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There are a number of Civil War sites in the state that visitors can see and tour. Bockert describes a few located in the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountains.
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Garrison uses historical sources to create a day in the life of a soldier doing camp activities.
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14358
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Using historical sources, Garrison recreates what a Civil War recruiting day was like in communities throughout the state.
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14359
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North Carolina's Civil War soldiers carried and fought under four different kinds of flags: state, company, national, and battle flags. After the hostilities ended, many of these were brought home, while others had been captured and taken home by Northern states or the Federal Government. Many of these have now been returned. The Museum of History in Raleigh has the largest collection of Confederate flags held by any state-operated museum in the South.
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14360
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Many historians consider the American Civil War the first modern war because of the advances in weaponry. Duppsdadt examines four of these advances: rifled weapons; changing from sailing ships to steam-powered ones; ironclad warships and submarines; and torpedoes and land mines.
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14361
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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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14362
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As the Civil War progressed, the Confederacy was faced with a dwindling supply of soldiers. To offset this, the Confederate Congress passed a conscription law, or draft. A section of the law, passed in early 1864, required 17-year-olds and men aged 45 to 50 to join up. The boys were called the Junior Reserves and the men the Senior Reserves.
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Meekins describes the problems faced by women, children, older citizens, and others who maintained the home front during the Civil War. They dealt with situations like shortages of sugar, coffee, and flour; difficulties in planting and harvesting crops; and high prices caused by speculators.
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14383
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Providing military leaders was one of the many contributions North Carolina made to the Confederate cause. Almost three dozen men served as generals of various ranks. Barefoot focuses on two of them - Robert F. Hoke and Stephen Dodson Ramseur. Born four days and thirty miles apart in 1837, they were friends for life, but each met different fates. Hoke survived the war as the state's top general, but Ramseur was killed in the fighting in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Barely a year after North Carolina seceded, General Ambrose Burnside and 11,000 soldiers captured New Bern in March 1862. The city was vital to the South as a port and as a railroad hub. Leaving their property behind, many citizens fled the city, but a number remained to endure the occupation. Letters, memoirs, sketches, and other primary sources from both the North and South provide a picture of New Bern under occupation.
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14385
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In 1862, Union troops under General Ambrose Burnside occupied New Bern and a large portion of Eastern North Carolina. Escaping slaves found a safe haven behind their lines and soon became a source of wartime labor and even military service for the Union. A number formed a community of churches, schools, and homes on Roanoke Island which soon grew to 3,500 men, women, and children by 1864. Lanier interviewed Virginia Simmons Tillet, one of the colony's descendants, about this little-known Civil War story.
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14867
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During the Civil War free and enslaved African Americans fled to the safety of Union-occupied northeastern North Carolina. There they served the Union action against the Confederates as spies, river pilots, messengers, guides, and laborers. Many joined the Northern army in units which at that time were called the United States Colored Troops. Haley provides examples of this military service.
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14868
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Developed before the Civil War, photography provided a new method of recording historic events. While it thrived in the North through the efforts of Matthew Brady and others, no Southern photographer left a comparable archive. This was because many photographers went out of business, became soldiers, or had difficulty getting supplies because of the Union blockade. What remains in the state are photographs of soldiers.
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14871
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One tactic used by the North to end the Civil War quicker was cutting off supplies to the South from Northern and European ports. Reducing needed food, clothing and weapons to fight would curtail the South's ability to carry on the war. To accomplish this, the North sent the Navy to blockade major Southern ports and smaller ports of entry. The South countered by building fast blockade runners to escape the Union Navy.
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