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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. NCHIS1_150320_009.JPG: Trade Begins Crisis Disease ravages villages, but survivors persevere
2. NCHIS1_150320_015.JPG: The arrival of Europeans changed everything
3. NCHIS1_150320_020.JPG: European Arrive Spain and England explore the New World
4. NCHIS1_150320_028.JPG: Conquistadors Come and Then Go
5. NCHIS1_150320_038.JPG: Early English Exploration
6. NCHIS1_150320_041.JPG: Did you know? The first Africans in the land that would become North Carolina travelled with Spanish explorers, arriving decades before English settlers.
7. NCHIS1_150320_047.JPG: The Lost Colony
8. NCHIS1_150320_053.JPG: English Sixpence Coin, 1583 An early English explorer or settler probably dropped this coin, which was found on Roanoke Island in the twentieth century.
9. NCHIS1_150320_062.JPG: Virginia Dare
10. NCHIS1_150320_065.JPG: On the Rough Frontier Settlers build new lives amid conflict
11. NCHIS1_150320_069.JPG: Pirates! Blackbeard and other pirates prowl here
12. NCHIS1_150320_072.JPG: Pirate Plunder
13. NCHIS1_150320_081.JPG: The QAR Might Have Looked Like This
14. NCHIS1_150320_089.JPG: Wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge
15. NCHIS1_150320_092.JPG: The Care and Feeding of Pirates
16. NCHIS1_150320_100.JPG: Building Community Many different people call North Carolina home
17. NCHIS1_150320_103.JPG: Natives and Newcomers Cultural mix shapes colony and sparks clashes
18. NCHIS1_150320_106.JPG: Eastern and Piedmont Indians Indians both influence and adopt European ways
19. NCHIS1_150320_109.JPG: The Great Wagon Road
20. NCHIS1_150320_115.JPG: Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind
21. NCHIS1_150320_118.JPG: The Highland Scots Celtic group retain ties to its cultural roots
22. NCHIS1_150320_121.JPG: The Cherokee Indians Growing European presence impacts western Indians
23. NCHIS1_150320_127.JPG: Unrest and Revolution Political conflict forces difficult decisions
24. NCHIS1_150320_130.JPG: Backcountry Battles People live with and fight against each other
25. NCHIS1_150320_132.JPG: The French and Indian War at Home
26. NCHIS1_150320_134.JPG: Barnett Lashley's Daughter
27. NCHIS1_150320_136.JPG: Fighting at Home and Abroad
28. NCHIS1_150320_138.JPG: Ostenaco
29. NCHIS1_150320_141.JPG: What's Your Weapon?
30. NCHIS1_150320_145.JPG: The Battle of Alamance
31. NCHIS1_150320_147.JPG: Regulator Handbell: Tradition says the Regulators used this bell to call their forces at the Battle of Almanance on May 16, 1771.
32. NCHIS1_150320_150.JPG: Governor William Tryon
33. NCHIS1_150320_152.JPG: Herman Husband
34. NCHIS1_150320_155.JPG: Edmund Fanning
35. NCHIS1_150320_160.JPG: The Regulators Resistance emerges in the backcountry
36. NCHIS1_150320_169.JPG: The Fight for Independence North Carolinians choose sides and face violence
37. NCHIS1_150320_172.JPG: The Revolutionary War in North Carolina
38. NCHIS1_150320_175.JPG: Neighbor against Neighbor
39. NCHIS1_150320_177.JPG: Kings Mountain and Guilford Court House
40. NCHIS1_150320_180.JPG: Bullet: This bullet came from the site of the Battle of Lindley's Mill, which occurred in Almanance County on September 13, 1781. Gloves: Samuel Alexander, of Burke County, reportedly wore these gloves at the Battle of Ramseur's Mill on June 20, 1780.
41. NCHIS1_150320_183.JPG: Pistol: This cavalry pistol, imported from France, is the type used by American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1763-1779.
42. NCHIS1_150320_186.JPG: Wallpaper Fragment: This piece of wallpaper has an English tax stamp on the back, indicating that it was taxed as a paper product. 1770-1776
43. NCHIS1_150320_194.JPG: Leading the Way to Freedom
44. NCHIS1_150320_197.JPG: Key: This key unlocked the building in Halifax where the Fourth Provincial Congress signed the Halifax Resolves, authorizing a vote for independence.
