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22950
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Smithville was the first community in North Carolina to advocate secession; Greenville followed Smithville on January 11, 1861, with a 100-gun salute. Pitt County's diverse population made it a very important battleground in the war. In 1860, Pitt County's population consisted of 7,840 whites, 127 free blacks, and 8,473 slaves. G. B. Singletary formed the first military company in Pitt County, followed by the Tar River Guards and the Marlboro Guards. The first incident occurred on June 5, 1862, at Tranters Creek. Later that year, Yankees invaded Greenville on October 9th coming up the river in gun boats, raiding stores and arresting all the men in the Courthouse. The largest military activity was General Potter's raid in July 1863. There were skirmishes at Haddocks Cross Roads, Red Banks Church and Black Jack Church.
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23392
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Smithville was the first community in North Carolina to advocate secession; Greenville followed Smithville on January 11, 1861, with a 100-gun salute. The citizens of Greenville, N.C. held a meeting and adopted resolutions for a Secession Convention. F.B. Satterthwaite and Bryan Grimes represented Pitt County at the Raleigh Secession Convention on May 20, 1861. About 2,000 Pitt County men joined the Confederate militia, and about the same number of black men joined the Federal militia. Pitt County’s diverse population made it a very important battleground in the war. In 1860, Pitt County’s population consisted of 7,840 whites, 127 free blacks, and 8,473 slaves. The first incident of the Civil War involving Pitt County occurred on June 5, 1862 at Tranter’s Mill, on Tranters Creek. Union troops fired shells at the rebel cavalry near Pactolus on June 9, 1862. In July 1862, Capt. Ayres’ artillery company fired on “Yankee Hall.” Federal soldiers from Washington invaded Greenville on October 9, 1862. Union Troops from New Bern under the command of Gen. Edward E. Potter marched through Greenville in July 1863, raiding and looting local businesses. They continued on to Tarboro, and upon coming back through Pitt County, they were assaulted by rebel soldiers near Falkland. Confederate soldiers chased them all the way back to New Bern. Federal troops under Capt. Graham captured Maj. John N. Whitford’s Battalion on November 5, 1863 near Haddock’s Crossroads. On December 30, 1863, rebel troops under Major Moore attacked Federal troops six miles below Greenville. Greenville women operated two hospitals for the wounded: one in the academy that is now the site of Sheppard Memorial Library and one in the Greene-Moye-Skinner house.
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23515
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Articles from area newspapers are pulled together to tell tales from the Civil War, including the story of Bryan Buck, Civil War veteran, ready to go into the Spanish-American War in 1898. The story of W. I. Whitehurst and the part he played in the volley that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. The story of Frank, George and David Crawford, sons of Calvin Crawford, and their antedotes from the war. The story of Jesse Vincent, Reuben Kinsaul, Calvin Mills, and Jesse T. Forrest, Confederate veterans. The story of J. H. P. Bryan and his coat and knife from the war. The story of Matthew Hart, an area Civil War veteran who engaged in 17 battles and on each occasion tied a red string around his arm. The humorous story of Warren McGlawhorn, who fell in a ditch. The story of Dan Thomas, who lived and died in Pitt County, was the only Confederate to plant a flag on the enemy's works at Gettysburg. And lastly, the story of Edward Brown, who lived like a hermit and didn’t know the Civil War ended.
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31781
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In Sept. 1910, W. E. Whitmore of Scotland Neck was visiting family in Greenville. He was a Confederate veteran and during the Civil War was stationed near Red Banks Church, where two of his comrades were killed and one captured when on picket duty in attempting to prevent an advance of Federal troops on Greenville. He and R. R. Cotton were in the same company.
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31891
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From an article about the Confederate Reunion held in Greenville, NC in Sept. 1895—it gives a large list of members and the companies they belonged to in the Civil War.
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31892
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From a deposition of Dinah Taft, former slave of Bryan Hardee, who married first to Fred Venters and then Noah Taft. Noah Taft ran away and became a Federal Soldier in the Civil War and was due a pension.
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31893
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Articles include: Bryan Buck, D. H. James, C. D. Rountree, A. L. Blow, Titus Elks, Arnold Baldree, Mrs. Lucinda Wainwright, Jim Wainright, John Cannon, Jesse Vincent, Reuben Kinsaul, E. C. Yellowley, George B. Singeltary, Henry David, J. F. Whichard, Simon E. Nobles, Jesse Barnhill, Warren McLawhorn, Dan Thomas, Calvin Mills, Edward Brown, J. B. Whitehurst, Green Manning, Mrs. Laura Dudley Griffin, Robert L. Griffin, William H. Renfrew.
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31894
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Found in the Frederick C. Douglass Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. Names include: Henry Boyd, John Boyd, John Blango, Thomas Blango, Pheobe Boyd Cobbs, William Laughinghouse, Isaac Evans, Martha Boyd, Albert Gorham, Albert Eason, Silas Shepard, Austin Shepard, Simon Tyson, Sherrod Tyson, Nathan Sanders, Joseph Harris, Lawrence Cotton, Isaac Waters, Phillis Harris, Spencer Harris, Ellen Bynum, Lewis Shepard, Luvenia Shepard, Benjamin Anderson, Sarah Atkinson, Reuben Howard, Gatsie Shepard, Maria Stanton, Jennie Cherry, Noah Taft, Lucy Hardy.
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31895
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Names include: Joseph H. Gray 1894, Jesse T. Forrest 1895, Martin Corbitt 1898, John Elks 1900, W. B. Moore 1904, Henry Strickland 1904, John F. Whichard 1905, Worrell Moore 1909, J. E. Randolph 1909, Henry A. Blow 1910, Benjamin Smith 1910, Mc D Horton 1911, Joab Tyson 1912, E. P. Fleming 1912, Shade S. Jackson 1912, John B. Worsley 1914, Bryant Tripp 1922, John T. Jenkins 1923, J. T. Smith 1923, W. J. Fleming 1924, Sylvester Fleming 1924, Jesse Braxton 1929, Mrs. Willie P. Gardner 1969.
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31896
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Article about life and Civil War service of J. R. Davenport, of Pactolus, NC. Includes pen & ink sketch of J. R. Davenport drawn by Roger Kammerer.
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31898
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Pen & Ink drawing drawn by Roger Kammerer.
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31899
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This a letter dated July 28, 1863 sent to Gov. Zebulon B. Vance from Mrs. Susan Streeter Atkinson of Pitt County, telling of the depredations done by Gen. Potter’s raid through Pitt County.
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31929
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List of Civil War veterans from Pitt County receiving their pension in 1896.
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31934
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List of Pitt County widows in 1896 eligible for Civil War pensions.
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32251
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This feature article from 1904 tells of the heroic exploits of Taylor Harris, of Pitt County, during the siege of Ft. Fisher in 1864.
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