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USS Roanoke anchored at Cape Fear and observed Fort Caswell.

On November 19, 1860, secessionists held a meeting in New Hanover County.

On November 12, 1860, secessionists held a meeting in Cleveland County.

Residents on the Outer Banks begin taking an Oath of Allegiance and swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Passage of USS Roanoke from Hampton Roads, Va. and engagement with Confederate batteries at Hatteras Inlet.

The presidential election of 1860 featured a four-way race between John C. Breckinridge, the southern Democratic nominee from Kentucky running on a federal slave code platform; Stephen A. Douglas, the northern Democratic nominee from Illinois running…

On February 28, 1861, North Carolinian voters decided against convening a convention to consider secession by a vote of 47,322 to 46,672. In an irrelevant vote, since the convention did not meet, North Carolinian voters also chose 50 unconditional…

On May 20, 1861, North Carolina convention called to consider secession voted to secede from the Union.

On March 3rd 1865, bands of the Home Guard, under orders of Robert McKenzie, the leader of the Home Guard in the region, collected several members of the Lowry family to his plantation after several animals from his plantation were stolen. Suspecting…

Governor John W. Ellis died of tuberculosis in Virginia, and speaker Henry T. Clark is elevated to the governorship. Both Ellis and Clark were members of the Democratic Party.