c1862 id'd ,Salisbury North Carolina Lawyer & Mason
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Superb identified Civil War period carte de visite of Luke Blackmer of Salisbury,North Carolina taken by Watson's Photographic & Fine Art Gallery of Raleigh,North Carolina with their backmark and tax stamp.The subject is id'd in period pencil on the front and the reverse along with an ink inscription that I cannot decipher.Blackmer was an Attorney,a Mason who built a school for orphans,and helped represent Confederate soldiers wives who revolted in Rowan County,North Carolina due to lack of food and assistance in 1863. Wielding axes and hatchets, a group of forty or fifty soldiers' wives entered Salisbury, North Carolina, on March 18, 1863, intent on obtaining flour and salt. The women approached the shops of Michael Brown, John Ennis, S. Frankfort, K. Sprague, David Weil, and Thomas Foster, merchants whom the destitute women believed had speculated in necessities. The rioting women offered the vendors government prices, about one-half the market value, in exchange for the desired commodities. When the merchants refused, the women broke down Brown's shop door with hatchets and threatened other storekeepers who offered resistance. After collecting thirteen barrels of flour, one of molasses, two sacks of salt, and twenty dollars in cash, the women moved on to Confederate government stores at the North Carolina Railroad Depot, w they
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