Papers, 1864-ca. 1933.

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Papers, 1864-ca. 1933.

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Memories of Civil War events in the life of an eastern North Carolina child, Matilda Lamb, daughter of W.G. Lamb, of Elizabeth City, during the fifth through ninth years of her life, written much later in life as Mrs. W.B. Morton, of Washington, N.C. The memoir describes her life beginning with evacuation from Elizabeth City at the time it was shelled by Federal troops in 1862, further evacuation from Williamston when it was ransacked during Foster's raid in 1862, and as an evacuee living near Tarboro during the years 1863 through 1865. Operations in eastern North Carolina, Confederate courier service, and Fort Branch are touched on, as are soldiers' lives, homelife, and relations between Federal forces in the area with whom her family come into contact. The collection contains both the original and a typescript of the memoir. In addition is the original obituary for the writer's older brother (Col. John Calhoun Lamb, C.S.A., mortally wounded in May 1864 at Ware Bottom Church, Va.) and a xerox copy of a May 1933 letter written by Mrs. Morton to her brother, George Charles Lamb, who figures in some of her adventures recounted in the memoir.

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