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The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was a crucial part of the Confederate supply line for Richmond. In July, Union forces focused their attention on severing the railroad bridge at Weldon. Led by General Matt W. Ransom, 200 Confederates held off Union Colonel Samuel P. Spears and his 2,000 men at the bridge. Having been surprised while swimming, many Confederate soldiers fought the battle without clothes.
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10608
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North Carolina's earliest railroads were plagued by mechanical failures that often resulted in wrecks, derailments, and deaths. Even after the introduction of steam engines, many tracks and rails were constructed completely of wood or, later, wooden rails capped with thin strips of metal. The wooden rails would often fail outright, and the metal-capped rails often lost their tops, which would then bend upwards, piercing the floor of the rail car. The grandson of Governor Edward Dudley was seriously injured and his nurse killed by an unfastened rail in 1845.
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10690
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The Weldon Canal, which was built around the Roanoke Rapids in the Roanoke River in 1834, brought about important economic changes in northeastern North Carolina, helping arrest the mass exodus of the population and bringing prosperity to the area. Due to the difficulties inherent in shipping commodities from the Piedmont section of the state, the legislature granted the Roanoke Navigation Company a charter in 1812 to build a canal that would bypass the rapids. The canal took 22 years to complete at an estimated cost of $395,000. Due to increasing competition for shipping business from railroads, the canal corporation declared bankruptcy in 1870.
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10783
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Columbus and Brunswick Counties in Southeastern North Carolina are home to three unusual varieties of insectivorous plants. The Venus Fly Trap, the pitcher plant (Sarracenia), and sundews (Drosera) have each developed unique methods of capturing small animals and insects that once trapped, seldom escape. Brilliant colors, savory tastes, and perfumed aromas combine to lure even the most cautious creatures to their death.
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10951
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A flock of blackbirds, numbering upwards of twenty million, have descended on the town of Abbotsburg in Bladen County. Causey discusses how citizens are coping with the invaders.
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