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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCAPNC_150320_011.JPG: 1795-1849 James Knox Polk of Mecklenburg County President 1845-1949 He enlarged our national boundaries 1767-1845 Andrew Jackson of Union County President 1829-1837 He revitalized American democracy 1808-1875 Andrew Johnson of Wake County President 1865-1869 He defended the Constitution
2. SCAPNC_150320_017.JPG: This memorial is dedicated to the heroic men and women of North Carolina who served in America's wars, as long as the flame of freedom burns, the memory of their sacrifice for peace shall endure.
3. SCAPNC_150320_021.JPG: Major Engagements of World War II
4. SCAPNC_150320_023.JPG: Major Engagements of World War I
5. SCAPNC_150320_027.JPG: Major Engagements of the Korean War
6. SCAPNC_150320_042.JPG: North Carolina State Capitol Last Signal Station -- Carolinas Campaign -- 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's 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. 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" from the dome with colorful 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.
7. SCAPNC_150320_047.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 of 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, 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.
8. SCAPNC_150321_001.JPG: To the North Carolina Women of the Confederacy
9. SCAPNC_150321_026.JPG: Presented to the State of North Carolina Ashley Horne Erected 1914
10. SCAPNC_150321_032.JPG: Augustus Lukeman 1915 Henry Augustus Lukeman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Augustus Lukeman (January 28, 1872 – April 3, 1935) was an American sculptor, specializing in historical monuments. Noted among his works are the World War I monument in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the Kit Carson Monument in Trinidad, Colorado and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia.
11. SCAPNC_150321_035.JPG: Charles Brantley Aycock 1859-1912 AYCOCK'S IDEALS FOR NORTH CAROLINA "I would have all our people to believe in the possibilities of North Carolina: in the strength of her men, purity of her women, and their power to accomplish as much as can be done anywhere on Earth by any people." "I would have them to become dissatisfied with small things, to be anxious for higher and better things; to yearn after real greatness; to seek after knowledge; to do the right thing in order that they may be what they ought." "I would have the strong to bear the burdens of the weak and to lift up the weak and make them strong, teaching men everywhere that real strength consists not in serving ourselves, but in doing for others." Charles Brantley Aycock From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Brantley Aycock (November 1, 1859 – April 4, 1912) was the 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. After starting his career as a lawyer and teacher, he became active in the Democratic Party during the party's Solid South period, and was a strong proponent of the white supremacy campaigns of that period. Under his tenure as governor, he was an advocate for the improvement of the state's public school systems, and following his term in office, he traveled the country promoting educational causes.
12. SCAPNC_150321_038.JPG: AYCOCK'S IDEALS FOR NORTH CAROLINA "I would have all our people to believe in the possibilities of North Carolina: in the strength of her men, purity of her women, and their power to accomplish as much as can be done anywhere on Earth by any people." "I would have them to become dissatisfied with small things, to be anxious for higher and better things; to yearn after real greatness; to seek after knowledge; to do the right thing in order that they may be what they ought." "I would have the strong to bear the burdens of the weak and to lift up the weak and make them strong, teaching men everywhere that real strength consists not in serving ourselves, but in doing for others."
13. SCAPNC_150321_041.JPG: AYCOCK'S IDEALS OF PUBLIC SERVICE "Equal! That is the word! On that word I plant myself and my party -- the equal right of every child born on Earth to have the opportunity to burgeon out all there is within him." "No man is so high that the law shall not be enforced against him and no man is so low that it shall not reach down to him to lift him up if may be and set him on his feet again and bid him Godspeed to better things." "There is but one way to serve the people well, and that is to do the right thing, trusting them as they may ever be trusted, to approve the things which count for the betterment of the State."
14. SCAPNC_150321_084.JPG: Vance
15. SCAPNC_150321_091.JPG: If there be a people on earth given to sober second thought amenable to reason and regardful of their plighted honor. I believe that... it is the people of North Carolina.
