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33752
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33818
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Names men from Edgecombe County, NC and the Bethel community of Pitt Co., NC.
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33630
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33547
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He talks about troop conditions and being stationed in Greenville; the attempted burning of the bridge at Greenville and the appearance of the country.
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33151
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Deposition of Joseph Whichard, of Pitt co., NC, Prisoner of War, 1864
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33155
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33169
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On June 1, 1915, Winterville men, J. F. Harrington, B. F. Manning, A. B. Braxton, L. F. Elliot left for the Confederate Reunion in Richmond, VA.
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33240
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32927
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Petition by the women of the vicinity of Falkland, NC to exempt R. H. Parker from military service. He was wounded in 1862 in the battle at Sharpsburg and came home to recover. His father is alive, age 77, and furnished six sons for the war and has two daughters whose husbands are at war. The women of the area are dependent on R. H. Parker for the necessities of life.
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Smithville was the first community in North Carolina to advocate secession; Greenville followed Smithville on January 11, 1861, with a 100-gun salute. The citizens of Greenville, N.C. held a meeting and adopted resolutions for a Secession Convention. F.B. Satterthwaite and Bryan Grimes represented Pitt County at the Raleigh Secession Convention on May 20, 1861. About 2,000 Pitt County men joined the Confederate militia, and about the same number of black men joined the Federal militia. Pitt County’s diverse population made it a very important battleground in the war. In 1860, Pitt County’s population consisted of 7,840 whites, 127 free blacks, and 8,473 slaves. The first incident of the Civil War involving Pitt County occurred on June 5, 1862 at Tranter’s Mill, on Tranters Creek. Union troops fired shells at the rebel cavalry near Pactolus on June 9, 1862. In July 1862, Capt. Ayres’ artillery company fired on “Yankee Hall.” Federal soldiers from Washington invaded Greenville on October 9, 1862. Union Troops from New Bern under the command of Gen. Edward E. Potter marched through Greenville in July 1863, raiding and looting local businesses. They continued on to Tarboro, and upon coming back through Pitt County, they were assaulted by rebel soldiers near Falkland. Confederate soldiers chased them all the way back to New Bern. Federal troops under Capt. Graham captured Maj. John N. Whitford’s Battalion on November 5, 1863 near Haddock’s Crossroads. On December 30, 1863, rebel troops under Major Moore attacked Federal troops six miles below Greenville. Greenville women operated two hospitals for the wounded: one in the academy that is now the site of Sheppard Memorial Library and one in the Greene-Moye-Skinner house.
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32476
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The following is an index to applications for Confederate Pensions for veterans and widows of veterans of Pitt County. This index covers both series 1 and series 2. The original index is located behind the main desk of the NC Archives Search Room.
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32478
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This is a speech given by Henry T. King in 1902.
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32479
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