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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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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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Captain George W. Kirk led an expedition of the Third North Carolina (Union) Volunteer Infantry into western North Carolina, in the summer of 1864. Kirk's men were stationed in east Tennessee, which was controlled by Union forces. Western North Carolina was still controlled by the Confederacy, but there were many Union sympathizers and Confederate deserters in the region. Kirk crossed into North Carolina on June 13, 1864. His forces reached a Confederate force at Camp Vance undetected. Comprised of reserves that were unarmed at the time of Kirk's arrival, the Confederates surrendered. Kirk failed, however, to capture a train on the Western North Carolina Railroad which he intended to take to Salisbury. There, Kirk had planned on rescuing Union prisoners held at the Salisbury prison. Without a train that could quickly take them to Salisbury, the Union forces decided to return to Tennessee. Union forces continued to raid western North Carolina until the end of the Civil War. Kirk was later called upon by North Carolina governor W. W. Holden to suppress Ku Klux Klan activities within the state in the early 1870s.
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On April 16, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered at Bennett Place. Now a state historical park and museum, all of the main buildings at Bennett Place have been restored, and plans for a visitor's center are underway. The surrender documents are on display as are pictures of Atlanta after it was burned.
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The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was a crucial part of the Confederate supply line for Richmond. In July, Union forces focused their attention on severing the railroad bridge at Weldon. Led by General Matt W. Ransom, 200 Confederates held off Union Colonel Samuel P. Spears and his 2,000 men at the bridge. Having been surprised while swimming, many Confederate soldiers fought the battle without clothes.
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Malinda Blalock, under the pseudonym “Sam Blalock,†joined the Twenty Sixth North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate army commanded by Zebulon B. Vance in order to be near her husband, L. M., or Keith. Both eventually left the Confederates and served as Yankee spies for a Michigan Regiment.
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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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In an effort to save Confederate forces under the command Gen. Braxton Bragg from defeat, Gen. James Longstreet moved 15,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia, plus their artillery, ammunition, wagons, horses and mules from their home bases in Virginia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, a distance of more than 900 miles, in just nine days. Only a few weeks later, Federal forces under the command of Major General Joseph Hooker broke this record by moving more than 20,000 troops and their supplies 1,157 miles in five days on orders to relieve Gen. William Rosecrans who was under siege in Chattanooga at the hands of the recently reinforced Confederates. Both moves took place in September, 1863.
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Abbey House of Franklinton was one of the many civilian women who voluntarily nursed the sick and wounded during the Civil War. Originally featured in Land We Love (May/June 1867), a monthly magazine edited by former Confederate General D. H. Hill, “Aunt†Abby traveled without charge on the South's railroads and hitchhiked to battlefields to offer her assistance. She was also a regular visitor to the rail yards of Franklinton, greeting the trains that brought wounded soldiers back to North Carolina.
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The year 2008 marks the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Thirty-three North Carolina regiments containing over 12,000 soldiers fought there. Hodge describes three of the regiments--the 26th, 6th, and 55th.
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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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The most successful Confederate spy, in terms of turning in the most important and vital military information, was probably Washington socialite Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Wealthy, educated, and widowed, Mrs. Greenhow used her luxurious home as the center of Confederate espionage activities, apparently making little or no effort to hide her support of the South. Arousing the suspicion of Federal authorities, Mrs. Greenhow was shadowed by Allen Pinkerton and arrested by Union forces for espionage. Despite being sentenced to house arrest, Mrs. Greenhow continued her work for the Confederate cause, including a secret mission to Europe in 1862. Greenhow drowned on the return voyage in 1864 when her ship ran aground near Fort Fisher.
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Henry Armand London, a North Carolinian, played two unique roles at Appomattox. He carried the message calling on Cox's Carolina Brigade to make the last charge in Lee's army and he carried the last order ever given in Lee's army which was the order to cease firing after Lee had surrendered. A private at the time, London went on to become a distinguished legislator, lawyer, and editor in North Carolina after the Civil War.
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14.When Governor Ellis Said \"No\" to Lincoln by Hardesty, Fred The State Vol. 38 Issue 23, May 1971
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After Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter on April, 12, 1861, North Carolina remained at peace and in the Union, having already rejected by popular vote a proposed state convention for the discussion of secession. However, when President Lincoln requested troops to quell what he called the Southern insurrection, Governor Ellis' mood and that of the general public changed. Governor Ellis replied that the Union cause \"can get no troops from North Carolina\" and he immediately ordered the seizure of U.S. Forts Caswell and Johnson at the mouth of the Cape Fear, the U.S. Mint in Charlotte, and the U.S. Arsenal in Fayetteville. He then called for an emergency convention, slated for May 20, at which all 120 delegates voted unanimously for secession.
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Belle Boyd was admired by men, sneered at by women, galloped through enemy lines with messages for Stonewall Jackson, hounded by Secretary of War Stanton, shown clemency by President Lincoln and eventually became a peacetime stage celebrity. Such was the life and times of Belle Boyd, the woman considered second only to Rose O'Neal Greenhow as the Confederacy's most successful female spy. Boyd was twice captured by Federal authorities and imprisoned both times. Her first capture was on orders from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton. After her release, Boyd sought out Confederate President Jefferson Davis and gained his consent for her to carry important dispatches to Europe. Her second capture came on this trip, as her vessel, the GREYHOUND, was captured by a Federal cruiser for attempting to smuggle a large shipment of cotton out of Wilmington for sale in Europe.
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