Record #:

13446

Author(s):

Lefler, Hugh Talmadge

Abstract:

Daniel Harvey Hill's First North Carolina Regiment won fame in the first major battle of the war on June 10, 1861, at Big Bethel, Virginia. North Carolinians at first opposed the Civil War, the voters of the state rejecting the call of a convention to consider secession by a vote of 47,323 to 46,672. The logic of events that followed caused North Carolina to cast their lot with the Confederacy, firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 11, Oct 1961, p11-12, 31, il

Subject(s):

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