The Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Johnston County has acquired 3.5 acres of the battlefield. The acreage contains trenches forming part of the main Union line during the battle.
Born in Pitt County, William D. Herrington served in the Confederate cavalry during the Civil War and wrote three novels based on his experiences. He disappeared after being captured in 1865 and was never heard from again.
Emeline Pigott of Morehead City not only cared for wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, but also spied on Union troops and delivered war supplies for the Southern cause.
Mules stolen from the Union army began Ashley Horne's fortune. In 1911, frustrated by the lack of legislative funding to honor Confederate women, the Confederate veteran paid $10,000 to build a monument to Confederate women on Capitol Square in Raleigh.
The marriage in 1865 of Eleanor Swain, daughter of a former governor and then UNC president David L. Swain, to Union General Smith D. Atkins, was highly controversial and divisive in the town of Chapel Hill.
Cannon have not been at Fort Macon on Bogue Banks since the Civil War ended. Now, through the efforts of organizations like Friends of Fort Macon and Carolina Power and Light Company, a replica of a 32-pounder was put in place on April 18, 1996.
Bentonville Battleground was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 19, 1996, by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. The Civil War battle was the largest ever fought in the state.
The Raft Swamp Post Office, the only free-standing Confederate post office in the South, is 150 years old in October, 1996. The 15-by-18-feet structure stands on the Humphrey-Williams-Smith Plantation in Robeson County.
Around the world, over 20,000 individuals recreate the military lifestyle of the American Civil War with historical accuracy in dress and battles. Over 600 reenactors in 15 units in the state bring local history to life.
Running the Union navy blockade outside the port of Wilmington during the Civil War was a dangerous undertaking. Emma Henry Ferguson endured a harrowing escape aboard the LYNX during May, 1864.
Organized in the spring of 1861, the North Carolina Navy defended coastal waters until absorption into the Confederate Navy during the summer of 1861. David Alexander Coleman was the navy's best-known officer.
Seventy thousand of the state's 125,000 Confederate soldiers were returned to the state for burial. To date, 16,000 of these graves have been located. The graves are maintained in honor of those who died in the tragic conflict.
The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle fought in North America. Tar Heel troops made up thirty-two regiments, and one in every four soldiers lost in the fighting was from the state.
Built on Bogue Banks in the early 19th-century for coastal defense and to protect Beaufort harbor, Fort Macon fired its guns in anger only once -- during the Civil War. Today it is a 385-acre state park that attracts one million visitors annually.
Built in 1862, Fort Anderson was the last fortification against Union troops moving up the Cape Fear River to attack Wilmington. It fell to Union soldiers on February 17, 1865, leading to the capture of Wilmington and effectively shutting off the Confederacy's last supply line.