Record #:

9925

Author(s):

Jones, Ora L.

Abstract:

In an effort to save Confederate forces under the command Gen. Braxton Bragg from defeat, Gen. James Longstreet moved 15,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia, plus their artillery, ammunition, wagons, horses and mules from their home bases in Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, a distance of more than 900 miles, in just nine days. Only a few weeks later, Federal forces under the command of Major General Joseph Hooker broke this record by moving more than 20,000 troops and their supplies 1,157 miles in five days on orders to relieve Gen. William Rosecrans who was under siege in Chattanooga at the hands of the recently reinforced Confederates. Both moves took place in September, 1863.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 8, Sept 1972, p12-13, 31, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Record #:

9926

Author(s):

Grigg, Ivey F.

Abstract:

The first long distance phone call in North Carolina was made on April 14, 1878 from Raleigh to Port City (now Wilmington). It was placed between two telegraph operators over existing telegraph lines and there were extra extensions on each end so that observers could listen. Twelve years later, John Schenk, Jr. brought the first telephone exchange to the Piedmont to serve his Cleveland County Cotton Mill at Lawndale.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 8, Sept 1972, p15-16, il

Subject(s):

Telephone--History; Telegraph--History