Your search returned 18 results in 10 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
artial is in progress, July 16; besieges the garrisoned house of Col. Philip Alston, of Chatham, Aug. 8; captures forty-four Whigs under Colonel Wade, and disperses his troops at McFalls Mills, Sept. 1, and fights the Whigs at Lundley's Mill, Chatham county......Sept. 14, 1781 Maj. James H. Craig, who had occupied Wilmington with British troops since June 29, whence he directed raids into the surrounding country, receiving news of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, evacuates the place..nited States rejected by North Carolina, Dec. 4, 1866, is ratified by legislature......July 4, 1868 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment......March 5, 1869 Acts of violence by secret organizations in Lenoir, Jones, Orange, and Chatham counties lead Governor Holden to issue a proclamation of admonition and warning......Oct. 20, 1869 Owing to alleged outrages of the Kuklux, Governor Holden proclaims Alamance county in a state of insurrection, March 7, 1870, and Caswell county, Ju
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 34 (search)
Maclean. In the dim dawn of April 12th, 1861, I was awakened by a low, resonant peal as of distant thunder. It was the first gun of the war. Defiant Sumter was besieged. On the 12th of April, 1865, I heard the echoes of the last. Such a lovely season it was! We can all remember how the trees budded and the flowers bloomed that fateful spring. As regiment after regiment filed along the road, under the boughs where early birds were singing, past our temporary home in Chatham county, North Carolina, my eyes grew dim, and my heart ached recalling those lines: And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass; Weeping, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning braves. Scarcely two months before most of them had been transported southward, in box-cars or on flats in the cruelest weather, to reinforce Johnston, and keep back the advancing enemy—a puny dyke against a rushing, overwhelming flood. Now they plodded we
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
m of service expired, was disbanded. The Orange Light Infantry then broke up, and its members attached themselves to other commands. Four companies were raised in Chapel Hill and vicinity during the war. Governor Swain is responsible for the statement that thirty of these volunteers fell in battle or died in hospitals. Company G, Eleventh North Carolina, was one of those companies that was made up with volunteers from Chapel Hill and the surrounding sections of Orange, with a few from Chatham county. The following members of this company (G) lost their lives: Killed in battle. First Lieutanant John H. McDade, July 1, 1863; Second Lieutenant James W. Williams, July i, 1863; Second Lieutanant N. B. Tenny, July 1, 1863; Corporals W. S. Durham, W. G. Ivey, J. J. Snipes, July 1, 1863, Lueco Ferrell, Oct. 27, 1864; Privates Wesley Andrews, Cornelius Edwards, William Pendergrass, Esau Garrett, July 1, 1863, T. J. Whittaker, Aug. 21, 1864, W. D. Flintoff, Oct. 1, 1864. Died of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
prisoners, and they immediately hung him. On the eighteenth of April, I set out for April 18. Chatham, where I learned that a wedding was to be that day. We surrounded the house, and drove all out one by one. I found one concealed upstairs. Having my pistols in my hand, I discharged them both at his breast; he fell, and that night expired. use Fanning's Journal from an exact manuscript copy. Yet this Fanning held a British commission as colonel of the loyal militia in Randolph and Chatham counties, with authority to grant commissions to others as captains and subalterns; and, after the war, was recommended by the office of American claims as a proper Chap. XXVIII.} 1782. April 16. person to be put upon the half-pay list. At the north, within the immediate precincts of the authority of Clinton, Colonel James Delancy, of West Chester, caused three rebels to be publicly executed within the British lines, in a pretended retaliation for the murder of some of the refugees. In New
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Canadians Incensed at the interference of England in the extradition case. (search)
"Go it while You're Young," --We find the following in the Raleigh (N. C.) Register: Married, at the residence of the bride's father, on the 12th December, by the Rev. D. A. Melican, Rev. Mark Smith and Miss Samantha Ann Haseltine, daughter of Governor Cook, aged 12 years 6 months and 13 days, all of Chatham county.
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Veteran Patriot. (search)
A Veteran Patriot. --The Raleigh N. C., Standard learns that Gen. R. C. Cotton, who must be over seventy years of age, has raised a volunteer company in Chatham county. Gen. C. commanded a Chatham company in 1812, and was stationed at Norfolk.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac. (search)
ams of smoking caps, dressing gowns, slippers, comforts, and all sorts of worsted things wrought by female hands. Now, however, I am as fortunate as any one; for, when I get envious and sad, I look at my little box of candles, and think that some one is interested in me, or at least in the labor of my pen. My fair friend has ten thousand thanks for her splendid gift. Some time ago a box containing a lot of clothing for the First Maryland regiment, was forwarded from Pittsboro', Chatham county, N. C. The ladies of that town have been very patriotic, and have furnished the troops from their own vicinity with every necessary article of clothing. Their own people being provided for, the young ladies of Pittsboro' responded to the call made in behalf of the Maryland boys, and at once forwarded them a large box of wearing apparel. The box was sent to Mr. Zimmerman, at Manassas, who delivered it to one of Col. Stuart's men. Since that time nothing has been heard from it, and the ladi
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Contributions for the soldiers. (search)
Post-Office Change. --We are requested to state that the post-office at Mud Lick, N. C., has been removed, and the name changed to Simon Grove, Chatham county, N. C. --Samson Edwards, postmaster.
The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Drowned. (search)
Drowned. --This morning about 9 o'clock, Mr, A. B. Utely, whilst on the wharf in the lower part of the town, fell over into the river, and was drowned. His body was recovered in a short time, and every effort made to resuscitate life, but without effect, Mr. Utely, we believe, was a native of Chatham county, in this State, but for several years past had been a resident of this town. He was about 60 years old, and leaves a family and a large circle of acquaintances to mourn his death,--Wilmington Journal. 2d.
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Maurice Q Waddle, of Chatham county, N. C., announce himself a candidate for Congress in the 7th district, in place of S H Christians, deceased. A meeting in Ancon county has nominated Hun. Thos. S. Ashe for the vacancy.