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Civil War papers (1862-1865), including correspondence, certificates, oaths, and invoices, are comprised of chiefly unrelated papers concerning military life and action in North Carolina during the Civil War. The bulk of the material pertains to Union troops. Letters from Union soldiers stationed at Mt. Olive, Goldsboro, Kinston, Croatan, and New Bern, N.C., concern personal affairs, provisions, the battle at Bentonville, morale, an engagement with Confederate troops near Kinston, camp life, African American troops, and capturing of Confederate troops near New Bern. Letters from Confederate soldiers are from Camp Badger and Weldon, N.C., and discuss the yellow fever epidemic in Wilmington, personal affairs, and morale. Miscellaneous items include James S. Hall's petition to the Confederate government asking that he not be conscripted into the military; invoice of subsistence stores of Fort Fisher, N.C.; travel voucher; medical certificate of furlough; and loyalty oaths to the United States government. |
