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Through her prominent position in Washington, DC society, Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow was able to gather information of value to the South during the Civil War. Imprisoned by the North, then later deported to Richmond, she went to Europe in 1862 to try to win support for the Southern cause. On her return in 1864, her ship ran aground off Wilmington, and she drowned attempting to reach shore.
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2.The Rise and Fall of a Confederate Ship by Blackwelder, Jerry The State Vol. 58 Issue 4, Sept 1990
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The C. S. S. Neuse, a Southern ironclad built near Kinston during the Civil War, never saw combat. Measuring 158 feet long and 55 feet in width, the ship was protected by four inches of iron on its hull. It took from 1862 to 1864 to built the ship because of a shortage of workers and materials. When the Neuse was ordered to battle at New Bern, it stuck on a sandbar and later returned to port. It was scuttled in 1865 to avoid capture. The Neuse was raised in 1965, and the remains are displayed at the C. S. S. Neuse State Historic Site in Kinston.
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Eastern North Carolina could have been a major battleground of the Civil War. It was close to the Confederate capital in Richmond. The area possessed valuable resources, and many citizens supported the Union cause. Yet Northern war strategy bypassed the region, except for the capture of Roanoke Island and New Bern in 1862. It would be late 1864 before the Union recognized the area's value and moved to capture it.
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Over 50,000 individuals in North Carolina and around the world participate in recreating the Civil War period with historical accuracy in dress and battles. The participants are drawn to reenacting through a love of history, the chance to play on opposing sides to gain the opponent's perspective, camaraderie, family participation, and the spiritual aspect of being where family members fought or died.
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Fearing that Federal troops would capture the Fresnel lens in the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Confederate soldiers removed it and shipped it inland to Washington, then Tarboro. With the Union threatening destruction of Washington if the lens wasn't returned, Dr. David Tayloe assumed responsibility for the lens and carried it to safety by boxcar to his home in Townsville in what is now Vance County. Tayloe died in 1884. The whereabouts of the forty-five boxes containing the Fresnel lens remain a mystery to this day.
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On March 18-19, 2000, thirty-seven hundred Civil War reenactors portraying Confederate and Union soldiers commemorated the Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County. Bentonville is the state's largest Civil War battle reenactment and is staged only once every five years.
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Built in 1836 by the federal government, the Fayetteville Arsenal constructed and stored guns and ammunition, while providing jobs and bolstering the local economy. At the start of the Civil War, it came under Confederate control and was the South's second-largest domestic weapons source. When General Sherman captured Fayetteville in March 1865, he ordered the arsenal destroyed. Today the foundation stones of the arsenal are part of the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex.
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Quaker beliefs conflicted with those of the Confederate Government during the Civil War. Opposition to war, a belief in the equality of all peoples, and freeing their slaves was not acceptable to authorities. Hostility and harassment forced 10,000 Quakers to leave North Carolina. By war's end, only 2,000 Quakers remained in the state.
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Life on the Southern home front was harsh for many families during the Civil War. With the men away, responsibility for keeping the farms going fell on the women, children, and elderly, since most North Carolinians did not own slaves. Marshall uses the family of Confederate soldier John Armsworthy to describe how the war destroyed the lives and dreams of many families.
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In 1862, Union troops occupied much of eastern North Carolina north of the Cape Fear River, and over 10,000 escaping slaves crossed their lines to freedom by spring. Many of the freed slaves joined the four North Carolina African American Union regiments. Others worked for the Army as teamsters, scouts, spies, cooks, and laundresses. When the war ended, the Freedman's Bureau replaced the Army as provider of care, welfare, and education to former slaves.
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Zebulon B. Vance was governor of North Carolina during the Civil War. He commanded the Twenty-sixth Regiment of North Carolina Troops at the battles of New Bern and Malvern Hill, prior to his election in 1862. He was an ardent nationalist and supported the Confederacy to the war's end. It was this steadfastness to the state that won him reelection in 1864 over peace candidate William W. Holden. Vance was again elected governor from 1877 to 1879 and then served as a U.S. Senator till his death in 1894.
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Following the South's defeat at Gettysburg, Raleigh newspaperman William Woods Holden urged negotiations with the North to bring peace. His peace movement put him at odds with many people, including his old friend Zebulon Vance, who defeated Holden for governor in 1864. North Carolina was the only state that had a peace movement. Confederate troops even sacked Holden's offices and threatened his life. After the war Holden became governor in 1868, but his support of African-American rights and opposition to the Ku Klux Klan led to his impeachment. He was removed from office in 1871, the first U.S. governor to endure this fate.
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Fort Fisher, built twenty miles south of Wilmington on the Cape Fear River at the start of the Civil War, was the largest and strongest earthwork fort in the world. As the Union blockade slowly closed all Southern ports, the fort was vital in keeping the river open to allow blockade runners to bring in supplies. Several times the Union tried top capture it and failed. On January 15, 1865, Fort Fisher finally fell to an overwhelming Northern force. Over 2,000 men were killed or wounded during the battle.
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William Ashe was a man who saw what needed to be done and gave 100 percent effort to do it. Cooke discusses his life in politics before the Civil War and his assignment as Assistant Quartermaster in charge of all rail transportation east of the Mississippi during the war.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 45 Issue 2, Mar 2001,
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Railroads across eastern North Carolina were a vital supply link for Confederate forces during the Civil War. Price describes the adventures and challenges of riding the trains during the turmoil of war.
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