The Confederate On North Carolina Secession Debate
Before May 20 1861 public opinion in North Carolina split on secession with factions praising union resilience and others urging immediate action. The piece traces reactions to Lincoln's election, warns of a convention movement, cites Reade's speech, and discusses government responses, martial law risks, and press loyalties amid wartime tension. It notes a telegraph link between Raleigh and Fayetteville and reports on Federal troops and a soldier’s death.
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Despatches from the Civil War North Carolina theater
A Richmond driven summary reports Feb 4 dispatches from Wiluiners and Kisston detailing Gen Martin with the 17th and 42d and Col Jackson from Kenansville breaking a railroad at Shepherds ville and driving enemy from Newport Barracks. It notes a Confederate gunboat Underwriter captured near Kinston with 20 killed or wounded and 4 missing, plus a letter from Maj Gen R E Ropes praising Ramseur and Johnston for enlisting support in North Carolina. It also covers Smithfield action with NC troops, Butler’s orders, and various war news items from Richmond and Washington.
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Newport River
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Aman
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Gettysburg
R. E. Ropes
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Neval Pickett
Kinston
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Newbery
Yankee Lies of the South exposed by Northern papers
The piece mocks Northern reports as delusions about the South’s collapse. It cites alleged bread riots in the South, Beauregard’s Charleston stance, a desertion scare in a South Carolina regiment, mutiny claims in the Thirteenth Virginia, Earls’s expedition failure, and widespread Unionist sentiment in the rebel capital.
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H Reiius Sociery
Civil War Senate and House discuss army expansion
The Confederate era reports show Senate committees favoring an army efficiency bill employing diverse corps, a general staff bill, and a tax measure in secret session. House actions include re enlistment evidence, gratitude resolutions, and a bill on temporary staff duties. Desertion cases mount as battles and raids continue along multiple fronts with artillery exchanges and railroad disruptions shaping ongoing conflict.
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Judiciary Committee
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From Gen Lee's Army Near Kettle Run Reports and Raids
Gen Lee's army dispatches note Kincheloe of Prince William sending prisoners captured near Kettle Run to the Sth corps, with lines quiet. Rosser reports trains and stores seized, wagons, mules, and prisoners taken. losses total 250. Enemy mass and crossing attempts at Morton's Ford and Barnett's Ford repulsed by Johnson and Seales.
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Richmond News Reports Confederate Defenses and Yankee Movements
From Richmond comes hurried dispatches noting Yankee forces approaching Bottoms Bridge and probing toward the city. Reports claim Hood's troops in the area with heavy firing while Confederate positions hold. rumors of enemy demonstrations and reconnaissance. News also cites weather aiding military operations, political notices on lawmakers Wilcox and Gamble, and scattered civilian impacts such as bread shortages and smallpox concerns in Knoxville and surrounding garrisons.
Turbulent War News Mixed With Foreign Reports
From North and Europe the report notes Denmark rejecting Prussia and Austria, envoys to Copenhagen, and a proposal valuing 12,000,000 pounds. Messages describe Austrian troop movements, Holstein conflicts, and shipping lines, while reports claim rebels defeated near Patterson's Creek and captures on the Kanawha river. Train movements and cattle counts also appear amid the unsettled signals and unchanged gold.
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Northward currents stir Civil War rumors and actions
A New Orleans letter reports Mobile may be attacked by Farragut with land forces as Union troops converge by water, while the Alabama destroys a cargo valued at one billion in the Sunda Straits. Generals Grant and Reed are cited in a bill reviewing Lieut. G’s grade, and James B. Clay recently dined in Candle.
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New York
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la France Eays
Alabama
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