45. NCHIS1_150320_207.JPG: Continental Line Soldier
46. NCHIS1_150320_209.JPG: Forging a New Nation The people shape their new country
47. NCHIS1_150320_211.JPG: The Trail of Tears
48. NCHIS1_150320_215.JPG: Sequoyah
49. NCHIS1_150320_217.JPG: A Cherokee Book
50. NCHIS1_150320_219.JPG: Nathaniel Macon
51. NCHIS1_150320_223.JPG: Junaluska Yonaguska
52. NCHIS1_150320_230.JPG: A Government Revised
53. NCHIS1_150320_232.JPG: Nation under Construction North Carolina becomes the twelfth state
54. NCHIS1_150320_237.JPG: Icons of America
55. NCHIS1_150320_242.JPG: The Stripes and Stars? Do you recognize the twist on the Stars and Stripes? It flew in North Carolina when the United States was young and its symbols were still evolving. Tradition says this flag dates from the Revolutionary War. However, flag historians see the stripe fragments at the lower left as evidence that the flag originally had stripes representing at least fourteen states. Reproduction flag
56. NCHIS1_150320_244.JPG: American Symbols New looks reflect a new country
57. NCHIS1_150320_254.JPG: The Robson-Moore-Wichard-Taylor House
58. NCHIS1_150320_282.JPG: At the Crossroads North Carolinians take stock of their state
59. NCHIS1_150320_285.JPG: North Carolina counties in 1800 vs 1850
60. NCHIS1_150320_288.JPG: Balancing Power
61. NCHIS1_150320_321.JPG: Full Steam Ahead
62. NCHIS1_150320_324.JPG: Steam Power v Waterpower
63. NCHIS1_150320_335.JPG: Living Together Community forms the core of antebellum life
64. NCHIS1_150320_343.JPG: The Goods of the Land Farmers and planters live on what they can grow
65. NCHIS1_150320_345.JPG: Reforming Agriculture
66. NCHIS1_150320_354.JPG: Paul Cameron
67. NCHIS1_150320_356.JPG: Stephen Slade
68. NCHIS1_150320_359.JPG: Millers or special artisans called dressers carved all sorts of patterns, or dresses, into millstones. Every miller had his favorite pattern. The small millstone bears a sickle dress. This miniature millstone has a radial dress. One of the most common millstone patterns in North Carolina, it could be used to grind any type of grain.
69. NCHIS1_150320_362.JPG: Millstones
70. NCHIS1_150320_365.JPG: Wheat: Grist for Our Daily Bread
71. NCHIS1_150320_367.JPG: Corn: A Multipurpose Crop
72. NCHIS1_150320_373.JPG: Milling around the Mill Trade and community life center on mills
73. NCHIS1_150320_376.JPG: Farming & Milling
74. NCHIS1_150320_379.JPG: The Social Order People have their "places" in antebellum society
75. NCHIS1_150320_382.JPG: American Indians and Free Blacks
76. NCHIS1_150320_385.JPG: Slaves
77. NCHIS1_150320_392.JPG: Planters
78. NCHIS1_150320_395.JPG: Yeoman Farmers
79. NCHIS1_150320_404.JPG: Maritime Occupations The sea and sounds support vital industries
80. NCHIS1_150320_406.JPG: Gold Mining Gold lures prospectors from near and far
81. NCHIS1_150320_408.JPG: The Charlotte Mint
82. NCHIS1_150320_415.JPG: The Bechtler Mint
83. NCHIS1_150320_418.JPG: Bechtler gold pieces
84. NCHIS1_150320_420.JPG: Christopher Bechtler Sr.
85. NCHIS1_150320_424.JPG: Fishing for Profit
86. NCHIS1_150320_427.JPG: Lightering and Piloting
87. NCHIS1_150320_433.JPG: Maritime Occupations
88. NCHIS1_150320_436.JPG: View of First Lighthouse This commemorative pitcher shows Shell Castle Island, a bustling port just inside Ocracoke Inlet that boasted North Carolina's first known lighthouse. Developed about 1790 by John Wallace and John Gray Blount, Shell Castle employed up to forty people. They worked at the docks, warehouses, gristmill, windmill, and chandlery (supply dealer) on the island, which now lies underwater.
