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Vance, Zebulon B., 1830-1894 to Colonel [Mores?]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02469.29 Author/Creator: Vance, Zebulon B., 1830-1894 Place Written: Raleigh, North Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 11 May 1863 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 19.9 cm Order a Copy

Vance, Governor of North Carolina, asks Mores: "Why do you detain Smith's salt? If it is going to any point in N.C, we have no right to seize it." Inquires if General Daniel Harvey Hill, commander of the District of North Carolina, needs the salt for the army. Writes, "If so I have nothing to say, except he must seize it for himself if he wants it. Of course my officers have no right to stop anything unless it is going out contrary to the proclamation" (possibly referring to Vance's refusal to allow supplies smuggled into North Carolina by blockade runners to be given to other states until North Carolinians had their share). On verso, contains a note written by General Hill, date unspecified: "Mores tells me that this man lied about the salt. He impressed it upon the statement that the salt was intended for Virginia. A speculator has no scruple about lying." Written on State of North Carolina, Executive Department stationery.

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894
Hill, Daniel H., 1821-1889

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