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THE
Last Ninety Days of the War
IN
NORTH-CAROLINA.
BY
CORNELIA PHILLIPS SPENCER.
New-York:
WATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
W. H. CHASE, PUBLISHING AGENT
1866.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by
CHARLES F. DEEMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for theSouthern District of New-York.
TO THE
Hon. D.L. Swain, LL.D.,
AT WHOSE SUGGESTION IT WAS UNDERTAKEN, AND BY WHOSE
INVALUABLE ADVICE, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND ASSISTANCE
IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED, THIS BOOK
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
The papers on the Last Ninety Days of the War inNorth-Carolina, which originally appeared in the New-YorkWatchman, and are now presented in book form, were commencedwith no plan or intention of continuing them beyond two or threenumbers. The unexpected favor with which they were received led totheir extension, and finally resulted in their republication.
To do justice to North-Carolina, and to place beyond cavil or reproachthe attitude of her leaders at the close of the great Southern StatesRights struggle—to present a faithful picture of the times, and a justjudgment, whether writing of friend or foe, has been my sole object.Slight as these sketches are, they may claim at least the merit oftruth, and this, I am persuaded, is no slight recommendation with thetruth-loving people of North-Carolina.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
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| Difficulties of the History—The Position of North-Carolina—The PeaceConvention—The Montgomery Convention—Governor Vance—The SalisburyPrison—Testimony on the Trial, | 13 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Winter of 1864-'5—Letter of Governor Vance—Appeal for General Lee'sArmy—The Destitution of the People—Fall of Fort Fisher—Advance ofGeneral Sherman—Contrast between Sherman and Cornwallis—Extractsfrom Lord Cornwallis's Order-book—The "Bloody Tarleton," | 26 |
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