The southern mind under union rule
the diary of James Rumley, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1862-1865
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James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the Ne…
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