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21287
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Peacock discusses the Union campaign led by General Ambrose Burnside to capture Roanoke Island, its place in the grand strategy to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, and why this battle may have been the critical one in determining the war's outcome.
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21288
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During the advance of General William T. Sherman's army through North and South Carolina in the spring of 1865, it was opposed by a Confederate cavalry force of some 6,000 cavalrymen. The cavalry performed well in the field considering their need for more personnel, horses, and supplies. Brown recounts the movements of the cavalry, the discord between the two commanders--Generals Hampton and Wheeler, the fighting, and the success of their operations.
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21296
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Electrician's Mate 2nd Class Leo Hartland Hardy of Aurora, NC, served aboard one of the US Navy ships operating off the north Russian coast 1918-1919. He was aboard the destroyer USS J. Fred Talbot. They were there in support of American, British, and other countries' troops that were sent there in support of the White Russians who were fighting against the Bolsheviks. The US had sent 4,500 men and over 500 had been killed between September 1918 and July 1919. Hardy wrote a series of letters, with interesting and sometimes shocking observations, about what happened there. These letters are now preserved in the Military Collection of the North Carolina State Archives.
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21297
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Alexander relates events experienced by the crew of the Unites States Minesweeper YMS 195 during World War II. The Executive Officer, and later her Captain, was Armistead Jones Maupin of Raleigh. He is now 83 years old, and lives with his wife in Raleigh.
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21298
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Documents relating to North Carolina's military activities from the reign of Queen Anne down to the 20th century have survived in varying quantities. Stevenson discusses the military activities in the state during the Colonial Period and the records that resulted from it. All conflict is arranged in chronological order--the Tuscarora War, 1711-1715; The Spanish Alarm, 1739-1748; The French and Indian War, 1755-1763; The War of the Regulation, 1768-1771; and the Colonial and State Militias during the Revolutionary War.
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21299
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Porter relates a brief history of Nation Guard units in North Carolina during peacetime and wartime from the Colonial Period to the period since the end of World War II, 1945-1984.
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21300
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During the first few months of World War II, German submarines sank over sixty ships off North Carolina's Outer Banks. Cheatham recounts experiences of North Carolinians living on the Outer Banks, the sinkings, and the incident involving the British vessel, Bedfordshire.
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21302
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Major-General William H.C. Whiting was the district commander at Wilmington, and in 1864, General Braxton Bragg was sent to take over his duties. In January 1865, Union forces launched their attack on Fort Fisher and in a few days captured it. Pleasants examines two options that Bragg had that might have saved the fort and \"concluded that General Bragg was the major culprit behind the fiasco\" that cost the Confederates their coastal stronghold.
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21313
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Samuel I. Parker, born in Monroe, NC, in 1891, holds the distinction of being the most decorated American soldier of World War I. He is the recipient of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, for his actions in the Battle of Soissons, France. He is the country's first military man to receive the nation's three highest military honors for valor in battle. He was a lieutenant at the time and later served as a colonel in World War II.
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21314
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During the 20th century over one million North Carolinians have served in the nation's military. All who wear the uniform are heroes. Harrington relates the stories of four who demonstrated the spirit of selfless service and devotion to duty--Robert Lester Blackwell (WW I), James D. Lancaster (WW II), Jerry K. Crump (Korea), and Hiram Strickland (Vietnam).
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21315
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Bailey, from Zebulon, was executive officer of Battery A of the 64th Field Artillery Battalion at their position in the Masan Perimeter. He described a company-size attack by North Korean troops on their position on the 2nd and 3rd of September 1950. A number of North Carolinians served in the battery. Two who were killed received Bronze Stars, and the battery's two medics received Bronze Stars for treating the wounded while under fire.
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21316
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John Wilson Crowell, who was the great-grandfather of Laura Winslow, was born in Union County in 1819. He was the fourth of eleven children, and the father of seven. At the age of forty-three he joined the 37th Regiment North Carolina Troops. Campbell's article consists of Crowell's genealogy and a series of letters he wrote home from Virginia in 1863-1864. He was killed in the fighting at Fussell's Mill, Virginia, August 18, 1864.
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21317
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Alexander explores the brief but eventful life of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch. He studied law at Cambridge Law School and practiced law in Florida. There he served six months fighting the Seminole Indians. He returned home in 1848 and set up a practice in Raleigh and became involved in politics. The bulk of the article consists of his service at the Civil War in which he was a General. He was in the fight at New Bern, campaigned in Virginia, fought in the Seven Days Battle and at Cedar Mountain, and later Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, where he was killed.
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21330
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Walters, of Raleigh, NC, begins his diary in a foxhole in France on 12 March 1945. In it he relates his experiences during the last push across Germany, seeing the horrors of the concentration camps, and serving in occupation forces until he returned home March 1946. After the war, Walters was Mayor Pro-tem for the city of Raleigh for ten years. Before he retired, he operated a hardware business for forty years. He died in Raleigh in 2004 at age 82.
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21331
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There were legions of common soldiers who served in the Civil War. For many their story remains untold. Through reading Fox's account of the 1st Cavalry and its commander, one can develop a picture of what life was like for the common soldier. Their story is like many of the private soldiers--hunger, boredom, fatigue, loneliness, and death. The regiment was engaged in over 150 actions. Barringer took part in 76 battles and was wounded three times.
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