Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889 to Zebulon B. Vance

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GLC#
GLC02701
Type
Letters
Date
9 March 1863
Author/Creator
Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889
Title
to Zebulon B. Vance
Place Written
Goldsboro, N.C.
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Confederate Major General Hill writes to Governor Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, addressing the issue of deserters. Informs Vance that Colonel Wheeler, commissioned to arrest deserters, will travel to Wilkes County, North Carolina. Orders militia officers there to act "in concert with Wheeler." In reference to deserters, states "we seem to have the whole world against us" and implicates "Yankees, Irish, Germans, Danes, Swedes, Poles, Italians, Tories & Negroes" for desertion. Docketed by Vance on verso.

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