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for "North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865"
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In 1864, Confederate soldiers, assisted by local secret agents in Carteret County, undertook to destroy the Cape Lookout Lighthouse to prevent its capture and use by Federal troops.
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10777
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Williams recounts an incident from the Civil War which occurred at the Charles Howard plantation near Salemburg as General William Sherman and his army was advancing toward Raleigh.
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Millions of visitors have strolled through Fort Macon, located on Bogue Banks across from Beaufort and Morehead City. But few visitors know the details of the fort's fall to Union General Ambrose Burnside on Friday, April 25, 1862. This article contains an account of the battle given by an unnamed correspondent for the NEW YORK TIMES, an eye-witness to the attack, reprinted in its entirety as it appeared in the paper.
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Every item in the Blockade Runner Museum is arranged to express a single theme: What life was like in the Lower Cape Fear section during the Federal blockade days of the Civil War. Relics, artifacts, maps, models, and dioramas are dramatically arranged to make visitors feel more like participants than observers. John Foard, a retired textile executive, realized a lifelong ambition when he joined with several friends to build the museum.
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Price describes events in Southport while a young boy growing up there during the Civil War.
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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. Few people attended the wedding, and eventually Atkins and his bride disgustedly returned to Illinois. The people of the state never forgave Swain and eventually the University closed.
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Appointed Brigadier General of the Southern states upon secession, West Point graduate and South Carolina native Thomas Fenwick Drayton, served the Confederacy throughout the Civil War. Moving to Charlotte upon conclusion of the conflict, Drayton assisted the community for twenty years in local insurance as well as preformed the duty vestryman at St. Peter's. Interred at Elwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina, Drayton died in 1891 and was revered for his service, kindness, and distinction.
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Josiah Pender was a blockade runner during the Civil War. After the death of his first wife, Pender married Laura Melvina Pender of Tarboro in 1862. She traveled with him on many voyages and composed numerous letters that documented the drama of blockade running. On one journey aboard The Advance from Bermuda to Tarboro in 1863, Mrs. Pender, who was expecting her first child, took command of the ship when the captain was indecisive, and ran the Wilmington blockade under a barrage of cannon fire from the Union ships.
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The trenches on the Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site provide a visual testament to North Carolina's bloodiest Civil War battle. Some 90,000 Northern and Southern soldiers clashed there in March of 1865, with 4,243 casualties the result. The Confederacy's last hope required that General Johnston stop General Sherman in Bentonville. General Lee surrendered shortly after Johnston's retreat.
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John Foard, president of Kluttz rings of Gastonia, likely knows more about 12-pound Gun-Howitzers than many Confederate and Union soldiers who used them during the Civil War. An old artilleryman himself, Foard has specialized in the study of weapons used during the Civil War. Foard's research included trips to battlefields, as well as obtaining information on the gun from French archives.
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In 1864, Raleigh publishers advertised a thin pamphlet \"The Jack Morgan Songster,\" the latest and most popular songs, for $1. The book was designed as a handy collection of songs for use by the soldier around the campfire, compact and light enough to be carried on the march.
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Zebulon Baird Vance, \"war governor\" from 1862-1865, was likely the most popular and beloved chief executive in all of North Carolina history. The Confederate policy of impressing private property for military uses provoked bitter protest between Vance and Confederate President Davis. Though a critic of Davis and the Confederate government, his policy was to \"fight the Yankees and fuss with the Confederacy.\"
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In 1880, a correspondent and artist for LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED came to Raleigh to interview General Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the last Confederate Army in the field, surrendering near Durham. Joseph's surrender to General Sherman occurred April 26, 1865.
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Reprinted from a booklet titled, Facts about the Civil War, published by the Civil War Centennial Commission, this article reiterates numerous obscure details related to the infamous conflict.
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Removed from Richmond, Virginia on 02 April 1865 and valued at nearly $13 million dollars, the Confederacy's, \"last treasure,\" was dispatched with Captain William H. Parker, C.S.N., and approximately sixty naval cadets for safe keeping. Packed into boxes, crates, and canvas sacks, the \"last treasure\"Â, moved from Washington to Georgia, via a multitude of stops, concluding in Abbeville, under the protection of the escort for President Jefferson Davies.
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