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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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