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Small was born in Washington in Beaufort County in 1858. He became a member of the Bar in 1881, and later held positions as superintendent of schools in Beaufort and Wayne counties. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the First District in 1899 and served for twenty years. He was the foremost authority there on waterways, and he eventually became chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee. His greatest achievement was the creation of the Atlantic Intercostal Waterway.
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There are not many Confederate soldiers alive today, but Rev. Furney A. Prevatt, who lives in Robeson County and was a member of the 18th Regiment N.C.T., remembers being at Chancellorsville with Jackson and at Gettysburg with Lee. He was in Pickett's Charge on the third day of the Gettysburg fight, and was later captured at the battle of Spotsylvania Court House in May 1864.
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17898
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Lawrence recounts some of the history of the 26th Regiment, North Carolina Troops, especially its performance at Gettysburg.
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17988
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Saunders was a lawyer, soldier, editor, North Carolina Secretary of State, and historian. During the Civil War he was Colonel of the Forty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment. He was wounded three times at Fredericksburg and suffered a near-fatal wound at the Battle of the Wilderness. His greatest contribution to the state was his copying, organizing, and overseeing the publishing of the ten volumes of the Colonial Records of North Carolina.
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Bennett was a soldier, congressman, lawyer, and superior court judge. He was Colonel of the Fourteenth North Carolina Regiment and was wounded at Gettysburg.
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17993
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Cooke was a member of the NC General Assembly, a superior court judge, and NC Secretary of State. He was a lieutenant, later captain, then adjutant, of the Fifty-Sixth NC Regiment during the Civil War. He was severely wounded at Hatcher's Run, Virginia, nine days before the surrender at Appomattox.
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Edward Warren of Tyrrell County was a physician and surgeon was one of the most remarkable men from North Carolina. He practiced medicine on three continents and was given official recognition by several governments including France, Turkey, Spain and Italy. During the Civil War he was Medical Inspector of the Army of Northern Virginia and Surgeon-General of North Carolina.
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Fannie Heck was born during the Civil War, and her family moved to Raleigh after the end of hostilities. Heck, well-educated, was from well-to-do family and she could have lived a life of ease but chose another path. Lawrence writes of her life and accomplishments as one of the most widely known religious leaders among Southern women.
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18107
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The Kenan family was in Duplin County years before it became a county, and they have served the state and its people in numerous ways. Among them were James Kenan, a member of the Provisional Congress; Thomas S. Kenan, who was Colonel of the 43rd North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War; and William Rand Kenan, who donated the Stadium to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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18110
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The Shipp family of Lincoln County has been prominent in the affairs of North Carolina since 1835, as soldiers, lawyers, and educators.
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18116
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Lawrence recounts the ancestry, life, and accomplishments of Robert Strange, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina.
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18129
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The state has had a number of outstanding jurists. Lawrence calls the roll of some of them and gives some information on the court itself.
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18131
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Lawrence was a page in the state Senate at age seven where he first became acquainted with lawyers and their cadenced speeches. The first one he remembered hearing was Thomas Dixon, who was then a lawyer. Lawrence admits that his list of lawyers is a sketchy one but that all who are there have a rightful place.
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18133
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Thompson of Onslow County was many things during his lifetime--N.C. Secretary of State, legislator, country doctor, teacher, agriculturist, and a great orator.
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18151
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The Branch family of Halifax County has the distinction of being the only family to have three generations to serve in the United States Congress. In addition the family was also active in many branches of public service.
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