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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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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
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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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21547
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This article follows the experiences of John Wesley Bone of Nash County who served through the Civil War with the 30th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, Company I. Bone later wrote of his wartime life in A Personal Memoir of the Civil War Service of John Wesley Bone: A Confederate Soldier from Nash County which was published in 1904.
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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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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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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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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 17 Issue 1, May 2004,
p3-20, il, bibl
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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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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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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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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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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Feb 1977,
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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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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 17 Issue 3, April 1974,
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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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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p73-92, il, por, f
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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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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 16 Issue 3, May 1973,
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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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