Zilpha Dungee recounts that while she was a single woman and "the war between the North and the South was raging, in the autumn of 1864," a group of men came to her house and forcibly took her fine stallion "under the pretence of delegated power to impress such animals." Following her marriage to Thomas Dungee, a "free man of color" with eight children, in 1865, she and her husband brought a suit against the horse thieves. They won a judgment for two hundred and fifty dollars. Now she charges that her husband, who has collected part of the judgment money, had an affair with Eliza Wilson, the wife of William Wilson, a man of color. He has in fact abandoned her altogether. She seeks to secure the unpaid portion of the judgment, and asks for a divorce and alimony.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