89. NCHIS1_150320_438.JPG: Saving Lives and Salvaging Cargo
90. NCHIS1_150320_440.JPG: Tar Nation The state leads the world in naval stores
91. NCHIS1_150320_443.JPG: A Cat-Faced Log?
92. NCHIS1_150320_449.JPG: Making Turpentine
93. NCHIS1_150320_451.JPG: 1. Boxing the Trees 2. Chipping and Pulling 3. Dipping and Hauling 4. Distilling Turpentine 5. Off-Season Tasks
94. NCHIS1_150320_458.JPG: What is a Tar Heel?
95. NCHIS1_150320_461.JPG: Naval Stores
96. NCHIS1_150320_463.JPG: Community Artisans Shilled tradespeople were in great demand
97. NCHIS1_150320_466.JPG: Community Artisans
98. NCHIS1_150320_468.JPG: The Institution of Slavery Slavery underpins the economic and social systems
99. NCHIS1_150320_471.JPG: People as Property
100. NCHIS1_150320_482.JPG: A Crowded House
101. NCHIS1_150320_488.JPG: Rolling Out the Barrels
102. NCHIS1_150320_490.JPG: The Camp Meeting
103. NCHIS1_150320_496.JPG: Community Life
104. NCHIS1_150320_498.JPG: Getting an Education
105. NCHIS1_150320_501.JPG: The People within the Institution
106. NCHIS1_150320_504.JPG: A Slave's Home
107. NCHIS1_150320_517.JPG: From Canals to Cotton Mills
108. NCHIS1_150320_520.JPG: Resistance and Rebellion
109. NCHIS1_150320_522.JPG: Scars of Resistance
110. NCHIS1_150320_525.JPG: Branding Iron
111. NCHIS1_150320_531.JPG: David Walker
112. NCHIS1_150320_533.JPG: Nat Turner
113. NCHIS1_150320_536.JPG: Free Blacks
114. NCHIS2_150320_001.JPG: North Carolina in Crisis War brings changes, division, and hardship
115. NCHIS2_150320_004.JPG: North Carolinians at Harpers Ferry
116. NCHIS2_150320_007.JPG: John Anthony Copeland Jr.
117. NCHIS2_150320_009.JPG: The Slavery Crisis
118. NCHIS2_150320_012.JPG: North Carolina Joins the Confederacy
119. NCHIS2_150320_015.JPG: Governor John W. Ellis
120. NCHIS2_150320_018.JPG: Dissolving the Union
121. NCHIS2_150320_024.JPG: Rallying round the Flag
122. NCHIS2_150320_030.JPG: The Soldier's Burden
123. NCHIS2_150320_035.JPG: Alfred May
124. NCHIS2_150320_039.JPG: A State Divided
125. NCHIS2_150320_042.JPG: Shelton Laurel Massacre: In January 1863, Confederate soldiers in Madison County rounded up a number of suspected Unionists and executed thirteen of them by firing squad without a trial.
126. NCHIS2_150320_045.JPG: Western Unionists: White North Carolinians from the western part of the state who sympathized with the Federal cause crossed into Tennessee to form two regiments, the Second and Third North Carolina Mounted Infantry.
127. NCHIS2_150320_047.JPG: Shoot-out at Bond Schoolhouse: On February 11, 1863, Yadkin County Unionists facing Confederate conscription met at Bond Schoolhouse. Confederate militia arrived and gunfire erupted, killing two men from each side.
128. NCHIS2_150320_050.JPG: Plymouth Massacre: Following the Confederate recapture of Plymouth on April 20, 1864, rumors of a massacre of black Federal soldiers, black civilians, and Confederate deserters circulated. The number killed remains unknown.
129. NCHIS2_150320_053.JPG: Kinston Hangings: In February 1864, Confederate commanders publicly hanged twenty-two captured white Union soldiers -- who had initially served in Southern units -- as Confederate deserters.
130. NCHIS2_150320_057.JPG: Federal Regiments in the East: White Unionists formed two regiments in Federal-occupied New Bern during 1862 and 1863. By 1864 three black infantry regiments and one black artillery regiment had also taken shape.
131. NCHIS2_150320_060.JPG: Wartime Politics
132. NCHIS2_150320_063.JPG: Both Confederate president Jefferson Davis and North Carolina governor Zebulon Vance struggled with the economic hardships the war imposed on the Confederacy.
