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14447
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Zebulon Vance was a North Carolinian the memory of whose valiant service to the State will live forever. He was not only a great soldier but also a great statesman.
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There haven't been an outstandingly large number of poets in North Carolina, but there are some who have left an indelible mark upon the literature of the nation as a whole. John Charles McNeill immortalized the Lumber River and the blooming dogwood, while Henry Stockard wrote of the inflamed Southern manhood, and John Henry Boner published works on the whispering pines.
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Member of the best-known textile manufacturing family in North Carolina, Thomas M. Holt also gave North Carolina an excellent business administration while chief executive.
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Not only was William Lenoir an outstanding soldier during the American Revolutionary War, but he also served the state as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate and a member of the state Legislature.
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For a while, gold dust itself was used as a medium of exchange in North Carolina. Then came the Bechtlers with their famous private mint.
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14274
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The Avery brothers from Burke County, were Confederate colonels, all of whom were killed in action and gave their name to Avery County.
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Robert R. Bridgers faced a stupendous task, following the conclusion of the American Civil War, in rebuilding what is now the great Atlantic Coast Line System.
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At the close of the Civil War, the southern states were no longer recognized as such, but became military districts; the Carolinas became District number 2, under the command of the Federal General Daniel E. Sickles.
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John Harvey did more than any other man to bring on the Revolution in North Carolina; and had he not died in 1776, there is no question but that he, and not Richard Caswell, would have been the first Governor of North Carolina after its organization as an independent commonwealth.
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Jonathan Worth's services during and following the Civil War were outstanding, and the notes that he kept reveal an interesting story concerning that period of American and North Carolinian history.
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For more than 150 years, members of the famous Haywood family have been outstanding in various fields, such as law, government, education, and religion in North Carolina and for the nation.
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Thomas Bragg was born 1810 in Warrenton, one of three brothers; John Bragg, a member of Congress, and Braxton Bragg, the heralded Confederate General. Thomas gained his own fame within the state as Governor in 1854 and on a national scale as U.S. Senator after two terms as Governor. In Confederate government, President Davis appointed Bragg as Attorney General in November 1861, but surprisingly resigned in March 1862 for reasons still unknown. Afterward, he resumed his law practice in Raleigh until his death in January 1872.
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James Johnson Pettigrew was a Confederate General in the Civil War and died fighting at Gettysburg. Born in Tyrrell in 1828, he studied law and opened a practice in Charlotte 1847 before volunteering to serve during the war. While retreating from Gettysburg on July 14th, Pettigrew's brigade was ambushed by Federal troops and Pettigrew was mortally shot. He died three days later and his memory now immortalized by Pettigrew Park in Tyrrell.
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Bragg was the only North Carolinian to achieve the full rank of general during the Civil War. Many controversies remain in connection with the campaigns he waged. No one could doubt his courage, but his greatest liability was his failure to follow-up his success on the battlefield and reap the fruits of victory at places like Perryville, Kentucky and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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John Haymes Mills was the leader in the work of founding orphanages in North Carolina. While he was editor of the Biblical Recorder, Mills traveled around the state and saw the hardship that the Civil War had brought to North Carolina. When the Grand Lodge of Masons met in Raleigh in the 1870s to decide what to do with St. John's College in Oxford, Mills pleaded with them to set up an orphanage on that site. With money from the Masons and the Legislature, the orphanage was established, becoming the first orphanage in North Carolina.
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