American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online

The lot is comprised of the following:

ALS from A.H. Patterson to friend Charley. Milton, NC, 10 December 1860. 4 page letter in which Patterson, a college student, expresses secessionist views, a desire to unite with sister states, and "stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their time of trial." Patterson mentions the tightening of money due to uneasiness in the state over the possible conflict. He later served in the 13th North Carolina Infantry.

[With:] 4 ALsS from Private Hugh McAuley, Co. C, 37th North Carolina Volunteers. Camp Tadpole, Newbern, NC, 5 January 1862. 2 page letter in which McAuley relates to his mother, "I have been with cold but am better...when I was sick the boys were scrubbing and threw out my bible and it lay out all night in a ditch and it is so bad I will send it home and try to get another one. Letters from home make me cry and laugh both" (slight repair to a border, staining and some loss). -- Camp Magnum, Wake, NC, 8 January 1862. One page letter to his mother noting..."I would pay the postage but we send out letters with strangers and sometimes steal the money and burn the letter." -- Camp Newbern, Craven County, NC, 10 January 1862. He writes to his mother about the location of his camp near the river, which is "full of ships and steamboats." -- Camp Holmes, 28 April 1862. 2 page letter written to McAuley's sister, with possibly hand-made postal cover. He mentions that the Colonel [Lee] said he should have the first furlough given. He also asks for all the particulars of his father's death (toning, edge wear, soiling). McAuley died a few months later in Lynchburg, VA, of typhoid fever.

[With:] Partly printed CSA interim deposit document which served as a receipt for a new issue of 4% bonds, with this receipt intended to be turned in when the bonds were received. 29 March 1864. Notes on verso attest to the delivery of the bonds (toning). -- Partly printed CSA document. Pitch Landing, NC, 28 August 1864. Document in which Confederate officer trades Joseph Riddick 5 bales of cotton for 15 head of beef. -- Postal cover addressed to Colonel D.M. Carter in Pitt County, NC, Scott #12 Jefferson Davis ten cent pen cancelled, pen postal marking Franklin, VA. Carter, 4th NC Infantry, was WIA at Seven Pines (soiling). -- Postal cover addressed to Wilkes County, NC, with a pair of local Scott #7 five cent stamps tied with a Wilmington, NC, postmark. Dated 20 May (soiling, wear to edges). -- 6 North Carolina 1861 bank notes, including 5, 10, 20, and 50 cent notes, and $1.00 and $2.00 notes. (toning, staining, edge and corner wear, including some with loss). 

[Also with:] Post-war correspondence, including 2 partial letters written from Davidson College in North Carolina (one with holes, the other separated into several fragments). -- Promissory note written and signed by Colonel Wharton Green and his wife for $1000, Baltimore, 1874. Green served as a colonel in General Henry A. Wise's legion and raised and equipped a regiment. He was captured on Roanoke Island in February 1862 and paroled. He was wounded at Wilmington, NC, and again at Gettysburg, where he was captured and detained at Johnson's Island, OH. 

Together, 18 items from North Carolina, many dating from the Civil War.