133. NCHIS2_150320_066.JPG: Zebulon Baird Vance
134. NCHIS2_150320_069.JPG: William Woods Holden
135. NCHIS2_150320_072.JPG: Federal Occupation
136. NCHIS2_150320_075.JPG: Edward Stanly
137. NCHIS2_150320_077.JPG: Abraham H. Galloway
138. NCHIS2_150320_080.JPG: Freedmen's Settlements
139. NCHIS2_150320_083.JPG: Black Soldiers, White Officers
140. NCHIS2_150320_090.JPG: North Carolina's Federal Soldiers
141. NCHIS2_150320_092.JPG: Quaker Belt Unionists
142. NCHIS2_150320_098.JPG: The Lowry Band
143. NCHIS2_150320_099.JPG: Parker David Robbins
144. NCHIS2_150320_107.JPG: Mountain Hostiliities
145. NCHIS2_150320_115.JPG: Black Soldiers
146. NCHIS2_150320_116.JPG: The War Within
147. NCHIS2_150320_124.JPG: Keeping the Home Fires Burning
148. NCHIS2_150320_127.JPG: Confederate Drill Manual, 1862
149. NCHIS2_150320_128.JPG: Drill, Drill, and More Drill
150. NCHIS2_150320_131.JPG: Transcript of Boyles's Letter
151. NCHIS2_150320_142.JPG: Feeding an Army
152. NCHIS2_150320_144.JPG: Killing Time
153. NCHIS2_150320_147.JPG: Clean and Healthy?
154. NCHIS2_150320_151.JPG: Spending Winter in Camp
155. NCHIS2_150320_159.JPG: The Role of Religion
156. NCHIS2_150320_162.JPG: The Role of Religion
157. NCHIS2_150320_164.JPG: The Rush to Fight North Carolinians eagerly prepare for war
158. NCHIS2_150320_167.JPG: Making Do with What's Available
159. NCHIS2_150320_171.JPG: Defending the Old North State
160. NCHIS2_150320_174.JPG: North Carolina two-dollar bill, 1861
161. NCHIS2_150320_176.JPG: New Money for a New Government
162. NCHIS2_150320_179.JPG: Flying New Colors
163. NCHIS2_150320_181.JPG: Levi and Henry Walker
164. NCHIS2_150320_184.JPG: James Green Martin
165. NCHIS2_150320_190.JPG: Early Victories at Bethel and Manassas
166. NCHIS2_150320_194.JPG: May 20, 1861 The Die is Cast: Delegates at North Carolina's secession convention all vote to leave the Union. June 10, 1861 First at Bethel: Henry Lawson Wyatt of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, becomes North Carolina's first casualty of the war. July 7, 1861 The Death of Governor John Ellis: The governor who urged North Carolina into secession dies. Henry Toole Clark succeeds him. July 21, 1861 The First Major Engagement -- Manassas: Colonel Charles F. Fisher and twenty-three other members of his regiment fall in the Confederate victory. August 26-29, 1861 The Invasion of Eastern North Carolina: Forts Clark and Hatteras, protecting Hatteras Inlet on the Outer Banks, fall to Union occupation. February 7-8, 1862 The Burnside Expedition: Federal troops led by Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside occupy Roanoke Island. February 10, 1862 The Mosquito Fleet Destroyed: Federal forces defeat the remaining Confederate ships protecting North Carolina's coast at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County. March 14, 1862 Mainland Invasion: Burnside's troops continue inland and capture their first major city, New Bern in Craven County.
167. NCHIS2_150320_201.JPG: May 20, 1861 The Die is Cast: Delegates at North Carolina's secession convention all vote to leave the Union. June 10, 1861 First at Bethel: Henry Lawson Wyatt of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, becomes North Carolina's first casualty of the war. July 7, 1861 The Death of Governor John Ellis: The governor who urged North Carolina into secession dies. Henry Toole Clark succeeds him.
168. NCHIS2_150320_204.JPG: July 7, 1861 The Death of Governor John Ellis: The governor who urged North Carolina into secession dies. Henry Toole Clark succeeds him. July 21, 1861 The First Major Engagement -- Manassas: Colonel Charles F. Fisher and twenty-three other members of his regiment fall in the Confederate victory. August 26-29, 1861 The Invasion of Eastern North Carolina: Forts Clark and Hatteras, protecting Hatteras Inlet on the Outer Banks, fall to Union occupation.
