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1.Was “The Yellow Rose†a Tar Heel? by Parramore, Thomas C. The State Vol. 41 Issue 10, Mar 1974
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North Carolinians like James Morgan and Bob Potter both played integral roles in Gen. Santa Anna's defeat in the Texas War of Independence. Other contributors include the mulatto slave-girl named Emily D. West, subject of the popular song “The Yellow Rose of Texas.†Accounts say West kept Gen. Santa Anna preoccupied and off guard during the outset of the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.
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North Carolina is well-known today for team sports, including basketball and football. The state was also known in the 1800s and 1900s for its role in horse racing. It is not well-remembered, however, that antebellum North Carolina sports entertainment included fistic gladiators, a form of boxing popular during this period.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p55-62
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21251
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Stephen Barton, Jr. moved to Hertford County, North Carolina in 1856 to establish a mill village based on the lumber trade with Norfolk and Northern ports. The brother of lauded humanitarian Clara Barton, Stephen's mill thrived until commercial insecurity in 1860 caused by looming conflict and Barton's neutrality during the American Civil War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 1, Jan 1974,
p22-40 , il, por, f
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21289
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This article examines the history of the 'North Carolina Historical Review' from 1924 to 1974. Founded with state funds, the NCHR initially had little in the way of readers and contributors. Financially strained by the Great Depression and plagued by reduced contributions during World War II, the NCHR received a post-war boom.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 4, Oct 1974,
p361-378 , por, f
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12283
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Pre-Civil War slave rebellions were not uncommon in North Carolina. Across northeastern North Carolina in the spring of 1802 rumors of a slave uprising abounded. \"The Coleraine Letter\"Â and other plots, real or imagined, launched the worst insurrection panic in North Carolina history. The plot, however, was uncovered. Trials in Hertford and Bertie counties resulted in the hanging of eleven slaves and the whipping and deportation of others.
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21035
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This article examines documented accounts and cases of a disease referred to as \"yaws\" in an attempt to determine whether it was contracted as extensively as some accounts make it seem, or if it was just one among many health problems faced by the early settlers. An important distinction between two diseases known as \"yaws\" is made, with one being a topical disease restricted to rural areas and populations whose living conditions, knowledge of sanitation, and personal hygiene are rudimentary. The other was known at the time of press as endemic (or non-venereal) syphilis. Details of period symptoms, diagnoses, and identification of the types of \"yaws\" as well as modern distinctions made by the author based on his research are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 48 Issue 1, Jan 1971,
p44-52, por
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21017
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This article finds a new source for material relating to the history of North Carolina in New England and New York mariner records who were involved in trade with North Carolina. Looking primarily at two sets of documents relating to the Foote family of Guilford, Connecticut, details of trade, nautical routes, and coastal towns are included as well as information on the Foote family and their business.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 46 Issue 4, Oct 1969,
p365-376, il, f
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21169
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From its home port of Edenton, North Carolina the brig 'Fair American' was to make war on British shipping during the American Revolution as a privateer. During its maiden voyage, it was taken by a British frigate and its crew imprisoned at Forten Gaol near Gosport, England. While in Forten Gaol, the crew of 'Fair American' participated in one of the largest prisoner escapes of the American Revolution. About 60 sailors escaped the prison in a tunnel dug into a nearby house, while most were recaptured within days, the captain and lieutenant of 'Fair American' made it back to Boston and back into military service for the war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968,
p349-356, f
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10383
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A rather inconspicuous man named Eli Foote is buried at Winton with two headstones from both sides of his family. Foote is the grandfather of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Foote had traveled from New York to Hertford County to trade New England products in North Carolina markets. Eli and his brother Larry found strong markets for their products and decided to remain. Foote died in 1792 and was buried with a headstone from his New York family and his wife's North Carolina family.
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John Alexander was one of forty-plus Anglican missionaries from England that came to the state when it was just a colony. The article offers a short bibliographic sketch about Alexander's life in Scotland and Anglican activities in the state and along the southeastern Atlantic Coast. Alexander's life and career offers a look at the efforts and struggles of Anglican missionaries not only to represent and establish the Church of England in the colony, but to survive the hardships of colonial life.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 43 Issue 3, July 1966,
p305-315, f
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20936
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This article looks at the life of the 460-ton steamer SOUTHERN STAR built and launched by Jesse Jackson at Murfreesboro in 1857. Details of the ship's service as a government steamer under the new name of CRUSADER, her time helmed by Lt. John Newland Maffitt, service to the Union under the command of Lt. T. Augustus Craven during the Civil War, and the end of her life in commercial service on the west coast is included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 42 Issue 3, July 1965,
p335-344, il, por, f
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Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun, a revolutionary weapon first used during the Civil War. The author discusses Gatling's family history, his early life in Hertford County, and his other entrepreneurial endeavors before he created the Gatling gun. The original patent and schematics of the Gatling gun are included in the article.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 1, Jan 1964,
p54-61, f
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20826
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Elkanah Watson was a notable noted 19th century author who spent two years in eastern North Carolina as a planter-merchant. During this period, the state was grappling over the issue of ratifying the newly written constitution. The author examines primary documentation from Watson's manuscript collection to argue that the author played a significant role in supporting state Federalists and the eventual ratification of the constitution by state representatives.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 4, Oct 1964,
p448-463, f
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20464
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Although North Carolina cast her fortunes with those of the Confederacy in 1861, it was not until February 1862 that the Civil War was seriously felt in the eastern region of the state. During that time, Winton, a village on the Chowan River, was burned by Union troops. This event resulted in the disgrace of an entire regiment as an object in the futility of war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 1, Jan 1962,
p18-31, f
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