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12870
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The Battle of Bentonville, which was the bloodiest battle in North Carolina was also the last. The Confederates, led by Joseph Johnston, fought the Union army, led by General Sherman, to a draw. The Union's victory during the Carolina Campaign will be preserved as the land encompassing the site has been purchased for safeguarding. Totaling $50,000 dollars, the funds were obtained from the State Legislature as well as the Bentonville Battlefield Association.
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4480
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The Battle of Bentonville in Johnston County, fought in the spring of 1865, was the last great battle of the Civil War and the largest ever fought in North Carolina. On March 18-19, 2000, around 3,500 reenactors with twenty artillery pieces will recreate parts of the battle in observance of its 135th anniversary.
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Leonidas Polk, who was born in Raleigh, had the unusual distinction of being a Bishop in the Episcopal Church and a General in the Confederate Army at the same time.
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The thriving mining city of Spruce Pine, in Mitchell County, took its name from a giant tree that stands at the forks of the town road. Many important events have taken place in the immediate vicinity of the huge spruce pine, including the Civil War story of Isaac English and Col. J. M. Gear. English was a Union sympathizer who encountered Union Col. Gear while walking through town, and helped the sickly Colonel to safety.
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Fatally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, North Carolina, 2 May 1863; Stonewall Jackson, was accidently shot by Confederate quail hunters from Alamance County.
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12943
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Stoneman's Raid, a Union harassing campaign during the Civil War, rained death, destruction, and terror on Western North Carolina. In an effort to research the 2,000 mile long trail of burning, pillaging, and unrest, Boone native, Dr. Ina Woestemeyer revisits this historic ordeal.
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Born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on 14 February 1819, James Green Martin began his life as the eldest son of a physician, farmer, and shipbuilder. Entering West Point in 1836, Martin graduated four years later and began serving his nation. Participating in border skirmishes with the British on Canadian soil, Martin was soon transferred to Mexico, where he fought in many major engagements before losing his arm at the Battle of Churubusco, 20 August 1847. Serving as quartermaster during the Utah Expedition, Martin returned to military service upon onset of the Civil War. Appointed General in Chief of all of the forces in North Carolina, Martin produced 72 regiments within the state, over the duration of the war, and found means to furnish weapons, clothing, horses, and supplies, for each of these men, crediting North Carolina with providing the most amounts of troops for the Confederacy during the Rebellion. \r\n
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28548
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The reemergence of the 1864 Agnes E. Fry shipwreck and its importance are detailed. The Agnes E. Fry was a blockade runner intended to be used to evade Union warships during the Civil War. The Fry’s history, the account of its final run as told by Bernard Roux Harding, and its place off the NC coast are described. Billy Ray Morris, director of the Underwater Archaeology Branch, rediscovered the ship and he describes the work being done to preserve and document the find.
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12732
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In an 1865 letter to J. Evans Brown in Australia, Governor Zebulon Vance writes he is depressed by defeat, without funds, and thinking of emigrating to Australia. Quickly recovering his optimism and fortune, Vance was re-elected as Governor in 1876 and later completed four terms in the U.S. Senate. Vance's letter to Brown, explained in further detail in the article, describes conditions in North Carolina at the end of the war and the start of Reconstruction.
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13894
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This Bible was stolen from the Presbyterian Church in Wilmington during the closing days of the Civil War. It was kept in possession of a Union soldier for 63 years until it was finally returned.
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13902
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The Confederate Civil War prison at Salisbury wasn't exactly a striking demonstration of southern hospitality; disease, death and disorder all had their day.
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9394
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Colonel George Kirk organized and commanded North Carolina Union Cavalry regiments in Burnsville finding Union sentiment high in mountain counties for the lack of slave holders. Kirk's ruthless raids in the Blue Ridge Mountains proved integral in diverting attention from main Union forces of Stoneman and Sherman.
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12836
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Two small log buildings, located on the outskirts of Durham, mark the scene of General Joseph E. Johnston's surrender to General Sherman. The houses, historically known as the Last Confederate in the Field, will be restored as authentic structures, known as Bennett Place or Bennett House.
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The Avery brothers from Burke County, were Confederate colonels, all of whom were killed in action and gave their name to Avery County.
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Rose O'Neal Greenhow was a Confederate spy. She was laid to rest in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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