169. NCHIS2_150320_210.JPG: August 26-29, 1861 The Invasion of Eastern North Carolina: Forts Clark and Hatteras, protecting Hatteras Inlet on the Outer Banks, fall to Union occupation. February 7-8, 1862 The Burnside Expedition: Federal troops led by Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside occupy Roanoke Island. February 10, 1862 The Mosquito Fleet Destroyed: Federal forces defeat the remaining Confederate ships protecting North Carolina's coast at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County. March 14, 1862 Mainland Invasion: Burnside's troops continue inland and capture their first major city, New Bern in Craven County.
170. NCHIS2_150320_213.JPG: An Occupied Confederate State
171. NCHIS2_150320_216.JPG: Turning Off the Light
172. NCHIS2_150320_220.JPG: A piece of the lighthouse lamp, destroyed at Cape Hatteras in 1862 by order of the Confederate Government & brought to Raleigh by the State Militia.
173. NCHIS2_150320_223.JPG: William Rhem
174. NCHIS2_150320_232.JPG: A Woman's War
175. NCHIS2_150320_235.JPG: Sewing for the State
176. NCHIS2_150320_238.JPG: Producing for the Military The Fayetteville Arsenal
177. NCHIS2_150320_241.JPG: Turning Clay Into Cash
178. NCHIS2_150320_252.JPG: Supplying the Troops
179. NCHIS2_150320_256.JPG: April 26, 1862 The Surrender of Fort Macon: Union artillery breaches the masonry walls of Fort Macon, which protected Beaufort Inlet. September 8, 1862 The Soldier's Candidate: Zebulon B. Vance, colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops, is inaugurated as governor. December 31, 1862 The Sinking of The Monitor: The ironclad USS Monitor sinks in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras, losing sixteen crewmen. January, 1863 A New Kind of Navy: In a Martin County cornfield, construction begins on the ironclad ram ship CSS Albemarle. March 18, 1863 The Salisbury Bread Riot: Frustrated by perceived profiteering, soldiers' wives forcibly take flour and salt from local Salisbury merchants. March 30-April 20, 1863 Attempting to Regain a Foothold: Confederate forces under D.H. Hill stage an unsuccessful siege of Union-occupied Washington, Beaufort County. [Left out of the chronology for some reason: May 2, 1863 North Carolinians fatally wound Stonewall Jackson: Members of the 18th North Carolina Regiment accidentally shoot Jackson who's reconnoitering the Confederate position during the battle of Chancellorsville.] July 1-3, 1863 Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg: The Twenty-Sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops advances farther than any other Confederate unit during the battle. September 19-20, 1863 Farthest to the Front at Chickamauga: The Thirty-ninth Regiment North Carolina Troops captures Union cannons during the battle.
180. NCHIS2_150320_258.JPG: April 26, 1862 The Surrender of Fort Macon: Union artillery breaches the masonry walls of Fort Macon, which protected Beaufort Inlet. September 8, 1862 The Soldier's Candidate: Zebulon B. Vance, colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops, is inaugurated as governor. December 31, 1862 The Sinking of The Monitor: The ironclad USS Monitor sinks in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras, losing sixteen crewmen. January, 1863 A New Kind of Navy: In a Martin County cornfield, construction begins on the ironclad ram ship CSS Albemarle.
181. NCHIS2_150320_264.JPG: January, 1863 A New Kind of Navy: In a Martin County cornfield, construction begins on the ironclad ram ship CSS Albemarle. March 18, 1863 The Salisbury Bread Riot: Frustrated by perceived profiteering, soldiers' wives forcibly take flour and salt from local Salisbury merchants. March 30-April 20, 1863 Attempting to Regain a Foothold: Confederate forces under D.H. Hill stage an unsuccessful siege of Union-occupied Washington, Beaufort County. [Left out of the chronology for some reason: May 2, 1863 North Carolinians fatally wound Stonewall Jackson: Members of the 18th North Carolina Regiment accidentally shoot Jackson who's reconnoitering the Confederate position during the battle of Chancellorsville.] July 1-3, 1863 Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg: The Twenty-Sixth Regiment North Carolina Troops advances farther than any other Confederate unit during the battle. September 19-20, 1863 Farthest to the Front at Chickamauga: The Thirty-ninth Regiment North Carolina Troops captures Union cannons during the battle.
