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22913
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A collection of Pitt County Civil War stories about various topics is documented. In this collection there is a humorous story of Confederate soldiers waiting for Greenville to be invaded by Union troops, upon hearing noises coming, prepared to fight, only to find it was only a drove of cattle. In 1909, Don L. Carson, found a gun in a tree while hunting. It was believed to be the gun of Thomas Crisp, a Unionist who was captured there. In 1862, J. H. Barnhill grew a cantaloupe that weighed 40 pounds. The story of the Old Brick Store in Greenville is given, being a base for Confederate Officers. The Civil War tale of Miss Rutha Dennis, sister of Skilton Dennis, who walked to a Virginia Hospital to tend to the wounds of her brother. And lastly, the funny tale of a boat of 400 Yankee prisoners which stopped at Taft’s Landing. The prisoners were allowed to bathe and they stirred up tar that covered the bottom of the river.
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Christopher Columbus Bland, more affectionately known as "Kit," a Pitt County native, enlisted in Brunswick County at the age of nineteen on July 15, 1864. As Fort Fisher was assaulted by Union ships, Bland tried three times to put the Confederate flag atop the fort. However, he was caught and sent to prison at Cape Lookout, Maine on January 15, 1865. He was released on June 3, 1865. Eventually, he took up residence in Ayden and married Cecillia (Betty) Boyd (a direct descendant of Betsy Ross). Apparently, Bland had war-blood in him because several people reported that he was "chumping at the bit" to enter World War One. To commemorate his bravery in the Civil War, a monument was erected in the 1920s at Hancock's Churchyard two miles east of Ayden.
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22944
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Henry Lawson Wyatt lived in Greenville in 1848 but moved to Tarboro, NC around 1860. During the Civil War Wyatt enlisted in the infantry on April 18, 1861 and killed on June 10, 1861 at the age of 17. Many people claim that he was the first Confederate fatality of the war and established a monument in Raleigh in 1911 in his honor.
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Tryon Palace reopened the New Bern Academy Museum, a place that tells the story of union occupation in New Bern. The building itself is a historic site, for Union troops used it as a hospital during the war.
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23297
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A small cemetery in Weldon dates to the Civil War and provides a testament to the history of northeastern North Carolina.
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Taylor Harris was born in Chicod Township in Pitt County in 1834. With the beginning of the Civil War, Harris joined the Confederate Army and was stationed at Fort Fisher. In December of 1864, Union forces laid siege to the fort in the hopes of capturing Wilmington and cutting off the efforts of Confederate blockade - runners. During the siege, a steamer carrying medicine for North Carolina soldiers tried to break through the Union blockade. Coming under attack by Union warships, the steamer was run aground and the crew rescued. Wishing to destroy the ship and its cargo, Union sailors quickly boarded the vessel and prepared to blow it up. Inside Fort Fisher, Colonel Lamb called for volunteers to save the ship and its vital cargo. Taylor Harris was one of the volunteers and just happened to be the first man to reach the ship. Realizing that the fuse was close to igniting the waiting gunpowder, Harris acted quickly, seized the burning fuse and threw it overboard. O. L. Joyner recorded this story in 1904, after having heard it from Harris himself.
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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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In 1926, John Lang, an 83-year-old Civil War veteran, spoke of his experiences as a soldier in the 27th North Carolina regiment. His memory brought back the story of the regiment's first colonel, who abandoned his men at Kinston, but was then replaced by Col. Cook, whom Lang and the other soldiers of the regiment liked very much. Mr. Lang spoke of his seeing Robert E. Lee on several occasions, a train derailment in the Virginia mountains, the time during the Battle of the Wilderness when a fellow Confederate soldier stole his ham, as well as the final days of the war when he was assigned to guard a train at Appomattox Station, VA.
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23823
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The Civil War deeply divided Western North Carolina. The author provides a brief chronology of the conflict in the region and notes the current activities of area groups marking the 150th anniversary of the war.
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23914
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This article, the third in a series on North Carolina in the Civil War, traces Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's efforts to stop Sherman's march at the Battle of Bentonville in March of 1865.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 10, March 2015,
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The Battle of Fort Branch took place in July 1862, and the battle is recreated every November for three days at the Fort Branch Re-Enactment and Living History Program.
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Fort Fisher was the largest and strongest earthwork fort of its time. Union troops hoped to bomb the fort using a ship loaded with explosives. The bomb was designed by General Benjamin F. ‘Beast’ Butler (1818-1893). Though the bomb failed, a second attack on the fort using a land assault and a naval bombardment brought the surrender of Fort Fisher.
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24488
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This article discusses the incidents taking place during the year 1862 during the American Civil War. It discusses important events on both the Union and Confederate sides.
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During the last months of 1864, Wilmington, North Carolina was the last porthole of the Confederacy to the outside world. This article describes how, though the town was blockaded by the Federal Blockading Squad, Brigadier General Edwin Grey Lee, C.S.A. managed to escape to Canada
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This article recounts the time when the Confederate Navy confronted a Yankee fleet on the open seas outside of the Cape Fear River. CSS RALEIGH (ship) was used in an effort to clear Onslow Bay of Union blockaders.
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