16. SCAPNC_150321_100.JPG: The subjection of every passion and prejudice ... to the cooler sway of judgment and reason, when the common welfare is concerned, is the first victory to be won.
17. SCAPNC_150321_105.JPG: The country turns toward her young men, and called them to lead the way in preaching and practicing hope. You are required, above all, to teach our people to look up from the crumbling ashes and prostrate columns of their present ruin, to the majestic proportions and surpassing grandeur of that temple which may yet be built by the hand which labors, the mind which conceives, and the great soul which faints not.
18. SCAPNC_150321_111.JPG: Well and truly North Carolina performed her duty, as the result on many a stricken field will show. First and last she sent to the armies of the Confederacy, not relatively, but absolutely, more soldiers than any other state in the south: furnished more supplies, equipped her troops better, ... there was not a sacrifice which she was called upon to make for the good of the southern cause that she did not make, and make cheerfully.
19. SCAPNC_150321_120.JPG: Charles Duncan McIver Educational statesman Born 27th September 1860 Died 17th September 1906
20. SCAPNC_150321_123.JPG: Founder and first president of the State Normal and Industrial College for Women
21. SCAPNC_150321_126.JPG: Erected by the school children, the teachers, and his other friends and admirers, AD 1911
22. SCAPNC_150321_130.JPG: "People -- not rocks and rivers and imaginary boundary lines -- make a state: and the state is great just in proportion as its people are educated."
23. SCAPNC_150321_152.JPG: Charles Keck sc '48
24. SCAPNC_150321_212.JPG: This memorial is dedicated to the heroic men and women of North Carolina who served in America's wars. As long as the flame of freedom burns, the memory of their sacrifice, for peace, shall endure.
25. SCAPNC_150321_234.JPG: Henry Lawson Wyatt Private Co. A, Bethel Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers Killed at Bethel Church, June 10, 1861 First Confederate soldier to fall in battle in the war between the states.
26. SCAPNC_150321_244.JPG: Samuel A'court Ashe, LL.D. 1840-1938 Patriot - Soldier - Historian - Legislator - Editor - Christian Citizen Captain and assistant adjutant general of Pender's staff CSA, heroic defender of Fort Wagner, and twice cited for conspicuous service in the battles of Cedar Run and Second Manassas. Brigadier general and vice commander of the United Confederate Veterans. The last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate States Army. He was a worthy representative of a line of patriotic men of his name who rendered distinguished service to state and country. Eternally young, always the friend and inspirer of youth. Few men have lived so many years. Honored and loved through them all. A life which enriched the south and the nation. A lover of peace, and valiant for the truth. Samuel A'Court Ashe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samuel A'Court Ashe (September 13, 1840 – 1938) was a Confederate infantry captain in the American Civil War and celebrated editor, historian, and North Carolina legislator. Prior to his death in 1938, he was the last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate States Army. Samuel's father, William Shepperd Ashe (1814–1862), served in the North Carolina state senate and United States Congressman. The United Confederate Veterans conferred the title of Brigadier General upon Samuel A. Ashe in 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ashe is also noted for his booklet on the war titled A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-65.
27. SCAPNC_150321_275.JPG: 32 pounder naval cannon taken in June 1861 when the Navy Yard at Norfolk was abandoned by the United States. Banded and converted at Richmond into a 6 inch rifle mounted at Fort Caswell, North Carolina. Dismounted by exploding magazines when the Confederates evacuated that fort in January 1865. Presented by US War Department 1902
28. SCAPNC_150321_316.JPG: Worth Bagley Ensign USN First fallen 1898 Worth Bagley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ensign Worth Bagley (April 6, 1874 – May 11, 1898) was a United States Navy officer during the Spanish–American War, distinguished as the only U.S. naval officer killed in action during that war.
29. SCAPNC_150321_332.JPG: Killed in action at Cardenas Cuba May 11, 1898
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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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