182. NCHIS2_150320_273.JPG: "Liberating" Federal Equipment
183. NCHIS2_150320_278.JPG: Fighting the Confederacy's Battles
184. NCHIS2_150320_285.JPG: April 20, 1864 Regaining a Foothold in the East: Aided by the CSS Albemarle, Confederate recapture Plymouth in Washington County, boosting Southern morale. August 4, 1864 Sticking with Zeb: Governor Zebulon Vance soundly defeats opponent William W. Holden's peace platform to win a second term. September 10, 1864 The End of the Advance After seventeen successful runs into Southern ports, the blockade-runner Advance is captured near Wilmington. October 1, 1864 Death off the Tar Heal Coast: Legendary Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns in North Carolina waters while fleeing the Federals. October 27, 1864 Sinking Hopes in Plymouth: A torpedo blast sinks the ironclad CSS Albemarle during a daring raid by Union forces. December 24-25, 1864 The Gibraltar of the South: Federal troops attack Fort Fisher but fail to capture or significantly damage the installation. January 13-15, 1865 The Fall of Fort Fisher: United States forces launch another attack and succeed in capturing the fort protecting Wilmington. February 22, 1865 Outside Access Denied: Federal troops isolate the Confederacy by occupying Wilmington, the South's last open port.
185. NCHIS2_150320_287.JPG: April 20, 1864 Regaining a Foothold in the East: Aided by the CSS Albemarle, Confederate recapture Plymouth in Washington County, boosting Southern morale. August 4, 1864 Sticking with Zeb: Governor Zebulon Vance soundly defeats opponent William W. Holden's peace platform to win a second term. September 10, 1864 The End of the Advance After seventeen successful runs into Southern ports, the blockade-runner Advance is captured near Wilmington. October 1, 1864 Death off the Tar Heal Coast: Legendary Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns in North Carolina waters while fleeing the Federals.
186. NCHIS2_150320_290.JPG: September 10, 1864 The End of the Advance After seventeen successful runs into Southern ports, the blockade-runner Advance is captured near Wilmington. October 1, 1864 Death off the Tar Heal Coast: Legendary Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow drowns in North Carolina waters while fleeing the Federals. October 27, 1864 Sinking Hopes in Plymouth: A torpedo blast sinks the ironclad CSS Albemarle during a daring raid by Union forces. December 24-25, 1864 The Gibraltar of the South: Federal troops attack Fort Fisher but fail to capture or significantly damage the installation.
187. NCHIS2_150320_294.JPG: January 13-15, 1865 The Fall of Fort Fisher: United States forces launch another attack and succeed in capturing the fort protecting Wilmington. February 22, 1865 Outside Access Denied: Federal troops isolate the Confederacy by occupying Wilmington, the South's last open port.
188. NCHIS2_150320_296.JPG: A Courier's Clothing
189. NCHIS2_150320_300.JPG: Charles Courtenay Tew
190. NCHIS2_150320_303.JPG: Isaac E. Avery
191. NCHIS2_150320_312.JPG: The CSS Albemarle
192. NCHIS2_150320_315.JPG: The CSS Neuse
193. NCHIS2_150320_319.JPG: Artillery projectiles from the CSS Neuse
194. NCHIS2_150320_324.JPG: Iron Ships for the Confederacy
195. NCHIS2_150320_331.JPG: John Newland Maffitt
196. NCHIS2_150320_335.JPG: Rose O'Neal Greenhow
197. NCHIS2_150320_341.JPG: Wreck of the Modern Greece
198. NCHIS2_150320_346.JPG: Breaking the Blockade
199. NCHIS2_150320_349.JPG: The Final Days North Carolina meets defeat
200. NCHIS2_150320_352.JPG: March 7, 1865 Sherman's Invasion: Federal general William T. Sherman and his troops enter North Carolina, marching toward Fayetteville. March 8-10, 1865 The Battle of Wyse Fork: Confederate troops near Kinston fail to halt Federal progress toward railway supply lines in Goldsboro. March 19-21, 1865 The Battle of Bentonville: Confederate troops try to stop Sherman's advance in the largest battle fought on North Carolina soil. April 9, 1865 Last at Appomattox: A North Carolina brigade fires the Army of North Carolina's final volley before surrender. April 12, 1865 Stoneman's Raid in Western North Carolina: Federal general George Stoneman occupies Salisbury, destroying supplies and the Confederate prison there. April 13, 1865 A Capital Capitulation: Sherman's troops enter and occupy Raleigh, but the state's capital is spared major destruction. April 22-26, 1865 North Carolina as the Confederate Capital: After fleeing Richmond, President Davis and the Confederate cabinet hold their final meetings in Charlotte. April 26, 1865 Surrender at Bennett Place: Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to Sherman at the Bennett farm near Durham.
