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2661
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Emeline Pigott of Morehead City not only cared for wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, but also spied on Union troops and delivered war supplies for the Southern cause.
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20925
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Rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba persisted from 1868-1898 and during this period America was urged to support the Cuban uprising. The South, and especially North Carolina opposed military involvement because suffered so greatly from the recently ended Civil War and was in the midst of Reconstruction. Looking at newspaper accounts, the author analyzes the state's response to escalating military actions and Cuba and North Carolinians' reluctance to back a war with Spain.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Jan 1966,
p43-65, f
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9929
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Abbey House of Franklinton was one of the many civilian women who voluntarily nursed the sick and wounded during the Civil War. Originally featured in Land We Love (May/June 1867), a monthly magazine edited by former Confederate General D. H. Hill, “Aunt†Abby traveled without charge on the South's railroads and hitchhiked to battlefields to offer her assistance. She was also a regular visitor to the rail yards of Franklinton, greeting the trains that brought wounded soldiers back to North Carolina.
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The Battle of Bentonville was fought on March 19-22, 1865. The battle can be divided into three parts, and this article focuses on the opening phase fought March 19 and the Union generals involved. The officers were William Passmore Carlin, James Dale Morgan, and Alphesus S. William. General Joseph E. Johnston was the overall commander of Confederate forces.
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13330
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The battles at Fort Hatteras, Fort Clark, and Fort Oregon, during the Civil War, involved thousands of men and zero casualties. Portrayed in a series of articles and illustrations published in Harper's Weekly, some 715 Confederate men surrendered in August and September, 1861.
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Belle Boyd was admired by men, sneered at by women, galloped through enemy lines with messages for Stonewall Jackson, hounded by Secretary of War Stanton, shown clemency by President Lincoln and eventually became a peacetime stage celebrity. Such was the life and times of Belle Boyd, the woman considered second only to Rose O'Neal Greenhow as the Confederacy's most successful female spy. Boyd was twice captured by Federal authorities and imprisoned both times. Her first capture was on orders from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton. After her release, Boyd sought out Confederate President Jefferson Davis and gained his consent for her to carry important dispatches to Europe. Her second capture came on this trip, as her vessel, the GREYHOUND, was captured by a Federal cruiser for attempting to smuggle a large shipment of cotton out of Wilmington for sale in Europe.
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9157
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On April 16, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at Bennett Place. Now a state historical park and museum, all of the main buildings at Bennett Place have been restored, and plans for a visitor's center are underway. The surrender documents are on display as are pictures of Atlanta after it was burned.
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The Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Johnston County has acquired 3.5 acres of the battlefield. The acreage contains trenches forming part of the main Union line during the battle.
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Bentonville Battleground was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 19, 1996, by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. The Civil War battle was the largest ever fought in the state.
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The Civil War Trails program is a three-state, federally funded program that seeks to increase recognition of Civil War history at sites in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. In North Carolina the new driving trails recall the state's pivotal role in the Civil War. Over forty-one of the state's counties participate in the program, and one hundred and five markers stand along the first section of the trail. Markers include photos, illustrations, maps, and text. The second stage of trail development will focus on the war's action in the western part of the state.
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A mural that depicts the Battle of Gettysburg is portrayed on a canvas that is 410 feet long. The author discusses the artist’s methods of production and inspirations for creating such large works of art.
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Blockade running during the Civil War was a common sight off of the coast of North Carolina. The second in a two-part series by THE STATE, the first half may be found in the March 1955 issue, Volume 22, Number 22, pages 11-12.
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Part two of a two-part narrative, Wilkinson was in command of the ROBERT E. LEE (ship) and discusses what it was like to bring his ship through the Union blockading fleet in Wilmington during the Civil War.
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Taken from the Monroe Journal (no citation), no military unit left a better record than the 26th North Carolina regiment, which at Gettysburg lost more men in actual numbers and in percentage of those engaged, than any other regiment in the both of the armies.
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This article recounts the time when the Confederate Navy confronted a Yankee fleet on the open seas outside of the Cape Fear River. CSS RALEIGH (ship) was used in an effort to clear Onslow Bay of Union blockaders.
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