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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
, was moving on the Middle road toward the town of Hillsboro, General Wheeler moving by the Chapel Hill road wihe two days consumed in this march from Raleigh to Hillsboro, we were barely out of sight of each other. I hadn as St. Mary's street, and ran due north from the Hillsboro street road. It is now known as the Upper Durham road, and comes back into the Hillsboro road again at a point some fifteen miles from the city. I say that I hng the army of General Johnston had fallen back on Hillsboro, they proceeded by the old stage road, known, of cpped for the night at Strayhorn's, nine miles from Hillsboro. This was a long, low farm house on the south side of the Hillsboro road, the stables, barns and lot being on the north side of the road. Here the staff horsesetter he had for Vance). If, not, to follow him to Hillsboro and if possible secure it before its delivery to GHampton occupied the house on the left side of the Hillsboro road, midway between the dirt road and the railroa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
ic anniversary—an anniversary so endeared to us of the South, filled as it is, with sad associations, and proud memories of noble men, brave deeds and costly sacrifices. It was in Raleigh that I entered the Confederate army, at the outset of the War Between the States, as Adjutant of the 22d North Carolina Regiment under the peerless Pettigrew. In this city my family found refuge and welcome after the occupation of Newburn by the Federal forces, and here I returned after the sad end near Hillsboro when Johnston surrendered to Sherman. My life as a soldier is associated with Raleigh, and it is most grateful to speak to her people—among whom I number many friends and some contemporaries—of those far off, stirring days of great events in 1861-865. On the Feast of All Saints' Day, which according to the Christian calendar, occurs on the first of November, a beautiful custom is observed in Europe and in parts of this country. The day is kept as a holiday, and many persons, laying as<