Letter about changes in North Carolina, 1865
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Mary Thompson of New Bern, North Carolina, a town that was held by the Union forces throughout the Civil War, wrote to Lt. John P. Sheahan about the post war changes in the town.
She reported that her friends and familiar people were returning and referred to the "glorious news" that N.C. had returned to the Union.
Thompson met Sheahan when he and Maj. Charles Lynch traveled through the town after they escaped from a Confederate prison in Columbia, South Carolina, in late 1864.
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- Title: Letter about changes in North Carolina, 1865
- Creator: Thompson, Mary
- Creation Date: 1865-05-28
- Subject Date: 1865
- Town: Dennysville, New Bern
- County: Washington
- State: ME, NC
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions (cm): 20.2 x 12.7
- Local Code: Coll. 184, Box 1/14
- Object Type: Text
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LC Subject Headings
Prisoner-of-war escapes
Escaped prisoners of war
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 31st (1864-1865)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Sheahan, John Parris--Correspondence
Letters
Prisoners of war
Camp Sorghum (Columbia, S.C.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina
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