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37258
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New acquisitions to Tyron Palace’s exhibition collection included items that needed extra care, hence on display during special exhibitions. The exhibits spotlighted were a Magic Lantern Projector, 19th century; a Civil War-era Powder Horn; a Civil War-era folding chair used by Captain Frederick Cox Roberts; a liquor jug, 19th century, from A.H. Holton Retail Liquor.
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37637
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An approach General Sherman became famous for—high risks actions yielding great victories—worked on the battlefield and off. On the battlefield illustrations took him and his combined forces, the Army of the Tennessee and Georgia, through Goldsboro, Fayetteville, and Wilmington before reaching South Carolina’s capital by February 1865. It was in Columbia the battle Sherman believed hastened the end of the war took place, one that, like his march through Atlanta, culminated in a great fire.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 9, February 2015,
p151-152, 154, 156, 158, 160
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34656
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William Forstchen’s novel “One Second After” focuses on a fictional post-apocalyptic event that takes place in Black Mountain, North Carolina. After an electromagnetic pulse devastates the entire United States, the small town reverts to a militaristic, patriarchal society that secludes itself from the rest of the world. Amende notes the “Southern” traditions that the town leaders continuously attribute to their success of survival: Christian political and religious beliefs, military values, and keeping away “outsiders”.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014,
p68-77, il, por, f
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34657
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Charles W. Chestnutt was one of the few African Americans to make their way into the white publishing circuit. His work was highly critical of white abuse and power struggle of the South, which Baggett argues is the reason his work was not as far-reaching or successful as Booker T. Washington, another highly regarded African American writer at time.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014,
p80-94, il, por, f
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36115
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A subject almost one hundred and fifty years old found a newer audience through Gerald Prokopowicz podcasts, Civil War Talk Radio. The stereotypical dry, dull history lecture didn’t apply in this case, due to his Siskel and Ebert style discourse.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 12 Issue 3, Spr 2014,
p12
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37606
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Chronicled is Wilmington’s Fort Fisher on December 24th, 1864, and January 13th, 1865. Key players in the battles hinting the Confederacy’s end: Union Generals Sherman and Grant; Confederate Generals Lamb, Whiting, and Bragg. Factors contributing to the outcome were General Whiting’s garrison outnumbered 6 to 1 during the second assault and General Bragg’s belief in Fort Fisher’s invulnerability.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 7, December 2014,
p193-194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 204, por
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Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Siege, 1864-1865; Fort Fisher (New Hanover County); Fort Fisher (New Hanover County)--Description and travel; Sherman, William T., 1820-1891; Grant, Ulysses S. ; Lamb, William, 1835-1909; Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865; Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876; Terry, Alfred Howe; Porter, David D., 1813-1891; Civil War
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38151
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Childhood contact with government officials, along with marriage to a man with a post in the US State Department, made Rose O’Neal Greenhow apt for her role in the Civil War. As a slave owner and staunch anti-abolitionist, she was a natural fit as a Confederate spy. Even during her 1861 house arrest, she shared the Union Army’s secrets with top military brass in Richmond. Ranking within the Confederate government and a government post abroad, along with her memoir’s publication, assured that her death by sea would not sink Greenhow to obscurity.
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Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 1814-1864; Civil War; Civil War--spies; Slavery; Anti-abolitionists; Greenhow, Maria Rosetta O'Neal, 1814-1864; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893; Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895; Blockade runners; CONDOR (blockade runner); Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington); Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891
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38267
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William Thomas is perhaps more widely known for being the captain of the last Confederate unit to surrender at the end of the Civil War and six term state senator. However, he may be remembered just as well for his advocacy of North Carolina’s eastern Cherokee. This can be perceived in support of the Oconaluftee of Washington’s fight for exemption from removal by the government in 1835, election as chief of the eastern Cherokee in 1838, and election in 1862 as captain of a Cherokee troop whom he inspired to enlist in the Confederate army.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Sept 2012,
p60-62, 64, 66, 68, 70, 72
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Thomas, William Holland 1805-1893; Civil War; North Carolina--Eastern Cherokee; Oconaluftee; Yonaguska, ca. 1759-1839; Cherokee Indians--Relocation; Western North Carolina Railroad; Secessionists--North Carolina ; Cherokee Nations--Lufty Cherokees; Trail of Tears (1838-1839); Junaluska, ca. 1779-1858; Stoga, John Astooga, d. 1862; Astoogatogeh, d. 1862; Wil Usdi, 1805-1893
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35400
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The third in a series of relatively unknown oceanic escapades that took place during the early Civil War focused on the maritime blockades by Beaufort natives Captain John Beveridge and Josiah Pender, as well as Harker’s Island natives Matthew Goodring and Lieutenant Whittle. While in command of the CSS Nashville, Beveridge and Pender successfully executed four blockades in 1862. That same year, Goodring and Whittle had one successful blockade.
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25364
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David Long, an associate professor at ECU, describes his class on the history of the Civil War as well as his knowledge on Abraham Lincoln.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Winter 2003,
p16-17, il, por
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27899
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Major General Lawrence O’Bryan Branch, was one of the South’s most promising military and potential political leaders. As the Civil War progressed, Confederate forces suffered a shortage of officers and Branch was given command of a North Carolina brigade comprising five regiments. After the Battle of New Bern and numerous skirmishes, Branch was killed on the battlefield of Sharpsburg.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 5 Issue 1, May 1992,
p12-19, il, bibl
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24458
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The author presents women from North Carolina during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and how they participated in protecting their state and property. For example, some women spied on British troops for American soldiers during the Revolutionary War.
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24465
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Confederate First Lady Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, was in Raleigh in 1862 during General Joseph Johnston’s attack on Richmond, Virginia. This article uses primary sources to recount what the First Lady experienced as she worried for her husband’s safety in Richmond.
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24476
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The Battle of Fort Branch took place in July 1862, and the battle is recreated every November for three days at the Fort Branch Re-Enactment and Living History Program.
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31721
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The son of the famous African missionary met his untimely fate in Salisbury. After changing his name and joining the Union Army as a substitute, Robert Livingstone was captured in VA and sent to a confederate prison in Salisbury, NC. There he died in a possible escape attempt and was buried in an unmarked mass grave.
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