]> pc_bacot_rh_letters Finding Aid of the R. H. Bacot Letters, 1864 - 1865 Processed by: Don Lennon; machine-readable finding aid created by: Dietra Stanley &hdrNcDncsa; 2005 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: November, 2005 Description is in English Finding Aid of the R. H. Bacot Letters, 1864 - 1865 North Carolina State Archives &tpNcDncsa; Descriptive Summary North Carolina State Archives. Bacot, Richard H. R. H. Bacot Letters, 1864 - 1865 P.C. 1207.1 Materials in English 7 For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives. Richard H. Bacot served as an officer of C.S.S. Charleston and C.S.S. Neuse during the Civil War. His letters describe military operations in and around Kinston, N.C., during 1864 and early 1865. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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[Identification of item], PC.1207, R. H. Bacot Letters, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

 Acquisitions Information

August 18, 1964, letters of R. H. Bacot, l864-l865, 7 items. Given by Confederate Centennial Commission, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Processed by Don Lennon, January 1967

Encoded by Dietra Stanley, November, 2005

 Biographical Note Richard H. Bacot served as an officer of C.S.S. Charleston and C.S.S. Neuse during the Civil War. Collection Overview

Richard H. Bacot's letters describe military operations in and around Kinston, N. C., during 1864 and early 1865. The first letter predates his assignment to Neuse and describes the January, 1864, attack upon the Union forces at New Bern. The remainder of the correspondence tells the construction of the Neuse-ance (as he termed it), grounding of the ship on a sandbar and its later refloating, prospects for winning the war, departure of troops from Kinston, destruction of Neuse, and the 1865 campaign in North Carolina (Wilmington, Bentonville, and Goldsboro). Other subjects of interest include social activities in and around Kinston; family news; and the discovery of the Heroes of America, a subversive organization made up of followers of W. W. Holden.

Typescript copies of the letters have been prepared, and they are filed with the originals in the collection.

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Subject Terms Heroes of America (Society) Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892. Letters (correspondence) Neuse (Ship) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life. Geographic Terms Kinston (N.C.) Related Collections

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us.

See also: Abstracts from this correspondence appear in an article by William N. Still, Jr. titled The Career of the Confederate Ironclad <emph render="italic">Neuse</emph>, in the North Carolina Historical Review, XLIII (1966), 1-13. Several other letters of Bacot, written during the period when he served aboard C.S.S. Charleston, are in the Caroliniana Library, U.S.C., Columbia, South Carolina.