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This image shows the escape attempt of US POWs at Salisbury prison in December 1864. The drawing

Colosseum at dusk

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

Engagement between USS Monticello and Confederates at Kinnakeet.

Engagement between USS Albatross and N.C. steamer Beaufort near Bodie Island.

4/11, Payroll: $426.00, Expenses: $2986.93, Sales: 10036 lbs. pig iron at $.50/lb ($5018.00)
4/30, Payroll: $967.35, Expenses: $4793.37
5/11, Payroll: $546.67, Expenses: $225.00, Sales: 43598 lbs ($21,799.00)
5/17, Payroll: $1357.11, Expenses:…

Remarks by the Claims Commissioner on the claim of Mr. Williamson, which says that he was a freedman before the war

I often hear from non-history majors how hard history is because of all the memorization of facts and dates. I usually respond by stating that historians do not always memorize dates but, more significantly, understand time periods. While not as…

On May 13, 1861, North Carolinian voters elected delegates to a convention to consider secession.