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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This small collection of three sets of letters has as common denominators the geographical area of Mecklenburg County and the period of the Civil War. Only the first selection includes the originals of the letters. The other two selections are made up of typed transcriptions of letters the whereabouts of the originals of which are unknown. The collection includes the following: 19 original Civil War letters and a photocopy of an 11-page typed transcription of them; one photocopy of a 21-page typed transcription of another set of 23 Civil War letters; and photocopies of typed transcriptions of two letters written in 1846 and 1865. The three soldiers are listed as follows.    William A. Elliott, private, Company A, 11th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, 19 original letters (with accompanying typed transcriptions) ranging in date from September 11, 1862, to May 25, 1863. Elliott, the son of Richard W. Elliott and his second wife, Biddy Elizabeth Lawing of Mecklen�burg County, N.C., enlisted as a soldier at age 21 on July 7, 1862. After a period of drilling and adapting to routine camp life at Camp Davis, on Topsail Sound, Elliott was sent with his regiment at the beginning of. October, 1862, to Camp Wilson, near Franklin, Virginia, to patrol Blackwater River. Two months later the regiment was ordered to Kinston, North Carolina, to join the force being assembled to resist a U.S. Army expedition (\"Foster's Raid\") being mounted out of occupied New Bern. Arriving the day following the battle of Kinston, the regiment marched on to Whitehall where it took part in the battle there on December 16. Elliott's regiment remained in the area of Magnolia, North Carolina, as part of Pettigrew's brigade supporting General D. H. Hill's unsuccessful campaign to recapture New Bern and Washing�ton from the federal forces then occupying those towns. Upon the failure of Hill's campaign, the 11th Regiment was detached and moved by way of Hooker�ton to Kinston, and from there by rail on May 1, 1863, to Richmond. The regiment remained on duty in Virginia until the Gettysburg campaign. It was on the eve of the battle of Gettysburg that William A. Elliott, with a presentiment of his death, entrusted his personal effects to a cousin so that they could be returned to his mother after his death.    Elliott's letters are written from various camps in North Carolina and Virginia. While not all of his letters survive in this collection, there is at least one surviving letter for every month he was in the army from September, 1862, to the end of May, 1863, Except for a brief description of a skirmish on Blackwater River, Virginia, on November 19, 1862, none of Elliott's letters descriptive of skirmishes or battles have survived in this collection of letters. For the most part they deal with Elliott's personal life, clothing and provision from home, news of neighborhood boys and cousins, who, too, were in the army, and goings-on at home.    George Locke Campbell, a farmer of Mecklenburg County, enlisted at age 40 in Company G, 34th Regiment, North Carolina Troops. He had married in 1845 Mary J. Summerville. Some years after her death, he married as his second wife Martha J. Brown. By the time the Civil War broke out, Campbell had at least five children in his household. Campbell's motivation for enlisting in the army is unclear. It is probable that he believed a year's voluntary enlistment would satisfy future military obligations. The letters reveal that prior to his enlistment Campbell settled farming matters by hiring another farmer, Alexander Johnson, to plant, tend, and harvest Campbell's crops during his twelve-month absence in the army.    Campbell was mustered into the army as a private at Camp Fisher, near High Point, then ordered to Camp Mangum near Raleigh for musket drill, and from there sent to Goldsboro to be armed. From Goldsboro the 34th Regi�ment was sent on March 1, 1862, to Hamilton on Roanoke River to prevent the U.S. forces (then assaulting the coastal fortifications and towns) from ascending the river to gain access to the interior of the state. At the end of April the regiment was sent to Virginia to defend the routes of advance from Fredericksburg to Richmond. Campbell was promoted to corporal prior to March 1, 1862, and to sergeant on April 22, 1862. His last letters com�plain of diarrhea, from which the whole regiment suffered. It was probably from this disease that he died at Martinsburg, West Virginia, on September 22, 1862.  The typed transcriptions of Campbell's twenty-three letters include three written by him to his farm manager, one written by the manager to him, one written to Campbell by his wife, and a brief note exhorting his adoles�cent daughter, Sarah, to turn her attention to the salvation of her soul. Otherwise the letters are all written by Campbell to his wife Martha. While some of the battles and skirmishes Campbell experienced are referred to, and while he remarks on the necessity of traveling light if he was required \"to trot about after old [\"Stonewall\"] Jackson\", most of the letters concern details of camp life, the state of Campbell's health, and the routine of daily living. The earliest letters, written from training camps, mention religious services commonly available to the soldiers--a topic altogether lacking in the later letters. Campbell's letters to Alexander Johnson are of much the same tenor as those to Mrs. Campbell, except that they, naturally, contain matters concerning the operation of the farm. The letter of March 15, 1862, describing the placement of troops at Hamilton and near Fort Branch is fragmentary, and the letter of June 1, 1862, seems to have been damaged in such a manner as to have obscured part of the text of the original.     John Johnston Lawing, was a native of Mecklenburg County who moved first to Tennessee then to Missouri. It is to Lawing that two of the letters in this collection, represented by typed transcriptions, were written. The first, dated November 28, 1846, was written by Lawing's mother, Nancy (Johnston) Lawing Scott shortly after the death of her second husband, Abraham Scott, on August 8 of that year. In the letter Mrs. Scott speaks of the cash value of her widow's year's provision as being sufficient to pay for recovery of part of her household furnishings sold with her late husband's effects by his administrator.    The second letter, dated December 21, 1865, was written by Lawing's uncle, Thomas T. Johnston, a long time elder in Paw Creek Presbyterian Church, who died May 11, 1880. In the letter, Johnston, an unabashed unionist, speaks of the folly of secession and the Civil War. At the same time, however, he relates the circumstances of the death of his son David, Company G, 34th Regiment, N.C. Troops, who was wounded at the Battle of Frazier's Farm, June 30, 1862, and speaks of the wartime experience of his sons-in-law who were also in the Confederate army. The second part of the letter mentions the adjustments that have had to be made in the months since the close of the war and the difficulty of dealing with matters in the absence of civil law in the state."},{"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":["McClure. Private Collections. 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