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This article offers a Union perspective on the Battle of Olustee, Florida. It was featured in the Peninsula Newspaper on March 3, 1864 and copied from the New South Newspaper,

Handwritten letter on paper.

Duke K. Bettis states that he will send his family paper, stamps, and envelopes to write once a week. He also explains that he is sending money and tells his wife who they need to pay some debts to. Transcription of…

Call frequently changed his political affiliations, being in turn a Democrat, Whig, Know-Nothing, and Constitutional Unionist. As the country lurched toward Civil War in the late 1850s and early 1860s, he remained an ardent Unionist. Though no…

Newspaper clipping from The Florida Sentinel forecasting that the recapture of Charleston will happen before mid-November, 1863.