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While few of the images of the soldiers have been digitized, this one has, of one of the companies of the 2nd North Carolina.

Dear Sir,I write to you on behalf of Mrs. John A. Thees of this city, who is a widow with a small family and whose chief support is her boy Geo. B. Thees now just 19 years old and a member of Company K, Capt. D. McRae of Wilmington, forming a part of…

Sir:      I desire to reccomend to your favorable consideration Captain J. B. Bellinger, Quartermaster's Department, for appointment to a higher grade as Depot Quartermaster. Captian Bellinger is one of the most energetic and competent officers I…

Army officers have given up the idea that a campaign in Cuba is to be of the short and sweet order. Scarcely one of them holds the opinion that the United States forces will land, march triumphantly and uninterruptedly to Havana, carry that city by…

The statement is made on good authority that when the troops of the United States land in Cuba for the purpose of driving out the tyranny of Spain from that island, they will receive comparatively little help from the insurgent forces. Undoubtedly…

Washington, April 18th - Representative Hull, of Iowa, chairman of the house committee on Military Affairs, will tomorrow introduce an administration Bill authorizing the president to issue a call for volunteers to the number of 60,000 or 70,000 men.…

Uncle Sam added another regiment yesterday to its fighting force.
The 2nd North Carolina Regiment of the United States volunteers is a reality, the news liars and scandal mongers to the contrary. It is a regiment of which North Carolina may well…