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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Harriet R. McIntosh was born in 1846, the daughter of Alexander and Belinda (Sifford) McIntosh of Martindale post office in western Mecklen�burg County, and was the oldest child in a family that included her brother William (\"Bud\") and her sister Juliann (\"Julie\"). This collection includes 42 items consisting of 35 letters and 7 miscellaneous items. Almost all of Harriet McIntosh's correspondents in this small collection of letters addressed to her were women. Rather more than half the letters were written by cousins and aunts, and the remainder by friends.    Though her immediate family was small, Harriet had a large number of aunts, uncles, and cousins among the Morrises, Littles, Siffords, and Newbolds of Mecklenburg, Gaston, and Lincoln counties. Her father, whose total real and personal property was valued at $685 in 1860, owned a one-horse farm (40 acres cleared and 60 acres in woodland) that produced wheat, corn, and one bale of cotton yearly. In addition to the usual dairy cows and swine, the family owned three sheep that produced wool used to weave the family's cloth. Probably some of the cotton raised on the farm was reserved, too, for home weaving.    Letters from relatives are: 4 letters from cousin Belinda J. Morris, 1859-1860; 1 letter written from Petersburg, Va., by cousin R. W. Little, a Confederate soldier, 1862; 5 letters from aunt Elmina L. McIntosh, 1864-1865 and 1875; 5 letters from cousin Violet Ann Sifford, 1864-1865; 2 letters from aunt Isabella Sifford, 1865; 3 letters from cousin Charles and Jennie Newbold, 1865. Letters from friends are: 2 letters from Isabella Little, 1862, and 13 letters from her sister Bettie Little, 1863-1865; and a single letter from a soldier friend, B. D. Brown, in 1864. A survey of the 1860 agricul�tural census of the three counties would probably show that all the friends and kinsmen who were Harriet McIntosh's correspondents, or neighbors and kinsmen who are mentioned in these letters, were small farmers like her father-essentially self-sustaining families who furnished their children an education to a basic, elementary standard, though it is unlikely to have rum to a classical standard.    The correspondence in this collection reflects the fact (without descrip�tion) that the women and children tended and harvested the crops in the absence of the men who were away fighting in the Civil War. One of Miss McIntosh's aunts attributed her good health during this period to the hard work she performed, and remarked that the war had been-both good and bad for the women of her area. A constant theme throughout many of the letters is weaving of.homespun, though none of the comments are descriptive beyond  such observations that \"mother wove us some very ugly dresses\", or that black jeans cloth had been woven, or calico chesterfield was set up in the loom, and so forth. Similarly, entertainments such as \"candy stews\", quilting and carding parties, and fishing parties are referred to, but not described. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, seems to have predominated in the area. The acquisition of a new hymnal, which cannot be used since it was designed for the northern connection, is mentioned in a letter of February 25, 1860. Subsequent letters mention attendance at preachings and singings, assignments of ministers, and similar churchly matters.  Of the Civil War itself, little is said. Deaths of brothers, uncles, cousins, and neighbors who were soldiers and funeral orations for some of them are mentioned, the presence and condition of soldiers home on furlough is commented on, and there are occasional remarks concerning valentines sent to or received from soldiers. It is not until the fall of Fort Fisher and the closing days of the war, however, that more than passing reference is made to the war. The calling out of the Home Guard, including Miss McIntosh's father, is alluded to more than once. Three letters from her Newbold cousins in 1865 contain information concerning the passing of two male relatives disguised as women through military lines en route to Knoxville, Tennessee, apparently in order to avoid the final draft. Other letters remark on the passage of Wheeler's Cavalry through the area, false rumors of the approach of Sherman's army to the area, and news of the return of soldiers to their homes in the community as Confederate armies surrender."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"2 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":["Harriet R. McIntosh Letters . Private Collections. State Archives of North Carolina"]}],"description":"Harriet R. 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