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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This small collection of papers relates to Calvin Richardson (ca.1802-1868), a Johnston County slaveowner, and to his children, especially to his sons. Of the 24 Civil War letters in this collection, 18 were written by Ruffin B., and of those, 14 were written to his brother William A. B. and sister-in-law, Nancy P. Richardson: All the letters are essentially personal, contain little war news, and are not descriptive. Instead, they illustrate the nature of familial relations existing among siblings with a fairly wide range in their ages (18 to 35). Miscellaneous Civil War materials in the collection include two poems composed for his wife by William Abijah B. Richardson while at Camp Grimes on Tar River near Greenville in the late spring of 1863. The post-bellum materials in this collection include a copy of the printed minutes of the 1874 meeting of the North Carolina State Grange, the proceedings of the National Grange in 1875, the manual and the songbook (both, 1874) of the Grange, and a blank application for membership in the Grange. Postbellum miscellanea include a copy of the 1890 ritual of the Farmers' Alliance and the annual catalog for 1892-1893 issued by the Wendell Preparatory School, and other materials.    Calvin Richardson had a house and lot in Earpsboro and a 620-acre farm on Little River, was the father of six sons and five daughters born between 1828 and 1849. His oldest son, William Abijah B. Richardson (1828-1891), whose papers these were and from whom they descended to the donors, married Nancy Peterson Bunch in January 1853 and settled near her family at nearby Eagle Rock, Wake County.    Just before the outbreak of the Civil War, Piety, wife of Calvin Richard�son and mother of his children, died, and, at age 59, he married Mary Hall, the daughter of a neighboring farm laborer, a teenager younger than his first nine children. After war was declared, his sons .Jonathan H. and Ruffin B. enlisted in Company C, 5th Regt., N.C. Troops. During the summer conscription of 1862 his sons. William A. B. and C. Troy enlisted in the 7th-.Regiment, Confederate Cavalry (otherwise styled 62d Georgia Regiment, Cavalry). Their younger brother, Redden B., who was nearly of an age with his stepmother, appears to have become troublesome within the family by the beginning of 1863 when his father was said to be \"trying to hire men to carry Redden off to the war\" and \"trying to run him off\". Shortly thereafter, and upon the advice of Ruffin B., who disapproved of their father's treatment of the boy, Redden joined his brothers in the cavalry. Of the two brothers in the infantry, Ruffin B. was wounded at Manassas, captured at Gettysburg and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died of smallpox on November 29, 1863.. Jonathan H. was captured at Winchester, Virginia, on September 19, 1864, and he- sat out the remainder of the war in Point Lookout prison. The three brothers in the cavalry, William A. B., C. Troy, and Redden B., served through�out the war and survived to return home.    The Civil War letters illustrate the nature of familial relations existing among siblings with a fairly wide range in their ages (18 to 35). Ruffin not only teases his sisters but includes teasing messages for girls in the eighborhood. A consistent theme in many of his letters is the lack of marriage prospects for the girls left at home, a theme which he sometimes treats sympathetically, sometimes satiri�cally, and sometimes, perhaps, jealously. A letter to his brother, dated December 23, 1861, contains strictures on the marriages at home between young girls and old men who, he suggests, \"had better be seeking for a better world instead of getting married.\"    Miscellaneous Civil War materials in the collection include two poems composed for his wife by William Abijah B. Richardson while at Camp Grimes on Tar River near Greenville in the late spring of 1863: \"Dear Nancy, Where art thou,\" and Believe me, Believe me not.\" Another poem from the period of the war, \"Creation and Grace\" was cut from a contemporary issue of The Southern Presbyterian (the family, however, attended nearby Hepsibah Baptist Church). A manuscript copy of the sentimental song so popular during the war, \"Just Before the Battle Mother\" appears to date from well after the end of the war.    After the war's close, William A. B. Richardson resumed farming near Eagle Rock, and in the 1880s opened a general merchandise store in Eagle Rock. When the Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was getting under way in North Carolina in 1873, Richardson became interested. He assisted in organizing Eagle Rock Grange No. 548, of which he was secretary-treasurer, in 1874. The post-bellum materials in this collection include a copy of the printed minutes of the 1874 meeting of the North Carolina State Grange, the proceedings of the National Grange in 1875, the manual and the songbook (both, 1874) of the Grange, and a blank application for membership in the Grange.    Postbellum miscellanea include a copy of the 1890 ritual of the Farmers' Alliance and the annual catalog for 1892-1893 issued by the Wendell Preparatory School (where his future daughter-in-law, Mattie Richardson of Earpsboro, was a student). Tradesmen's circulars are represented by two advertising Dr. E. C. West's patent medicines. A May 9, 1892, circular letter with two enclosures addressed to Billy Herndon of Eagle Rock, N.C., invites him to participate in a scheme to circulate fraudulent \"greenbacks\" of small denomi�nation ($1 to $20) in North Carolina."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"3 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Richardson Family Papers. Private Collections. 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