Title: Letter from George Howard Jr. to Anna Stamps

Identifier: 0197-b1-fa   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/33728)

Description: A letter written from George Howard Jr. to his wife Anna Stamps. He discusses fears of a Union raid and an accident involving Confederate troops who were being transported to Goldsboro, N.C., by wagon. The Howards were a prominent Tarboro, N.C., family. George Howard Jr. (1829-1905) was an attorney, a Superior Court judge (1859-1865), publisher of the Tarboro Southerner, president of the Pamlico Banking & Insurance Company, president of the Tarboro Land & Trust Company, and a cotton mill director.