Raynors HCA 2014-11
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War-date Confederate soldier Autograph Letter Signed, "J.P. Jones" 35th North Carolina Infantry , KIA January 13, 1865, 4pp. quarto, Camp at the Residence of Mrs. Hooks Five Miles North of Goldsboro, February 19, 1864, in part: "…I was detailed to report at this palce for the purpose of guarding property. As the soldiers had been committing many depradiations upon the citizens of this vicinity such as stealing potatoes, killing hogs, plundering henroost, and so on….I can not attempt to described to you the hospitality I am treated with as I think language is not sufficient to portray this life. There is no twenty seven ways about it but what our line and sufferings are much allevated by our removal from camp to this hospitable mansion. There is only four of our Regt three privates and one noncommissioned officer are here…Mrs. Hooks mended my coat very neat yesterday…I may get out of the service this spring as Congress has passed the military bill exempting all men where there was as many as Eight whites depending on his labour for support that is if you ever depended on me for a support if that exempts me it will be all right…" VG. The NC 35th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in November, 1861, at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina. Its members were raised in the counties of Mecklenburg, Onslow, McDowell, Moore, Chatham, Person, Union, Henderson, Wayne, and Catawba. After fighting at New Bern, the regiment was ordered to Virginia and assigned to General R. Ransom's and M.W. Ransom's Brigade. It participated in the difficult campaings of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Fredericksburg . Ordered back to North Carolina, it fought at Boon's Mill and Plymouth , then returned to Virginia in May, 1864. The 35th saw action at Drewry's Bluff , endured the hardships of the Petersburg siege south of the James River, and ended the war at Appomattox . This unit sustained 12 7 casualties at Malvern Hill , 25 in the Maryland Campaign, 29 at Fredericksburg , and 103 at Plymouth . Many were disabled at Saylor's Creek , and on April 9, 1865, it surrendered 5 officers and 111 men.
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