[Confederate Letter] Hillsboro Military Academy
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John George Hanner (cadet in the North Carolina school) March 31, 1865, to his sister, 4 pp. 8vo: comments on deserters ("they should shoot every one of them"), older students have been ordered to join a raiding party under Stoneman at Salisbury but have to wait at the depot for train with room to carry them, he remains at the school with about 80 younger cadets; several students ran away, one who returned expelled from the school anyway; describes gun emplacements and drilling around Hillsboro, under direction of Lt. Col. Pemberton ("the hero of Vicksburg")
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Old damp damage, with some softening of the ink and loss of size from the paper.
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[Confederate Letter] Hillsboro Military Academy
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