Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart Family Papers 1840-1966 1840-1877

Stewart, Charles Bellinger Tate

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United daughters of the Confederacy

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The Southern Cross of Honor award, which later became the Cross of Military Service, originated on Oct. 13, 1862 as an act of the Confederate Congress to recognize the courage and good conduct of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the Confederate army. However, due to wartime shortages, the medals were not made, but the recipients' names were recorded in an Honor Roll for future reference. The cross's design was created by Mrs. Alexander S. Erwin in July 1898. It featured a cros...

Stewart Family

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This collection began in 1840 when slavery and commerce in slaves was common and progresses until 1966. During this period, the Civil War, or the War of the Northern Invasion, was fought and lost, and Reconstruction took place. People who had been slaves were freed to become oppressed colored people. Much wealth was lost in the Civil War. The South needed decades to recover economically and politically, and its resentment towards African Americans simmered and increased over a centu...

Waco Female College

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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...