$4 a month
Following the Civil War, the Federal Government established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid former slaves. One of the services this...
Body light
The U.S. Coast Guard constructed lighthouses as part of its maritime safety program. Body, now spelled Bodie, light is on North Carolina’s outer banks.
Cash crop in the field
This is an August 1917 photograph of a tobacco field in rural Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina.
Compiled service record for John M. Beck
Between 1903 and 1927, the War Department created compiled service records to minimize handling and wear of the original records. A single form contains information...
Crop of flue-cured tobacco
This scene in rural Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, shows the tobacco crop almost ready for harvest. Flue-cured tobacco processing is preferred to air-cured...
“Distributing captured clothing to the needy”
When Union troops captured the Confederate city of New Berne, North Carolina, on March 14, 1862, they also took over a large amount of clothing stockpiled there. This...
Hired for labor
Abner E. Lipscomb of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, entered into this labor agreement with many people including two families that had seven children under the...