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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Papers, mainly correspondence, of Joseph Leander Gash of Henderson Co. and Adairsville, Ga., and of his first and second wives and children. Letters are from friends and relations in Henderson, Buncombe, and Transylvania counties, and in Illinois (1853-1857), Georgia (1856- 1903), Tennessee (1856-1859), Texas (1857, 1867, 1897), Missouri (1859, 1903), Florida (1880), Indian Territory (1899, 1903), and Arkansas (1900, 1906), most concerning local news and family. Political comments are on the American \"Know-Nothing\" party, the 1854 election in Illinois, prohibition issue in Illinois and Indiana (1855) and North Carolina (1892), national and local elections of 1856 and 1892, and the North Carolina gubernatorial election of 1864. There are letters from Rev. J. B. Little, schoolteacher and agent for Strawberry Plains College in Tennessee, also mentioning prediction of collision with comet (1856- 1857); from students at State Normal College, Greensboro (1892-1893); from W. A. Osborne, Avery's Creek, Buncombe Co., to George A. Gash in Transylvania Co. about schoolteaching (1892-1894); and scattered references to other schools in Buncombe, Henderson, and Polk counties and in Georgia and Tennessee. Other letters of interest are from Texas describing the state (1857) and a murder and lynching there (1897); to J. L. Gash from fiancee about his failure to volunteer (1861); from Lt. H. Y. Gash and Sgt. Martin M. Gash, Co. D, 65th Regt. NCT (6th Regt. N.C. Cavalry), about bushwhackers, deserters, and Federal troops in East Tennessee, Georgia, and Kentucky, and from H. Y. Gash as prisoner of war on Morris Island (1863-1864); from Nicaragua (1891); and from Germany (1896). 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