201. NCHIS2_150320_357.JPG: March 7, 1865 Sherman's Invasion: Federal general William T. Sherman and his troops enter North Carolina, marching toward Fayetteville. March 8-10, 1865 The Battle of Wyse Fork: Confederate troops near Kinston fail to halt Federal progress toward railway supply lines in Goldsboro. March 19-21, 1865 The Battle of Bentonville: Confederate troops try to stop Sherman's advance in the largest battle fought on North Carolina soil. April 9, 1865 Last at Appomattox: A North Carolina brigade fires the Army of North Carolina's final volley before surrender.
202. NCHIS2_150320_358.JPG: April 12, 1865 Stoneman's Raid in Western North Carolina: Federal general George Stoneman occupies Salisbury, destroying supplies and the Confederate prison there. April 13, 1865 A Capital Capitulation: Sherman's troops enter and occupy Raleigh, but the state's capital is spared major destruction. April 22-26, 1865 North Carolina as the Confederate Capital: After fleeing Richmond, President Davis and the Confederate cabinet hold their final meetings in Charlotte. April 26, 1865 Surrender at Bennett Place: Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to Sherman at the Bennett farm near Durham.
203. NCHIS2_150320_362.JPG: Fighting for Fort Fisher
204. NCHIS2_150320_366.JPG: Watch fob
205. NCHIS2_150320_369.JPG: Bentonville
206. NCHIS2_150320_378.JPG: George Stoneman
207. NCHIS2_150320_386.JPG: William Holland Thomas
208. NCHIS2_150320_388.JPG: Hand-carved Wooden Chain, c 1864
209. NCHIS2_150320_391.JPG: Whittling Away the Time
210. NCHIS2_150320_400.JPG: Surrendering the Cause
211. NCHIS2_150320_403.JPG: Hat: General William R. Cox, who wore this hat, commanded the brigade that fired the last volley before the surrender at Appomattox.
212. NCHIS2_150320_408.JPG: Bennett Place model
213. NCHIS2_150320_411.JPG: Hardship at Home
214. NCHIS2_150320_414.JPG: Substituting for the Cause Hard Times
215. NCHIS2_150320_429.JPG: The Salisbury Bread Riot
216. NCHIS2_150320_436.JPG: Defeat Brings Devastation and Loss
217. NCHIS2_150320_442.JPG: Hope for Freedom War's end brings new beginnings
218. NCHIS2_150320_444.JPG: A Troubled Peace Reconstruction forces difficult changes
219. NCHIS2_150320_447.JPG: Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but most slaves did not experience freedom until after the war.
220. NCHIS2_150320_449.JPG: Andrew Johnson became president of the United States after Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh in 1808.
221. NCHIS2_150320_451.JPG: After the war, former slaves could marry legally for the first time. Many also reunited with relatives who had been sold away during slavery.
222. NCHIS2_150320_457.JPG: African Americans embraced their new opportunities for education. The Freedmen's Bureau, established to assist former slaves, provided teachers and sponsored schools across the South.
223. NCHIS2_150320_460.JPG: A freedmen's theology class held in Raleigh on December 1, 1865, led to the founding of Shaw University, the South's first black college. In 1882, Leonard Medical School -- which offered the nation's first four-year medical program -- opened at Shaw.
224. NCHIS2_150320_471.JPG: In March 1869, North Carolina ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the denial of voting rights based on race.
225. NCHIS2_150320_486.JPG: 1865: Former slaves establish Freedom Hill (later Princeville) in Edgecombe County. In 1865 it becomes the nation's first town incorporated by African Americans.
226. NCHIS2_150320_488.JPG: September 29-October 3, 1865: Black delegates to a Freedmen's Convention meet in Raleigh to call for equal rights.
227. NCHIS2_150320_491.JPG: December 4, 1865: North Carolina ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolishes slavery.
228. NCHIS2_150320_494.JPG: March 2, 1867: The United States Congress passes the Reconstruction Act. North Carolina becomes part of the Second Military District.
229. NCHIS2_150320_499.JPG: February 24, 1868: Radical Republican congressmen opposed to President Johnson's leniency toward the South impeach him. He is eventually acquitted.
230. NCHIS2_150320_502.JPG: April 21-23, 1868: North Carolina ratifies a new state constitution giving black males the right to vote.
