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Acclaimed as "the finest state roster ever published" and a "magnificent achievement," North Carolina Troops is an invaluable resource for scholars, local historians, genealogists, and Civil War enthusiasts. Each indexed volume contains unit histories and the names and service records of approximately 7,000 North Carolinians who served in the Civil War.

The three essays in this volume illuminate Nathaniel Macon's character, motivations, and values as demonstrated in his life and career--his agrarianism, his beliefs, his personality, his milieu, his politics, and, above all, his steadfast devotion to what he believed to be the legacy of the American Revolution.

Based primarily on previously unpublished interviews with Paul Green, Watering the Sahara is a compelling study that chronicles the dramatist's life from childhood in rural Harnett County to military service in World War I, the beginnings of his career as both educator and writer, his work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and the theater collaborations that culminated in the creation of the symphonic drama The Lost Colony. Extensive quotation from the interviews provides the reader with new insight into the complexity of North Carolina's leading playwright.

This tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1,513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The markers are conveniently grouped by county, and the counties are arranged alphabetically. Included are separate maps for each of the 100 counties and 107 additional illustrations.

Contains lists of persons who took passage on ships from Great Britain to North Carolina. The lists include nearly 100 emigrants from England and nearly 500 emigrants, including 100 family groups, from Scotland.

This volume of edited church diaries and minute books kept by Moravian ministers covers a momentous period in North Carolina's history--the aftermath and recovery from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

"Commemorative edition published in cooperation with the Coe Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc."

Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.

From the Roanoke Colonies to the dawn of the twenty-first century, the story of North Carolina's governors is a prism through which to view Tar Heel history. This volume contains biographical sketches of the ninety-nine men, from Ralph Lane to Michael F. Easley, who have served as North Carolina's chief executive. Arranged alphabetically, the informative biographical sketches are accompanied by pictures or signatures of the governors.

The revised edition of a text originally published in 1963, this book explores the history of the Twenty-sixth Regimental Band, North Carolina Troops, C.S.A., which was composed of Moravian musicians from Salem. The first section discusses Moravian musical traditions during the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries and traces the band's Confederate service for over 3 years, including their participation in the battles of New Bern, Malvern Hill, and Gettysburg.

Amputations constituted roughly 75 percent of all operations performed during the Civil War. This pioneering study examines North Carolina's program to supply and fit its Confederate amputees with artificial arms and legs.

Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining the yoke of slavery, slave resistance, manumission, and the challenges facing free blacks. This book presents in an accessible format a variety of primary sources, which are suitable for classroom use and have appeal for historians, genealogists, and anyone curious about the lives of black North Carolinians during the earliest years of the state's history.

This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of the mystery surrounding the establishment, struggle, and disappearance of English colonies on Roanoke Island in the 1580s.

This popular title presents an overview of Civil War North Carolina, with information on secession, preparations for war, battles fought in North Carolina, blockade-running, and the coming of peace. The book contains a map of North Carolina, 1861-1865.

Acclaimed as "the finest state roster ever published" and a "magnificent achievement," North Carolina Troops is an invaluable resource for scholars, local historians, genealogists, and Civil War enthusiasts. Each indexed volume contains unit histories and the names and service records of approximately 7,000 North Carolinians who served in the Civil War.

With an annual attendance of 800,000, the North Carolina State Fair is the state's largest event and is the largest ten-day agricultural fair in the United States. Published jointly with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, this volume is the most comprehensive account of the people, politics, and events that have shaped the annual autumn event. Over three hundred photographs, many in full color, vividly portray the fair's history.

Created in 1779, Randolph County is located in the center of North Carolina's Piedmont region. This concise volume traces the history of the county from its pre-colonial Native American habitation through European settlement in the eighteenth century, growing industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its establishment as a national tourist destination in the twenty-first century.

Traces the history of the North Carolina Historical Commission, predecessor of the present-day North Carolina Office of Archives and History, from its beginning in 1903 through the first years of the twenty-first century.

Examines state-funded transportation improvements from the early years of the nineteenth century to the start of the Civil War. Individual chapters are devoted to roads, bridges, inland navigation, canals, inlets, railroads, and steam navigation. This book is available in an eBook edition under the title Transportation in Antebellum North Carolina.

This handsome volume contains more than 85 striking drawings of the Weller Vineyard (located in western Halifax County) and its operations during the 1870s. Mortimer O. Heath's drawing provide a charming and personal view of life in North Carolina in the 1872, as well as a unique record of an industry now being revived.

In North Carolina's proprietary period (1663-1729), the primary means of acquiring land was by headright. A free person was allowed to claim a specified amount of land for each person, including himself/herself, that he/she transported into the colony for the purpose of settlement. While the amount of land attached to a headright varied throughout the era, the most common amount was fifty acres.

Contains more than two hundred previously unpublished Civil War letters written by John A. Hedrick, the U.S. Treasury Department collector for the port of Beaufort.

This volume contains biographical sketches and photographs of twenty-six first ladies, from Helen W. Fowle to Carolyn L. Hunt, who lived in North Carolina's Executive Mansion from 1891 to 2001.

Papers of the Hillsborough native who was editor of the Raleigh North Carolina Standard and leader of the pre-Civil War state Democratic Party. Holden helped organize the Republican Party in North Carolina and in 1868 was elected governor.

Presents the marvelous diversity of life among North Carolinians prior to 1800 through carefully selected correspondence, journals, travel accounts, court proceedings, deeds, wills, inventories of estates, church records, newspapers, and other documentary evidence. This paperback volume examines the character of early Carolinians, their homes and furnishings, and family life.

Contains twenty-two essays on diverse topics about gold throughout history, written by historians, professional geologists, and other scientists.