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16811
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Gerard recounts the events leading to the attempted recapture of New Bern in January 1864 and the decisions made by certain Confederate soldiers which eventually led to their hanging in Kinston.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 1, June 2012,
p58-60, 62, 64-66, 68, il, por
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21426
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Many couples wrote letters to each other covering a myriad of subjects during the Civil War. One of them was Francis Marion Poteet, a farmer, miller, and carpenter from Dysartsville in McDowell County, who was conscripted in 1863 at age 36. Left on the home front was his wife, Martha Hendley Poteet, who was pregnant, and ten children. Their letters describe the conflicts they faced--Francis staying alive and Martha keeping the family together and feeding them while fighting the landlord over eviction from their property. They survived and lived together for fifty-four years. Both died on the same day--April 2, 1902.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Sept 2013,
p200-2002, 204, 206, 208, il
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21626
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Gerard recounts how soldiers deserting from North Carolina and other state regiments tried to survive while hiding out from Home Guards and other groups who sought them. Some were successful, some were not. A number escaped into Tennessee where they often enlisted in Northern units.
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17778
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As an infant in Watauga County, Arthel Lane Watson lost his sight. As a teenager he picked up a guitar. As an adult he is revered as the great \"Doc\" Watson.
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42647
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Author Phillip Gerard reflects on race car driver Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson and the evolution of the North Wilkesboro Speedway.
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43088
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"On September 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 goes down near Charlotte. The crash -- one of the worst in state history -- initiates lasting changes to the rules surrounding takeoffs and landings." 72 people are killed. A result of the following investigation led to the "sterile cockpit rule", codified in 1981 and designed to focus the flight crew's attention during critical phases of takeoff and landing.
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34370
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In the 1930s and ‘40s, black farmers settled in rural Halifax County to farm under a program that originated as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Tillery Farms Resettlement project aimed to compose a percentage of blacks in the farming population, improve their economic prospects and make them self-sufficient, and stabilize the larger agricultural economy that collapsed during the Depression. More than two-hundred black families have owned farms in Tillery, and generations remain on the land they worked.
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16224
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During the Civil War, the Confederate army was lacking for many provisions and services, none as dire as the lack of medical personnel and supplies. There were only 8,000 Confederate doctors and only two ambulances per regiment of 2,000 troops. Of the medical staff, many lacked formal training and were unprepared to treat gunshot wounds or trauma.
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19397
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William Henry Singleton was born a slave in 1843 in eastern North Carolina. During the Civil War he escaped to New Bern, a city under Union control, and over several months raised and trained a thousand African American soldiers, known as the 1st North Carolina Colored Volunteers. Gerard recounts his life from slavery through the war and finally to freedom.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 10, Mar 2013,
p52-54, 56, 58-60, il, por
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24617
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As part ten of The Civil War: Life in North Carolina series, this article describes the interstate slave trade in North Carolina, the movement of male slaves to the western part of the state, and what the imminent end of the Confederacy meant for slaveholders, as well as slaves.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 5, October 2014,
p213-214, 216, 218-220, il
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37894
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This battle's carnage is measured in more than Union and Confederate casualties. Included by the author were the destruction of the 26th North Carolina Regiment as a formidable force. Attesting to Gettysburg’s destruction included 28,000 Confederate dead or wounded, 2,935 of whom were buried in Virginia’s Hollywood Cemetery. The large number of North Carolina soldiers killed, one in four of total forces, helped to usher in a peace movement yielding 100 rallies and increased division between the Secessionists and Unionists.
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Pa., 1863; Civil War--battles; Lee, Robert E, 1807-1870; Stuart, J.E.B., 1833-1864; Kenan, Thomas Stephen, 1838-1911; Burgwyn, Henry King, Jr., 1841-1863; Lane, John Randolph, 1835-1908; Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863; Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894; Weaver, Rufus B., 1841-1946; Secessionists; Unionists--North Carolina; Peace movements--North Carolina; Hollywood Cemetery--Virginia; Hollywood Cemetery--Gettysburg Hill
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15678
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Part five of Gerard's eight-part series on the Civil War is about William Henry Asbury Speer of Yadkin represents the conflicted Confederate soldier; hesitant to fight but determined to defend his state. He was appointed captain of Company I, 28th Regiment of North Carolina Troops. During the course of the war he would be captured and transported to several northern prisoner of war camps, returned to service, and placed in charge of troops in almost every major engagement. He perished at the Battle of Reams' Station near Petersburg, Virginia in 1864.
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37606
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Chronicled is Wilmington’s Fort Fisher on December 24th, 1864, and January 13th, 1865. Key players in the battles hinting the Confederacy’s end: Union Generals Sherman and Grant; Confederate Generals Lamb, Whiting, and Bragg. Factors contributing to the outcome were General Whiting’s garrison outnumbered 6 to 1 during the second assault and General Bragg’s belief in Fort Fisher’s invulnerability.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 7, December 2014,
p193-194, 196, 198, 200, 202, 204, por
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Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Siege, 1864-1865; Fort Fisher (New Hanover County); Fort Fisher (New Hanover County)--Description and travel; Sherman, William T., 1820-1891; Grant, Ulysses S. ; Lamb, William, 1835-1909; Whiting, William Henry Chase, 1824-1865; Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876; Terry, Alfred Howe; Porter, David D., 1813-1891; Civil War
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21679
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Philip Gerard, author and chairman of the creative writing department at UNC-Wilmington, moved to the city in 1989. He describes what it's like living among movie stars and movie-making on a daily basis.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 10, Mar 2014,
p130-132, 134, 136-138, 140, 142-144, il
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34850
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During World War I, Sandhills Airfield was used in order to train artillery brigades. It became an official post in 1922, renamed Fort Bragg. It also becomes the home of the 82nd Airborne.
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