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RARE JOURNAL RELATING TO NORTH CAROLINA'S SECESSION FROM THE UNION. Civil War - North Carolina Secession Journal of the Secret Session of the Convention of May 20th 1861, called to consider the relations of the State of North Carolina, with the other States..." 50p. in bound volume. Collected by Captain William H. Mickle of the 134th New York, probably during his "visit" to Raleigh. Beginning with the decision of South Carolina to leave the Union in December 1860, the legislatures of slave state after slave state convened to decide whether to follow the palmetto fire-eaters. Divided geographically and economically, North Carolina was one of the last southern states to approve secession, narrowly voting to leave the Union in May 1861, one month after her neighbor to the south initiated hostilities by firing on Fort Sumter. The "Journal" consists of minutes of the state legislature in North Carolina recorded in the dramatic days between May 23-June 21, 1861, and February 1862, as the state took their rebellious plunge. In concise fashion, the entries in the journal document the political efforts of the state to organize their rebellion, to authorize use of their military, direct defenses and coopt the resources needed. Typical is the entry for May 28, 1861, in which the legislators, responding to rumors of Federal ships blockading the state's ports by demanding that the governor report on the"actual condition of Forts Caswell and Johnston, and other defenses at the mouth of Cape Fear River, to resist the encroachments of the enemy. What is the condition, character and number of the guns in said Forts... what is the number of troops, whether volunteers or regulars... the character of their arms, the state of their discipline, the efficiency and equipments, what provision has been made for their food, its character and quantity, for their comfort in sleeping and protection from inclement weather... what provision has been made for their religious care and instruction, in camp or barracks..." Even in fomenting rebellion, these politicians were detail-oriented. Other entries record motions to seize telegraph and rail lines, to cede the arsenals to the Confederate government, to work out the details of offering the state's troops to the Confederate army, and orders to send the military to counter the federal "invasion" at Port Royal. The "journal" consists of a single volume bound in quarter leather over marbled boards, with some notes added in later pages by its former owner, William H. Mickle (among others). The first 31 pages consist of minutes of the North Carolina legislature, presumably kept by a member who attended the meetings, but not, apparently in an official capacity for the state. These are followed by 9p. of parables and notes in Mickle's hand (mostly religious in nature), with an additional 6p. relating to the legislature at the end. Mickle, an officer in the 134th New York Infantry, apparently snatched the volume somewhere in North Carolina in 1865 when his regiment was taking part in the March Through the Carolinas. The volume needs rebacking (the spine is absent), but the pages are complete, clean, and in good condition. A unique opportunity to acquire an outstanding and historically important piece of Confederate Civil War history with intriguing provenance. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 4:00-5:00pm EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME ON MAY 10, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 7000-9000)
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