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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.

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…

The story of slavery in the State of North Carolina may be considered in two parts, the dividing point of which is the year 1831. Before this year the general conditions of the slave were more humane than after it. Public feeling on the question was…

The image is of Sherman's men destroying a portion of a railroad in Atlanta, before marching towards Savannah. The name "Sherman's neckties," came from how the men bent the steel so that it could not be used again by the South. The bent steel…

William Woods Holden was the Governor of North Carolina throughout the period of our nation's history known as Reconstruction. Governor Holden would become to be the first state governor to be impeached and subsequently convicted, in American…