a diary during the Civil War from June through August, 1862. During this time, he marched from North Carolina into Virginia, was captured during the Seven Day’s Battles near Richmond, confined at Fort Delaware, and finally exchanged in Virginia.
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28616
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Letters between Alfred Gurganious and his wife Susan Jane (DeBose) Gurganious offer a personal account of the day to day anxieties and frustrations that separation brought during the Civil War. In 1861, Alfred enlisted in the North Carolina State Troops, leaving Susan with six children and a farm to manage in New Hanover.
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28094
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The Christ Church was established in New Bern in 1750. Newspapers and written accounts of soldiers tell the history of Christ Church during the Civil War. Despite a devastating fire, conflict, and different philosophies, Christ Church provided uninterrupted service to both northern and southern attendees.
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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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21061
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This is a reprint of eight letters written by George Washington Whitman, younger brother of Walt Whitman, during the Civil War. The letters describe battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern in February and March of 1862.
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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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21426
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Many couples wrote letters to each other covering a myriad of subjects during the Civil War. One of them was Francis Marion Poteet, a farmer, miller, and carpenter from Dysartsville in McDowell County, who was conscripted in 1863 at age 36. Left on the home front was his wife, Martha Hendley Poteet, who was pregnant, and ten children. Their letters describe the conflicts they faced--Francis staying alive and Martha keeping the family together and feeding them while fighting the landlord over eviction from their property. They survived and lived together for fifty-four years. Both died on the same day--April 2, 1902.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Sept 2013, p200-2002, 204, 206, 208, il Periodical Website
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28280
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This is a collection of primary source documentation regarding various episodes of the Civil War in Wilmington. The letters are of a familial nature, and document camp life and the early blockade of Wilmington.
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20876
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This is a reprint of letters written by seventeen year old Union Navy surgeon's steward Sayers Odgen Nichols while serving aboard the 8-gun side-wheeler USS MIAMI stationed as part of the Civil War blockading squadron off of Plymouth, NC. The letters were written between April 17, 1864 and May 6th, 1864 and describe his experiences aboard ship during that time including interaction with the confederate ram CSS ALBEMARLE. Some additional biographical information on Nichols is included in the introduction.
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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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21316
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John Wilson Crowell, who was the great-grandfather of Laura Winslow, was born in Union County in 1819. He was the fourth of eleven children, and the father of seven. At the age of forty-three he joined the 37th Regiment North Carolina Troops. Campbell's article consists of Crowell's genealogy and a series of letters he wrote home from Virginia in 1863-1864. He was killed in the fighting at Fussell's Mill, Virginia, August 18, 1864.
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Recall (NoCar F 252 .R43), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Win 2000, p8-12
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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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