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Destruction of Confederate fortifications on Beacon Island, Ocracoke Inlet.

Capture of U.S. transport Fanny.

Affair at Chicamacomico, Loggerhead Inlet.

Engagement between USS Monticello and Confederates at Kinnakeet.

Engagement between USS Monticello and masked Confederate battery near New Inlet (Outer Banks).

Expedition to destroy former light-ship of Wilmington.

"A large portion of the citizens of Craven" met in a meeting on December 12, 1860, to discuss "the present alarming state of national affairs." The citizens noted that white North Carolinians possessed a common interest with the "slaveholding states"…

On December 12, 1860, citizens of Craven County met in response to the secession crisis. The meeting called for the North to adopt compromises that would protect the institution of slavery and also called for North Carolina to organize a convention…

Daniel Harvey (D. H.) Hill (1859-1924), the son of Confederate general D. H. Hill, was an important figure in the commemoration of the Civil War and Reconstruction in North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through his…

These arms have no equals in quality and finish; are adopted by the Army and Navy of the United States, and the principal governments of Europe; are uniform in all their parts, are simple, safe, sure serviceable, and can be had in one hundred…