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1. SCAPNC_071204_104.JPG: North Carolina State Capitol: Last Message Sent: The Carolinas Campaign began on February 1, 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman led his army north from Savannah, Georgia, after the March to the Sea. Sherman's objective was to join Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia to crush Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Scattered Confederate forces consolidated in North Carolina, the Confederacy's logistical lifeline, where Sherman defeated Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's last-ditch attack at Bentonville. After Sherman was reinforced at Goldsboro late in March, Johnston saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered on April 26, essentially ending the Civil War. North Carolina's official Civil War experience began and ended here. In April 1861, Governor John W. Ellis rejected President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to suppress the "rebellion" with the words, "You can get no troops from North Carolina." A special convention met in the capitol's Commons Hall and on May 20 adopted a secession ordinance that was celebrated with a 100-round artillery salute. After Ellis' untimely death on July 7, Zebulon B. Vance was elected governor and led the state from his office here until April 12, 1865. For a time, the capitol also served as a supply depot -- the only Southern capitol to serve that purpose. Captured U.S. regimental flags hung from the legislature's balconies. On April 12, 1865, Vance's emissaries, former governors David L. Swain and William A. Graham, surrendered the capitol and Raleigh to Union Gen. William T. Sherman. The 75,000-man Federal army entered the city the next day. Union soldiers discovered coastal lighthouse lenses stored in the capitol, and one soldier stole the state's 1789 copy of the Bill of Rights. U.S. Army Signal Corps Lt. George C. Round established a signal station atop the capitol dome on April 14, after almost losing his life the previous night when he accidentally jumped onto the rotunda skylight and partially fell through it. On the evening of April 26, after Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's surrender, Round sent an "extraordinary message" fro the dome with colorful signal rockets -- "Peace on Earth Good Will to Men" -- believed to be the "last signal message of the war." Sherman's army departed early in May, and North Carolina's legislature repealed the secession ordinance in October 1865, while under military occupation.
2. SCAPNC_071204_109.JPG: North Carolina Civil War Trails North Carolina's Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound the naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids, and the Confederacy's struggle to supply its armies. Other tales are told in the western mountains, a sometimes-lawless region where Unionists and Confederates fought a war within the war. In the rolling central piedmont, memories linger of Union Gen. William T. Sherman's relentless march north early in the spring of 1865, when his army defeated the Confederates under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Finally, on April 26, Johnston surrendered, essentially ending the Civil War. Experience these and many more stories as you tour the North Carolina Civil War Trails. Please drive carefully as you visit the sites where ironclads and wooden ships, spies and smugglers, heroes and villains, slaves and soldiers engaged in the greatest conflict in American history.
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Wikipedia Description: North Carolina State Capitol
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The North Carolina State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Housing the offices of the Governor and (formerly) the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, it is located in the state capital of Raleigh on One East Edenton Street. The Greek Revival building was designed by the firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis and completed in 1840.

Until 1888, the building held the entire state government. The North Carolina General Assembly met in the capitol building until 1963, when the legislature relocated to the new North Carolina State Legislative Building. The North Carolina Supreme Court also has used the building in the past.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.
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2007 photos: Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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