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9370
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Malinda Blalock, under the pseudonym “Sam Blalock,†joined the Twenty Sixth North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate army commanded by Zebulon B. Vance in order to be near her husband, L. M., or Keith. Both eventually left the Confederates and served as Yankee spies for a Michigan Regiment.
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A gravestone commemorating Aunt Abby House was erected deep in the woods of Franklin County where a crude wooden marker once stood. The inscription reads: “Aunt Abby House, Angel of Mercy to the Confederate Soldiers, Died April 30, 1881.†The stone was fashioned after those placed on Confederate soldiers' graves by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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The first flag of the Confederate States of America was designed by Major Orren Randolph Smith and constructed by Miss Catherine Rebecca Murphy with her aunt and Miss Nora Sykes assisting. The flag first flew on the Franklin County Court House Square in Louisburg. This marked the turning point of public opinion from apathy to pro-secessionist-Confederacy.
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9889
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Due to a miscommunication, the Fifty-Fifth North Carolina Regiment failed to reinforce the Forty-Fourth Alabama Regiment near Suffolk, Virginia. Following the loss of the Civil War battle, Alabama generals shifted blame to North Carolina forces. Colonel John Kerr Connally and Major A. H. Belo promptly challenged Alabama Captains Cousins and Terrell to a duel. Talks ended the duel before any fatalities were claimed.
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9951
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In the summer of 1865, James Ellis Malone was thirteen years old and living in the Yankee occupied Franklin County town of Louisburg. He recorded his recollections in a journal that was handed down to his grandson, Edward L. Best. Excerpts quoted directly from the journal make up the bulk of the article, and include references to General J. E. B. Stuart, the 1st N.C. Cavalry, and Union Generals William T. Sherman and Oliver O. Howard.
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9961
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Parachutists flock to Franklin Airfield to sky dive at the Franklin County Parachute Center. Here, skydivers can earn their Class A license after completing 25 free falls in an approved manner. More seasoned jumpers can earn the Jump Master or Instructor licenses.
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The Kittrell Springs Hotel was transformed into a hospital for Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Today the small Vance County town holds one of the few designated Confederate Cemeteries in the state. The graves of fifty-two soldiers who died at the hospital are individually marked, and their names are all listed in the church records, except for four \"unknown soldiers.\"Â
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24552
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The small town of Kittrell, North Carolina was once a refuge for Confederate soldiers and is now the site of the Confederate Cemetery, which is made up of 52 graves of soldiers who died in Kittrell Springs Hospital.
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On July 9, 1862, Company B of the First Cavalry (Ninth North Carolina Regiment), under the temporary command of Lieutenant Alexander B. Andrews, participated in the first ever account of Cavalry versus Naval Vessels, successfully deterring three Federal gun-boats from destroying railroad bridges on the Roanoke river near Weldon. The events, including the actual encounter that took place near Hamilton, N.C. at Rainbow Banks (later Fort Branch), are told in Andrews own words, as quoted from the official history of the First Cavalry.
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Colonel Jordan Jones purchased the old grist mill at Sandy Creek in Franklin County just after the Civil War and expanded its operation to include a water-driven cotton gin and yarn spinning operation. The Laurel Mills spinning operation flourished briefly with the northern post-war demand for cotton, but soon failed because it could not compete with newer businesses that had better access to shipping. The grist mill continued to operate commercially into the nineteen sixties.
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The Experimental Aircraft Association, which has three chapters in North Carolina, is made up of pilots and airplane builders, most of who are over forty and fly strictly for enjoyment. Within this group, individual enthusiasts are primarily interested in building and design, racing and acrobatics, or restoration of vintage planes.
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Abbey House of Franklinton was one of the many civilian women who voluntarily nursed the sick and wounded during the Civil War. Originally featured in Land We Love (May/June 1867), a monthly magazine edited by former Confederate General D. H. Hill, “Aunt†Abby traveled without charge on the South's railroads and hitchhiked to battlefields to offer her assistance. She was also a regular visitor to the rail yards of Franklinton, greeting the trains that brought wounded soldiers back to North Carolina.
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24562
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Green Hill Place, located in present-day Franklin County, is a pre-Revolutionary home that was owned by a man named Green Hill, who left his mark in the county by establishing the Methodist Church in the South.
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24568
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Gold was mined commercially in Franklin County for almost one hundred years from its discovery in 1835. This article presents the boom and subsequent decline of gold digging in Franklin County.
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24572
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General Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889) published ‘The Land We Love,’ a monthly magazine that first appeared in May 1866 after the American Civil War. This article discusses General Hill’s reasons for publishing a magazine at a time when there was very little money in the country as a result of the war.
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