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14110
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Carolinians who served in the Confederate Congress were members of an elite, and you will find many of their names still prominent in various sections of North Carolina.
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14115
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The name was Daniel Harvey Hill. In his youth he was an outstanding educator; later he became one of the greatest soldiers in the Confederate Army.
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Mr. Lawrence gives an account of some of the tremendous difficulties which North Carolina had to overcome in getting vital supplies to its ports during the Civil War period.
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In this article, the author introduces readers to a devout man of the cloth, as well as a devote man to the South. Reverend A. A. Watson, of Wilmington, showed his loyalties to the Southern cause when he refused to cease praying to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Union forces had occupied Wilmington beginning January 15, 1865 after the fall of Fort Fisher. Though defeated militarily, a few staunch Southern supporters still showed their faithfulness to the South by denying Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
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At the close of the Civil War, the southern states were no longer recognized as such, but became military districts; the Carolinas became District number 2, under the command of the Federal General Daniel E. Sickles.
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Umfleet discusses how North Carolina women mourned the deaths of brothers, fathers, and husbands during the Civil War. Society expected women to dress in black and wear special jewelry. Men would wear a black armband to mourn a loss.
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14434
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Jonathan Worth's services during and following the Civil War were outstanding, and the notes that he kept reveal an interesting story concerning that period of American and North Carolinian history.
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14589
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For a while the Albemarle was a thorn in the side of the Yankees, but eventually she was sunk as the result of one of the most daring exploits of the Civil War.
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There were several forts along the coast during the days of the Civil War. Most important and last to fall was Fort Fisher, below Wilmington.
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The youngest solider on either side during the American Civil War was a native North Carolinian, the late George H. Jacobs, of South Mills, who enlisted as a drummer boy in the Confederate army at the age of nine.
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15582
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By day Frank Lanning is a product designer for Yale Security Systems in Monroe. By night and on weekends he is Levi Ledbetter, arms merchant, of the Civil War. His business, C&L Canteen Works is North Carolina's largest volume Civil War sutler (merchant), catering to a growing market of reenactment hobbyists. Customers, who can chose items from a list of two hundred come from all around the country and from England and Germany.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 7 Issue 6, June 1987,
p62-63, 65, 67, il, por
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In Gerard's introduction to his eight-part series on the Civil War, he writes Dr. John D. Bellamy was the epitome of Southern gentry; unfailingly loyal to the Confederacy and profiting from slave labor. Bellamy owned three plantations and approximately 1,000 slaves, the profits from just one plantation paid for his family's mansion in downtown Wilmington. After the outbreak of war, Bellamy sent a contingency of his slaves to construct sand forts along Cape Fear River with no compensation from the Confederate Government. Bellamy and his family later fled Wilmington, the town he helped fortify, after the yellow fever outbreak in 1862 to find refuge at Floral College.
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Part five of Gerard's eight-part series on the Civil War is about William Henry Asbury Speer of Yadkin represents the conflicted Confederate soldier; hesitant to fight but determined to defend his state. He was appointed captain of Company I, 28th Regiment of North Carolina Troops. During the course of the war he would be captured and transported to several northern prisoner of war camps, returned to service, and placed in charge of troops in almost every major engagement. He perished at the Battle of Reams' Station near Petersburg, Virginia in 1864.
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After 125 years, the Civil War continued to ignite curiosity and passion for Americans. Mobley reflects on the amount of Civil War topics presented in books, journals, and pop culture and why Americans remained fascinated with this particular American conflict.
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16709
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Dr. Leutze reviews the Civil War within state borders as a lens to analyze the war's repercussions nationally. The state reflected larger national trends in that it lost many of its young men, was left in economic turmoil, and had a population emotionally and physically drained.
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