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Lawrence O'B. Branch

Also found in catalogs as Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan) Branch.

1820–1862 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Orange gives the American Party's James B. Shepard a majority for Congress, but Democrat L. O'B. Branch wins the district In the congressional election, Orange County voted for the American (Know Nothing) candidate James B. Shepard over the Democrat Lawrence O'B. Branch by 135 votes, 932 to 797, with Shepard strongest at Hillsborough, Chapel Hill and Midway. Branch carried the Fourth District by a large majority. People: Lawrence O'B. Branch Place: Orange County · Also named: James B. ShepardSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 8, 1855, p. 2
  2. Orange gives L. O'B. Branch a majority as he keeps the Fourth District seat in Congress Orange County voted 729 for Democrat L. O'B. Branch and 572 for Linn B. Sanders of Johnston County, an independent Democrat who ran against Branch's bill to put thirty million dollars toward buying Cuba. Branch carried the district by about 3,300 votes on a light turnout, since no Whig ran, while Whigs took four of the state's eight seats. People: Lawrence O'B. Branch Place: Orange County · Also named: Linn B. SandersSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, August 10, 1859, p. 3
  3. The North Carolina Railroad stops carrying the mails and Hillsborough goes without In a pay dispute with the Post Office Department, the North Carolina, Raleigh and Gaston, and Charlotte and South Carolina railroads stopped carrying the mails on May 1, and Hillsborough received no eastern mail. The roads resumed service within the week at the request of Congressman L. O'B. Branch, and the Recorder said the town was without mails from Monday to Saturday. People: Lawrence O'B. Branch Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, May 2, 1860, p. 3

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Dispatch: General Ewell to General Branch, May 18, 1862

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 · 1862

Dispatch of 18 May 1862 from Confederate General Richard S. Ewell to General Lawrence O'B. Branch, written out by Ewell's chief of staff John M. Jones, telling Branch to stop his brigade and wait for further orders. Branch had represented North Carolina in Congress before the war. Three images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862.

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Dispatch: General Ewell to General Branch, May 19, 1862

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, 1817-1872 · 1862

Order sent on 19 May 1862 from General Richard S. Ewell to General Lawrence O'B. Branch, penned by John M. Jones, Ewell's chief of staff, directing Branch to march his brigade toward New Market, Virginia. Three images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. (Lawrence O'Bryan), 1820-1862.

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

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Harriss, Thomas Whitmel · 1795

Family and business letters of Thomas Whitmel Harriss, a tobacco planter at Littleton in Halifax County, 303 items from 1795, with letters to relatives in Tennessee and Mississippi and his son Thomas's letters of 1870 to 1891. Accounts give prices for cotton, tobacco and small goods, and other letters concern the University of North Carolina, Randolph-Macon College and temperance.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Branch, Lawrence O'B. -- 1820-1862.

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