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Abstract:
Legends and rumors about Confederate Treasury gold being buried in N.C.'s Piedmont continue to the present day. That any vast horde of gold was ever hidden in the state, however, is unlikely.
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In 1880, a correspondent and artist for LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED came to Raleigh to interview General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the last Confederate Army in the field, surrendering near Durham. Joseph's surrender to General Sherman occurred April 26, 1865.
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Charged with the task of stemming General W.T. Sherman's sweep northward, General Joseph E. Johnston struggled to meet in the invading army with enough troops, but he made his stand near the village of Bentonville.
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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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April was known for two Durham County anniversaries, one being the 116th anniversary of General Joseph Johnston’s surrender to General William Sherman. The latter event appears to have generated only loss, but the author proved otherwise. Noted was Union soldiers camping near Bennett Place planted a seed of demand for its bright leaf tobacco. Wealth generated from the demand yielded the relocation of Trinity College to Durham. From an endowment by James B. Duke came the transformation of Trinity College into Duke University.
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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.
Subject(s):
Sherman, William T., 1820-1891;
Civil War;
Fayetteville Arsenal ;
Howard, Oliver Otis;
Slocum, Henry Warner;
Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson;
Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891;
Hampton, Wade, III;
Civil War--battles;
Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Siege, 1864-1865
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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.
Subject(s):
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