North Carolina Voices
War in Eastern North Carolina
| "This evening we heard the startling intelligence. That the Yankees have possession of 'Fort Hatteras' on the cape. The 17th Reg. state troops, Col-Campbell went down last evening to have a fight with the 'vandals'!" God speed them on to Victory. Let them retake the 'Fort' O My God! It makes every vein ready to burst with just indignation. When I think of such vile feet treading the soil of the Proud old North State. Arise, ye me of N. Cr. Off with the cowardly hordes . . . . Hatteras taken by Yanks — women and children fleeing. 'Quick oh God! Save us from the enemy. Surely thou hast not forsaken us.'" | |
| — Elizabeth Collier, Diary entries, August 28 and August 30, 1861. (Elizabeth Collier Papers) | |
| "C.S. Neuse-(ance) March 19th '64 Kinston N.C. Dear Sis . . . I find it exceedlingly dull here as the town is completely deserted by all of its respectable inhabitants & I know none of those living in the country round about. We (the Officers of the Neuse, viz; Lt Comdg B. P. Loyal[l], 1st Lt. F. L. Hage, Masters [A. S.] Worth & [R. H.] Bacot, Engineers [J. T.] Tucker & [R. E.] Edwards & Asst Surg [Joel G.] King) live in a small house on the street, which is the terminus of Col Washington's Avenue, & about a quarter of a mile from our future home the Neus'ance." | |
| — Lt. Richard H. Bacot, officer aboard the ironclad warship CSS Neuse, March 19, 1864. (North Carolina State Archives) | |
