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23914
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This article, the third in a series on North Carolina in the Civil War, traces Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's efforts to stop Sherman's march at the Battle of Bentonville in March of 1865.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 10, March 2015,
p185-186, 188, 190-192, il, por
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24608
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As part nine of The Civil War: Life in North Carolina series, this article describes the role of nine nuns who traveled from New York to nurse soldiers back to health in Beaufort, North Carolina.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 4, September 2014,
p218-220, 222-226, il
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24609
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The shad is North Carolina’s state historical boat and its history dates back to the Reconstruction era. George Washington Creef built the first shad in 1881 and it became a popular boat for those who fished for a living.
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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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26910
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Ocracoke Island residents harvested oysters long before Sir Walter Raleigh’s agents discovered the island. Following the Civil War, however, Ocracokers harvested increasing numbers of the shellfish and nurtured their beds to ensure that there would be plenty of oysters for generations. In 1890, tensions grew between native Ocracokers and outsiders whose dredging practices had virtually destroyed their oyster populations. Eventually, the state passed to protect Ocracoke’s oyster beds from over-fishing.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 12, May 2016,
p30, 32, 34, il, por, map
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34280
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For the Qualla Cherokee Indians, the western mountains of North Carolina are sacred and eternal, but surviving and prospering here has been a challenge of generations. Known as the “Land of Blue Smoke,” the sovereign nation encompasses parts of Jackson and Swain counties at the eastern gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This article covers the history of the Cherokee, their achievements, and their sacrifices.
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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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34831
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In 2018, a monster storm hit North Carolina called Hurricane Florence. This article documents the experience of author Philip Gerard from the preparation through the storm, the aftermath and to the future.
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34844
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In 1940, the Marine Corps began searching for the perfect spot to build a new base in which soldiers could train for amphibious assault missions. This was first called Marine Barracks New River; it was later renamed after General Lejeune, who revolutionized the way that Marines trained for amphibious assault missions.
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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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34864
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The Great Flood of 1940 in North Carolina was caused by days of torrential downpours from a hurricane. Landslides caused by the rain and clear-cutting mountainsides engulfed several towns, killing twelve people and ruining hundreds of properties. This article remembers those that died and the impact the landslides had on the towns they crushed.
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34987
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From May 15, 2015 to February 19, 2017 at the Cape Fear Museum, an exhibition called “Reflections in Black and White” will be available to view. The photographs, all black and white photos, were taken in Wilmington in the 1940s and 50’s. While the subjects are doing similar things, like attending parties, playing, or working, they all showcase the significant amount of segregation at the time; not one photograph has a white and black subject in the same frame.
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37423
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The dulcimer, often associated with Western North Carolina, found places other than the region’s lumber mills and was found long before the nineteenth century. Introduced in Europe by returning Crusaders, its origins can be traced back to Greece and the Near East.
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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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37637
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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.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 9, February 2015,
p151-152, 154, 156, 158, 160
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