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“capture the marauders”

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch January 17, 1863: Tory Outrage in Western North Carolina. –On Thursday night, 8th inst., a band of to [?] from the mountains of East Tennessee, and Laurel, N. C., attacked the village of Marshal, Madison … Continue reading

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Parson Shuts Down

We’ve seen evidence that the Lincoln administration has been shutting down opposition newspapers. 150 years ago today the news made it to Gotham that a similar event occurred in the Confederacy. Parson William Brownlow had announced he was suspending publication … Continue reading

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