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The General Assembly called for a vote on whether or not the state should hold a secession convention. The election, held on February 28, 1861, resulted in a rejection of secessionists in favor of unionists.

On January 29, 1861, the General Assembly voted to send delegates to the Peace Conference. The conference was to be held on February 4, 1861.

This is Page 3 of George Bond's accepted claim. It lists all of the items seized by union foraging parties, with valuation provided by him.

The commission itself was formed by act of congress on March 3, 1871 to handle reimbursement requests by…

George Rable's book, Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics, takes the Confederate political culture and assesses it in its "own right" instead of a Southern problematic characteristic. Rable takes an in-depth look at the underlying…

George H. White (1852-1918) was a Republican Congressman from the Second District of North Carolina and the only African-American Representative in Congress between 1898 and 1901. Before assuming this national office, White served as a State…

My courageous mother saw her husband, Doctor James H. Hicks, carried away in the night by the soldiers on the pretext of attending a sick man. She pled with him not to go but his one thought was to relieve suffering. He was carried far away and when…

Governor Henry Toole Clark demanded that the Confederate government send a regiment of Confederate soldiers to Hyde County to suppress the "evil influences" of Unionism extending to the mainland from the Outer Banks. Major E. D. Hall and the 7th…

On April 15, 1861, Governor John W. Ellis ordered the seizure of Fort Macon.

On April 22, 1861, Governor John W. Ellis ordered the seizure of the Fayetteville Arsenal.

On April 15, 1861, Governor John W. Ellis informed President Abraham Lincoln he "can get no troops from North Carolina" (following Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to supress the brewing insurrection after the fall of Fort Sumter and the…