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Showing posts with label Charlotte NC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charlotte NC. Show all posts
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, April 3, 1865

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Charlotte, N. C.—We barely escaped with the skin of our teeth! The flight from Richmond was even more hasty and exciting than the exodus fro...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Friday, May 20, 1864

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As it grew daylight we arrived at Greenboro, N. C., a pleasant place, appropriately named, I judge, for the beauty of the scene cheered and ...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 15, 1865

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(Waiting at the depot). Going as usual to the department this morning, I found orders had been issued for our immediate removal to Richmond....

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 18, 1865

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The people of Charlotte received us with unbounded kindness, and are treating us with royal hospitality. They met us in their carriages and,...

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 23, 1865

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Greensboro, N. C. — We positively hated to leave Charlotte, so many friends did we make there. Howbeit, a Treasury signer, like a good soldi...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Lydia McLane Johnston: March 15, 1865

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Charlotte, North Carolina , March 15th, 1865, Charlotte is in a state of great excitement to-day, at the arrival of the President's...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, February 19, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, PETERSBURG, February 19, 1865. HIS EXCELLENCY J. C. BRECKINRIDGE, Secretary of War, Richmond, Va. SIR: The accounts...