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34447
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On 7 December, 1862, Presbyterian pastor Robert J. Graves was arrested for treason against the Confederacy. Over the next year, the case gained popularity in the media as it polarized public opinion of constitutional rights under the Confederate government. This article discusses the circumstances behind Graves’ arrest and subsequent trial.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 93 Issue 1, January 2016,
p1-27, il, por, f
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21613
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After the Civil War, the attitudes and behavior among elite white North Carolina women regarding work changed significantly depending on the age of the woman in question. Women born before 1820 changed the least as they clung to the tradition of needing servants and continued the same household managerial style as before the war. The next group of women, born between 1820 and 1845, had been young wives and mothers during the Civil War and had greater flexibility towards household work. The third group that grew up during the war and post-war Reconstruction, accepted domestic duties and expanded the range of employment, especially into teaching.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 73 Issue 1, Jan 1996,
p28-55 , il, por, f
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23462
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Kinchen Jahu Carpenter, a native of Rutherford County, N.C., served in Company I of the 50th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War. During his service, from May 1862 to May 1865, Carpenter kept a diary of his experiences. The diary mentions numerous events, such as Carpenter's first days in training at Camp Mangum, the 50th's fighting in the Seven Day's battles near Richmond, as well as several expeditions in Eastern North Carolina. Carpenter mentions Greenville many times, as his regiment conducted numerous operations in the surrounding region in 1863, from Kinston to New Bern to Washington, always trying to outmaneuver the Union troops garrisoned in around New Bern and the along the coast. Carpenter and his regiment were sent west to Georgia in 1864, but returned to North Carolina to fight at the Battle of Bentonville in March 1865. The men of the 50th North Carolina, including Carpenter, received paroles on May 1, 1865 following the surrender of Lee's and Johnston's armies.
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8464
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During the Civil War salt was a commodity that was hard to come by in North Carolina. Early in the war the state government built a salt works at Morehead City and started work on a second one on Currituck Sound, but Union troops captured both sites in 1862. Westbrook recounts how the state government and private entrepreneurs worked to provide citizens and soldiers with salt for the remainder of the Civil War. By 1864, most salt production in the state had ceased.
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In 1863, a mob of Confederate soldiers' wives and mothers, fed up with the inflation from the ongoing Civil War, marched through Salisbury with axes and hatchets demanding the scarce foodstuffs that various speculators were stockpiling to sell out of state at high prices. Through intimidation and force the women collected twenty-three barrels of flour, two sacks of salt, a barrel of molasses, and twenty dollars in Confederate money. After the women appealed to Governor Zebulon Vance, he permanently banned the export of foodstuffs and cloth out of the state.
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15675
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In Gerard's introduction to his eight-part series on the Civil War, he writes Dr. John D. Bellamy was the epitome of Southern gentry; unfailingly loyal to the Confederacy and profiting from slave labor. Bellamy owned three plantations and approximately 1,000 slaves, the profits from just one plantation paid for his family's mansion in downtown Wilmington. After the outbreak of war, Bellamy sent a contingency of his slaves to construct sand forts along Cape Fear River with no compensation from the Confederate Government. Bellamy and his family later fled Wilmington, the town he helped fortify, after the yellow fever outbreak in 1862 to find refuge at Floral College.
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10337
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On April 16, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union General William T. Sherman at Bennett Place. It was the largest troop surrender of the Civil War and effectively ended the fighting. Jackson describes the events and relates what happened to the property afterwards.
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4106
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Through her prominent position in Washington, DC society, Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow was able to gather information of value to the South during the Civil War. Imprisoned by the North, then later deported to Richmond, she went to Europe in 1862 to try to win support for the Southern cause. On her return in 1864, her ship ran aground off Wilmington, and she drowned attempting to reach shore.
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21647
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This article examines how late 19th century Confederate memorial associations in Raleigh affected the commemoration of Confederate war dead. These organizations were created to found and care for permanent Confederate cemeteries, organize commemorative functions, and sponsor Confederate monuments. Women often provided the leadership of these associations, establishing themselves as capable of public leadership roles.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 4, Oct 2000,
p455-491 , il, por, f
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20930
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Union elections were held in four Confederate states in an attempt to reestablish Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Louisiana into the Union. One election took place in the state's first and second districts in 1863. The article summarizes the events and political maneuvering necessary for these elections to occur and for North Carolinians to realign themselves with the Union by electing congressmen.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 43 Issue 4, Oct 1966,
p381-400, f
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112
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The Confederate branches of the army and the navy were at odds with one another on Wilmington's waterfront in 1864.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 36 Issue 2, Feb 1992,
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19771
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George V. Strong became the Confederate States attorney for the District of North Carolina on June 17, 1861. His first task was to go to New Bern and deal with three admiralty cases. Admiralty cases were not Strong's specialty and, in general, presented a convoluted area of the law for any practicing lawyer of the time. The article reviews how Strong called upon those more experienced to deal with specific admiralty cases in the state at the opening of the Civil War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 17 Issue 2, April 1940,
p132-138, f
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4890
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In 1862, Union troops occupied much of eastern North Carolina north of the Cape Fear River, and over 10,000 escaping slaves crossed their lines to freedom by spring. Many of the freed slaves joined the four North Carolina African American Union regiments. Others worked for the Army as teamsters, scouts, spies, cooks, and laundresses. When the war ended, the Freedman's Bureau replaced the Army as provider of care, welfare, and education to former slaves.
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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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21582
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This article presents and annotates a portion of the diary of Henry William Gangewer (1827-1880), which records the day to day activities of the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Burnside Expedition. The Burnside Expedition captured Roanoke Island on 7 February 1862 from Confederate forces.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 1, Jan 1994,
p62-84 , il, por, map, f
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