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Collection Number: 05795-z

Collection Title: Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers, 1862-1864, 1983

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Size 45 items
Abstract The Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers are chiefly letters of Thomas Francis Price to Sarah Harrill Price, married white farmers from Rutherford County, N.C. Thomas Francis Price wrote from camps in Tarboro, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Wilmington, Winston, Halifax, Garysburg, Trap Hill, and Allegheny County, N.C., and from Franklin, Richmond, Drury's Bluff, and Petersburg, Va., while serving in the 56th North Carolina Infantry, Company I. His letters are concerned with upkeep of the farm, the weather at home, provisions, camp life, clothing, morale, pro war and pro peace sentiments within his company, the temptation to desert, and the death penalty for a soldier accused of desertion. There are a few letters written by Sarah Harrill Price, S. L. Price, William H. Harrill, and D. D. Price. (Typed transcriptions for all letters have been provided by the donor.) Also included is "A Soldier"s Conscience," an article about these letters by Doran L. Cart, 1983.
Creator Price (Family : Rutherford County, N.C.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers #05795-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received as a gift from Marcia Whiteside Walton in honor of Grace Walker Whiteside, James D. Whiteside, Lottie Green Walker, and Walter Spurgeon Walker. in April 2019 (Acc. 103589).
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2019

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Thomas Francis Price and Sarah Harrill Price were married white farmers from Rutherford County, N.C. Thomas Francis Price enlisted as a private in the 56th North Carolina Infantry, Company I, on 8 July 1862. He deserted on 21 August 1864.

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The Price Family of Rutherford County, N.C., Papers are chiefly letters of Thomas Francis Price to Sarah Harrill Price, married white farmers from Rutherford County, N.C. Thomas Francis Price wrote from camps in Tarboro, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Wilmington, Winston, Halifax, Garysburg, Trap Hill, and Allegheny County, N.C., and from Franklin, Richmond, Drury's Bluff, and Petersburg, Va., while serving in the 56th North Carolina Infantry, Company I. His letters are concerned with upkeep of the farm, the weather at home, provisions, camp life, clothing, morale, pro war and pro peace sentiments within his company, the temptation to desert, and the death penalty for a soldier accused of desertion. There are a few letters written by Sarah Harrill Price, S. L. Price, William H. Harrill, and D. D. Price. (Typed transcriptions for all letters have been provided by the donor.) Also included is "A Soldier"s Conscience," an article about these letters by Doran L. Cart, 1983.

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45 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Folder 1-2

Folder 1

Folder 2

Letters and transcriptions, 1862-1864

Folder 3

"A Soldier"s Conscience," 1983

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