{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21286602","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21286602","state":"North Carolina","county":"Wake","location_type":"County","file_year":1866,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":3,"end_month":10,"end_year":1866,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Returning home following Lee's surrender after fighting for four years in the Confederate Army, John H. Green discovered that his wife had had an affair with Jesse Hopson, a black man.  In the summer of 1865, she gave birth to \"a negro girl child.\"  Green seeks a divorce.","subjects":[{"subject":"Adultery"},{"subject":"Divorce"},{"subject":"Civil War, impact of"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"},{"subject":"Illegitimacy "},{"subject":"Veterans"}]}]}