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Zebulon Baird Vance, \"war governor\" from 1862-1865, was likely the most popular and beloved chief executive in all of North Carolina history. The Confederate policy of impressing private property for military uses provoked bitter protest between Vance and Confederate President Davis. Though a critic of Davis and the Confederate government, his policy was to \"fight the Yankees and fuss with the Confederacy.\"
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13446
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Daniel Harvey Hill's First North Carolina Regiment won fame in the first major battle of the war on June 10, 1861, at Big Bethel, Virginia. North Carolinians at first opposed the Civil War, the voters of the state rejecting the call of a convention to consider secession by a vote of 47,323 to 46,672. The logic of events that followed caused North Carolina to cast their lot with the Confederacy, firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861.
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13490
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Some two million North Carolinians now live on land which was once the property of an English nobleman, John Lord Carteret, the first Earl of Granville - the largest individual landholder in North Carolina history.
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13496
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Part two of the articles on the Granville Grant (previously in 2 January 1954, Vol. 21, No. 31, pp. 1-2, 12) describes the remainder of the case and its significance for North Carolina.
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13793
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The first good roads movement in the state led to a boom in plank road building, and a brief era of good transportation.
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13835
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An issue since 1712, the boundary lines between North and South Carolina have caused numerous disputes spanning three centuries. This article discusses the history of this disagreement as well the use of Native Americans as pawns and the property mix-ups that started the controversy.
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19985
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The Walter Clark Papers are part of the State Department of Archives and History and contain several letters between Clark and Professor William E. Dodd of the University of Chicago. Clark served the state as a politician and jurist who served as associate justice and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1889 to 1924. Clark wrote to Dodd about historical and constitutional questions from 1906 to 1924 and these are reprinted in this issue.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 25 Issue 1, Jan 1948,
p91-100, f
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20631
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This article is a reprint of a two-page unsigned communication to the London newspaper \"The Modern Intelligencer\" in 1649 by an author known only as a \"well-willer.\" The piece offers a description of \"Carolina\" around the time when a governor was to be appointed to the region and, \"many gentlemen of quality and their families with him.\" Some background information on \"The Moderate Intellegencer\" is included in the introduction.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Jan 1955,
p102-105
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20847
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Dr. Lefler outlines the extent of State history written to date, as well as proposing areas in need of further historical examination including state settlement, immigration, economics, military affairs, political history, criminal law, slavery, religious history, health, science, medicine, biography, regional studies and city histories, among others.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 38 Issue 2, April 1961,
p216-227, f
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