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Before the days of screw-pile lighthouses on Pamlico Sound, the dangerous reefs of Royal Shoal were marked by light vessels. By an act of Congress, light vessels were stationed at several points around the shoals from March 3, 1826 until 1862, when rebels sank them all to barricade the Neuse River against Union forces. After the war, Congress enacted new legislation to provide for several screw-pile lighthouses, the first being lit April 30, 1867. Charles Keeler and his brother (unnamed), both former Union soldiers who had been stationed at New Bern, returned to North Carolina after the war, married the McCotter sisters from Pamlico County and were appointed as keepers of two screw-pile lighthouses, five miles apart at opposite ends of Royal Shoal. Kelly Robinson, born October 24, 1891, was adopted by Charles and Annie Keeler, grew up living in the lighthouse, and may be the only living North Carolinian to do so.
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Jo Jo, a monkey-like character who appeared with daily weather forecasts in a bottom corner of the front page of the Charlotte Observer for almost 40 years, was the creation of Curtis B. Johnson, owner/publisher of the Observer. By 1934, Jo Jo was being drawn by Charlotte commercial artist Hal Gaffney. Weather predictions were accompanied by four-line verses of wit and charm written by D. G. Spencer. During World War II, Jo Jo and artist Dick Pitts, who drew Jo Jo from 1935 until 1950, both enlisted in the army. A series of Jo Jo's cartoons was once exhibited in Charlotte's Mint Museum.
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The Anson County Historical Society, under the leadership of Linn D. Garibaldi, took possession of the oldest and most historically significant house in Wadesboro from Major L. P. McLendon, prominent Greensboro lawyer, state civic leader, and descendant of Capt. Patrick Boggan, the original builder of the house. The historical society's efforts to preserve the home for a museum and for educational purposes was aided by a 1969 General Assembly grant of $20,000 and a Richardson Foundation grant of $3,000. Capt. Boggan was one of the Anson Regulators who stormed the county courthouse on April 28, 1768 demanding relief from the injustices of Royal Local Magistrates. The Regulators nominated their own Assembly representative, Charles Robinson, making them possibly the first citizens group in America to make a political nomination and certainly among the first to forcibly demand justice from local officers.
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Prison overcrowding and the associated issues of housing, feeding, guarding, and caring for prisoners was a problem for both the North and the South during the Civil War. Relief came from a prisoner exchange agreement in July, 1862 that allowed for the exchange of prisoners within ten days of capture. President Jefferson Davis, CSA, broke this agreement over the issue of captured black soldiers and Major General Henry W. Halleck returned the favor in May 1863 by ordering that all prisoner exchanges were to be stopped. Afterwards, prison conditions on both sides deteriorated rapidly from overcrowding, leading to the deaths of more than 56,000 POWs during the war. The most notorious prisons were Andersonville (Confederate) and Fort Delaware (Union).
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The greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States up to that time occurred on April 27, 1865 at approximately 2 a.m. A total of 1,238 passengers, 1,806 just released from the Andersonville, GA prison camp, were lost when the newly commissioned Mississippi sidewheeler SULTANA exploded and sank near Memphis, TN. Because of recent news regarding the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, little publicity was given to the event at the time and it has been largely forgotten since. Designed to carry no more than 1,500 persons, the boat was overloaded with a total of 2,054 passengers eager to return to the North following the war.
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The only Health Museum in North Carolina was opened in Asheville in 1969 by a small organization of doctor's wives headed by Mrs. Eugene Sharpe, President of the Auxiliary to the Buncombe County Medical Society. Realizing the invaluable help that their own children received from their fathers' knowledge, libraries, and access to source materials, the Society decided to make these aids available to other children in the county.
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