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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Captain Isaac E. Pearce was the son of Robert and Emily (Rogers) Pearce. His father appears to have been from Suffolk, Virginia, and his mother was from Gates County, North Carolina. Isaac E. Pearce received his share of his father's estate in 1857, and by 1858 he was in Gatesville, N.C., where he purchased a one-third share valued at $6000 in a local mercantile concern thenceforth known as Bond, Riddick, and Pearce. Upon the outbreak of war in 1861 Pearce volunteered with his company, the Gates Guards, and served with the company in the 5th Regiment, North Carolina Troops. He entered with the rank of lieutenant and was promoted to a captaincy effective May 5, 1862. At the end of October, 1862, Pearce returned home on a brief convalescent leave. Shortly after his return to the regiment, Pearce died of smallpox at Guinea Station, Virginia, on January 18, 1863. The collection of 29 items includes 21 letters written, with dates falling from 1857 to 1862. Other materials include a manuscript poem and a photograph of an unidentified woman.    The twenty-one letters are written in a good hand, are well composed, and are substantive in their information. More than half the letters are addressed to Captain Pearce's sister, and it appears that he meant them to serve her as instructive models of good letters. The four letters written between April 18 and July 9, 1861, are filled with patriotic sentiment and details of life in Camp Winslow, Halifax County, North Carolina, before Captain Pearce has seen military action.     The remaining fourteen letters dated from August 30, 1861, to December 29, 1862, relate some incidents of army life in the field, describe Captain Pearce's role in expeditions and battles, and contain news of Gates County men serving in the 5th Regiment. A letter of August 30, 1861, and an undated letter from early September, 1861, describe his advance as part of a body of 900 men to the environs of Washing�ton, D.C. His letter of February 12, 1862, expresses his reaction to the fall of Roanoke Island and the burning of Elizabeth City. Pearce's descrip�tion of the Battle of Williamsburg written on May 20, 1862, contains consid�erable detail, as do the letters following the battles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg, written on September 22 and October 7, 1862. Pearce's only notable remarks of dissatisfaction with his army life concern the lack of religious life in camp (letter of January 16, 1862) and his statements con�cerning the cheerless Christmas of 1862 (letter of December 29, 1862). Otherwise, his letters are positive in expression and hopeful in tone.    With reference to domestic affairs, Pearce's letters are frequently con�cerned with the subject of his sister's education, and occasionally with advice as to what course the family should take in the event of occupation of Gates County by federal forces. A letter of Feb. 12, 1862, suggests everything be burnt to keep it out of the hands of federal troops who carry devastation wherever they go, and recommends the family evacuate to Virginia or to the interior of North Carolina.     Three months later, however, Pearce's letter of May 23, 1862, approaches the subject more collectedly; his final suggestion is that the family and servants remain in Gates County since it appears inevitable that the entire eastern part of North Carolina will be given up to federal forces. After that date, Gates County affairs do not figure in the letters except as they relate to the fate of soldiers from the county."},{"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":["Isaac E. Pearce Letters. Private Collections. State Archives of North Carolina"]}],"description":"Isaac E. 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