The Raleigh STANDARD 2 Sept 1863, reporting the meeting of 21 August 1863.
Cousin Robert Carpenter has written an important book on resistance inside North Carolina to secession and to the pursuit of the war--GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE CIVIL WAR (McFarland, 2016). He shows that slave-owners, particular owners of many slaves, held the highest offices and pushed the state into secession. It is not well known that especially in the mountainous area of NW North Carolina resistance to the war continued. These were not slave owners, for the most part, and were loyal to the Union and some of them dared to be outspoken, and some of these brave people survived. Cousin Absalom here lived into the 20th century. Some of us living cousins dare to speak out, and some of us have paid for that. Here is an inspiration.
All Rudisills ought to be proud of Absalom Rhyne--20 October 1815 to 31 December 1901.
Cousin Robert Carpenter has written an important book on resistance inside North Carolina to secession and to the pursuit of the war--GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE CIVIL WAR (McFarland, 2016). He shows that slave-owners, particular owners of many slaves, held the highest offices and pushed the state into secession. It is not well known that especially in the mountainous area of NW North Carolina resistance to the war continued. These were not slave owners, for the most part, and were loyal to the Union and some of them dared to be outspoken, and some of these brave people survived. Cousin Absalom here lived into the 20th century. Some of us living cousins dare to speak out, and some of us have paid for that. Here is an inspiration.
All Rudisills ought to be proud of Absalom Rhyne--20 October 1815 to 31 December 1901.
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