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This collection of newspaper sketches recounts the closing ninety days of the Civil War in North Carolina, combining eyewitness narrative, official correspondence, and commentary. It traces military movements and occupations, the surrender process, and episodes of plunder, lawlessness, and prison conditions; records correspondence among state governors and generals; compares commanders' conduct with historical precedents; and reflects on civilian hardship, partisan divisions, and institutional strains such as the state university. The account interweaves local incidents, trial testimony, and appeals for justice to preserve a record of events, decisions, and moral questions that accompanied the war's end in the state.
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