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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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