<hi rend="bold">Letter written by Charles Phillips, November 23, 1864:</hi> Electronic Edition. Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889 Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Bari Helms Images scanned by Bari Helms Text encoded by Sarah Ficke First Edition, 2005 ca. 10K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 University of North Carolina Papers (#40005), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Letter written by Charles Phillips, November 23, 1864 Charles Phillips 2 pages, 2 page images 1864 Call number 40005 (University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 </bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language id="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="unc_history"> <list> <item> Any special keywords assigned for this project </item> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change> <date>2005-11-11,</date> <respStmt> <name>Sarah Ficke</name> <resp/> </respStmt> <item>finished TEI/XML encoding.</item> </change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text id="unc09-61"> <body> <div1 type="official letter"> <pb id="unc09-61-p01" n="1"/> <head>Letter written by <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person">Charles Phillips</name>, November 23, 1864</head> <opener> <dateline> <name key="name0000165" reg="Chapel Hill, NC" type="place">Chapel Hill, N.C.</name><lb/> <date>Thursday, Nov<hi rend="sup">r</hi> 23<hi rend="sup">d</hi> 1864</date> </dateline> <salute>My dear Sir,</salute> </opener> <p>A new panic is hereabouts. The impressment of sorghum syrup, wheat, beef, &c., is daily expected. M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003185" reg="Purefoy, George Washington" type="person" rend="yes">Purefoy</name> told me that he was expecting the officer every hour at his house (to-day). He wanted to sell me syrup at $10. Gov<hi rend="sup">t</hi> is giving $5. Now to me this movement so early in this neighborhood will interfere with the life of the <name key="name0001146" reg="University of North Carolina" type="organization">University</name> more seriously than the conscribing of our students. For if our eating houses cannot get food for our students, even those under 17 cannot come or cannot stay here. M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003185" reg="Purefoy, George Washington" type="person">Purefoy</name> says he is resolved that hereafter he will have nothing on and that Gov<hi rend="sup">t.</hi> can impress but <gap reason="[unrecovered]"/>. He will continue to make corn<pb id="unc09-61-p02" n="2"/> but nothing else. Is there no mode of stopping this process here? With the food in the immediate neighborhood gone & no horses for hauling in from a distance, we town-folks will be in a serious dilemma before the year is out. The officials of Gov<hi rend="sup">t</hi> ought to be very discreet in a work that is at all times terrific to the people.</p> <p>Examples are sometimes easier to follow than precepts. So my walk to M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> <name key="pn0003185" reg="Purefoy, George Washington" type="person">Purefoy's</name> revealed that the impressing of wood from the lands of the <name key="name0000107" reg="Board of Trustees" type="organization">Trustees</name> goes on bravely. The students that room out of the buildings are in a bad fix. <name key="pn0000510" reg="Fetter, Manuel" type="person" rend="yes">Prof. Fetter</name> says he cannot haul for them. If we (Faculty folks) c<hi rend="sup">d</hi> get our hauling paid in wood, there might be some relief to such folks, by making the haulers sell to our students, or by some other such regulation.</p> <p>We are well. I wish I could add hopeful of getting <hi rend="underscore">our</hi> desires.</p> <closer> <salute rend="right">Yours sincerely,</salute> <signed> <name key="pn0001357" reg="Phillips, Charles" type="person">Charles Phillips</name> </signed> </closer> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI.2>