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for "Pitt County--History--Civil War, 1861-1865"
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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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32480
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32481
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This letter talks about the fortifications around Washington, NC. This letter states that Pitt County is one of the poorest counties in the State and its inhabitants are much to be pitied. Sweet potatoes are the principal staple.
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32482
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Various death notices of Pitt County Civil War veterans taken from selected newspapers on microfilm in the NC Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University.
Names include: John Mooring 1906; Asa Garris 1907; James Grimsley 1907; Beverly Daniel 1907; Cicero Smith 1907; J. F. Hellen 1906; W. B. Lassiter 1918; G. S. Johnson 1908; Mrs. Martha Skeenes 1930; W. S. Roach 1911; George Hinson 1911; Christopher C. Bland 1917; Walter Carter 1910; S. A. Dudley 1910; James A. Briley 1923; Samuel Brown 1911; Guilford Harris 1912, Henry Cameron 1912; J. S. Norman 1911; George Andrews 1912; J. J. Nobles 1903; Lynn Manning 1904; W. B. Moore 1904; Arnold Baldree 1904; W. G. Little 1912.
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Article about W. C. Baldwin, Confederate veteran of Orange Co., NC, who married Annie Garris of Pitt County. He visited Greenville in 1924 and told of his service in the Civil War. He was stationed in Greenville and fell ill and was cared for in a hospital set up in the old academy on Evans Street.
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32484
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32485
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These letters from 1864 from M. E. Whitehurst and H. C. Whitehurst to their mother, Mrs. H. P. Whitehurst of Pitt County. One letter from 1863 is from Mrs. Martha Ann Brickell Hoyt (1804-1889) widow of Goold Hoyt, to her daughter in Louisiana, Sally Marshall, wife of Allen Walker Marshall. She talks of the conditions in Greenville and the slave trade.
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32487
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This feature article from 1917 gives the Civil War service of John Henry Whitehurst and James Berry Whitehurst, twins born in 1838, from near Bethel, NC.
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32488
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This affidavit by Andrew Vincent concerns the fate of William Moye, who never returned home to Pitt County after the Civil War.
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32490
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This article from 1926 tells the story of and Civil War service of John Lang of near Fountain, Pitt County.
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32491
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This is news article talking of the shelling of the plantation house, Yankee Hall, near Pactolus.
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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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33151
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Deposition of Joseph Whichard, of Pitt co., NC, Prisoner of War, 1864
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