Conscription and Militia Provisions in North Carolina Act
The document outlines North Carolina militi a home defense act ratified July 1863, detailing exemption rules, enrollment of white males, and Governor power to form companies and arm them. It also notes Quaker exemptions and limits on service, with officers commissioned and troops under state control for up to three months. Charleston Mercury reprints Judge Tragrath’s foreigner conscription ruling and guidance demanding restraint from private property damage.
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General Assembly
North Carolina
Congress
Confederate States
Confedesate
Generals Assembly
Sihotrene
Seid
Society of Friends
Charleston Mercury
Tragrath
Colums
Twize Margrath
Tke Ary Spinnken
Fort Sams
Mali
Tie
Court of Appeals
Great Britain
British Dominions
Gettysburg four days siege reported with heavy casualties
The report details four days of battle near Gettysburg with Union and Confederate forces clashing on fields and hills. The account notes thousands of wounded and dead, fortifications captured, and leadership injuries, with estimates of casualties and troop strength across the sequence.
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Gettysburg
Poe
New York
Pennsylvania
Confederate Notes and Indiana Debt Defaults Reported
The Richmond Dispatch notes Confederate Government notes remain widely accepted despite banks declining to hold them. Taxes will redeem the notes as policy aims to retire them swiftly. Also reported is Indiana's default on interest due July 1 1863, the first since its 1847 compromise with creditors.
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Richmond
Richmond Dispatch
Indiana
Private Property—Lee’s order to Army in Northern Virginia
General Orders from Chambersburg Pa dated June 27 1863 commend troops for sturdy marching and high spirit while condemning outrages against unarmed private property. Commanding General warns such barbarities undermine discipline and the Civilized conduct expected of soldiers. It underscores that we make war but must refrain from destruction of private property.
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T. EE. Ler
Chambersburg
Gner
Acts and Resolutions from 1863 General Assembly Extra Session
A compilation of acts and resolutions passed during the 1863 extra session, listing tax, county duties, county courts, mining and insurance charters, public librarian salary, refugee voting, and militia provisions, with several resolutions thanking officials and addressing Confederate currency and fortifications.
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General Assembly
A.D
Confederate Treasury
Mecklenburg
R. G. Tuttle
Caldwell County
Jones
Josith Hodges
Pitt County
Gibson Hill Mining Company
Literary Fund
Congress
Samuel A Warren
Northampton Counnty
Charlotte
North Carolina Stock Insurance Company
Kernersville High School
Forsyth
Acts of the
North Carolina
John Elliott
Pasquotank County
Samuel J. Crawford
Craven County
Wm. H. Ramsay
A. C. Latham
John N. Whiteford
Sea Bird
Adjutant General
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Ieee
Scales
Pend
Armstead
Darksdale
Garnett
Kemper
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