Skip to main content

William T. Bain papers

Thumbnail for William T. Bain papers
View
@ Duke University

Bain, William T

Description

Family letters of Bain, his wife, and children to his daughter, Mollie Bain Bitting of Germantown, North Carolina. Topics include Bain's Masonic interests, difficulties with slaves, the "Black Republicanism" of the North, a speech by Stephen A. Douglas (1860), hopes for a strong Confederacy, and meetings of the legislature. Also includes a letter to Mrs. Bitting from a friend in Petersburg, Va., describing the new public buildings there, and a letter to Lewis Bitting from a friend in Georgia describing his drugstore business.
Type:
Text
Format:
Correspondence
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

Duke University

Record Harvested From

North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Keywords

  1. Bitting, Lewis
  2. Bitting, Mollie Bain
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. Description And Travel
  6. Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813 1861
  7. Drugstores
  8. Freemasonry
  9. Georgia
  10. History
  11. North Carolina
  12. Petersburg (Va.)
  13. Slaver
  14. Slavery

Related Content

Our state Our state (Greensboro, N.C.);Our state magazine;Our state : North Carolina;Down home in North Carolina Our state Our state (Greensboro, N.C.);Our state magazine;Our state : North Carolina;Down home in North Carolina Diary kept Laura Beecher Comer, documenting her domestic and social life. Obey the laws and support the Constitution of the United States Obey the laws and support the Constitution of the United States - flag only Marrow in the bone draft and notes Our State Our state (Greensboro, N.C.);Our state magazine;Our state : North Carolina;Down home in North Carolina Un grand peuple qui se relève Letters to and from members of the Green family of Bibb County and Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The uprising of a great people The United States in 1861 États-Unis en 1861 Les États Unis en 1861 : un grand peuple qui se relève The uprising of a great people The United States in 1861. To which is added A word of peace on the difference between England and the United States Grand peuple qui se relève English 1862 Letters from members of the Charles G. Gunter family living in Brazil during Reconstruction. The uprising of a great people The United States in 1861. To which is added A word of peace on the difference between England and the United States Grand peuple qui se relève English 1862 William Henry Shepard from G. C. Noble Envelope depicting S.A. Douglas and the American flag Notes on African Americans in Sangamon County, Illinois Notes on Abraham Lincoln Executive and legislative documents [1864; 1865; 1866] Private laws of the State of North-Carolina, passed by the General Assembly [1864-1865] Laws, etc.; Private laws of the state of North Carolina; Private laws of North Carolina
Download JSON