231. NCHIS2_150320_505.JPG: July 4, 1868: North Carolina rejoins the Union after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees African Americans rights as citizens.
232. NCHIS2_150320_512.JPG: Confederate officers sign paroles in Greensboro. The parole stated that a soldier "has given his solemn obligation not to take up arms against the Government of the United States... and is permitted to return to his home."
233. NCHIS2_150320_521.JPG: Rewriting the Rules
234. NCHIS2_150320_523.JPG: Delegate Fred F. French used this pen to sign his name to the 1868 state constitution, which abolished race and property requirements for voting.
235. NCHIS2_150320_526.JPG: Freedom Gained African Americans seek new opportunities
236. NCHIS2_150320_529.JPG: Symbols of Freedom
237. NCHIS2_150320_537.JPG: "Bottom Rail Now on Top"
238. NCHIS2_150320_541.JPG: New Voices in Government
239. NCHIS2_150320_545.JPG: Reproduction Ku Klux Klan mask
240. NCHIS2_150320_549.JPG: Handmade Terror
241. NCHIS2_150320_553.JPG: The White Backlash
242. NCHIS2_150320_557.JPG: The Swamp Outlaws, or the Lowery Bandits of North Carolina
243. NCHIS2_150320_559.JPG: Outlaws or Heroes?
244. NCHIS2_150320_562.JPG: These items were found on the body of outlaw Tom Lowry after he was killed by A.S. Wishart, who collected a $5,000 reward.
245. NCHIS2_150320_572.JPG: The More Things Change... Reconstruction ends in North Carolina
246. NCHIS2_150320_574.JPG: In 1876, North Carolinians elected Democrat Zebulon B. Vance, the state's wartime governor, to the executive office again, signaling an end to Reconstruction. William Furgurson created this elaborate political cartoon to celebrate that event.
247. NCHIS2_150320_577.JPG: Throughout Reconstruction many white North Carolinians resented the presence of "carpetbaggers" (Northerners) and "scalawags" (Southerners who supported Reconstruction measures) in their state.
248. NCHIS2_150320_580.JPG: September 6-October 11, 1875: Delegates to a state constitutional convention propose multiple amendments that serve to consolidate Democratic Party control.
249. NCHIS2_150320_583.JPG: Voters in eastern, black-majority districts continued to elect African American officials throughout Reconstruction. John R. Bryant of Halifax County won election to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870 and 1872 and to the state senate in 1874 and 1876.
250. NCHIS2_150320_587.JPG: April 1877: President Rutherford B. Hayes orders the removal of remaining Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
251. NCHIS2_150320_588.JPG: By the mid-1870s, the state's prewar white elite were returning to political power. This image shows members of the 1875 North Carolina House of Representatives on the grounds of the State Capitol.
252. NCHIS2_150320_591.JPG: By 1872: The Ku Klux Klan becomes less active as white Democrats begin regaining political power.
253. NCHIS2_150320_594.JPG: Republicans such as George W. Reid of Randolph County tried unsuccessfully to rally voters and counter the intimidating effects of Klan violence.
254. NCHIS2_150320_597.JPG: May-November 1870: Unrest known as the Kirk-Holden War occurs after Holden places Federal officer Colonel George W. Kirk in control of the two counties.
255. NCHIS2_150320_600.JPG: Governor William H. Holden's enemies impeached him over calling out the militia and suspending the right to trial during the Kirk-Holden War. He became the first American governor convicted and removed from office. In 2001, the North Carolina Senate pardoned Holden.
256. NCHIS2_150320_607.JPG: May-November 1870 Governor Holden calls out the militia and declares martial law in Alamance and Caswell counties in response to Klan violence.
257. NCHIS2_150320_610.JPG: The More Things Change... Reconstruction ends in North Carolina
258. NCHIS2_150320_616.JPG: Democracy Betrayed Conspirators overthrow a city government
259. NCHIS2_150320_619.JPG: In May 1870, Ku Klux Klan members stabbed to death Republican state senator John W. "Chicken" Stephens in the Caswell County Courthouse basement. Governor Holden responded to this and other acts of Klan violence by calling out the militia.
260. NCHIS2_150320_625.JPG: Overthrowing a Government
261. NCHIS2_150320_628.JPG: Assisting in a Coup
262. NCHIS2_150320_634.JPG: Wilmington before the Riots
263. NCHIS2_150320_637.JPG: Alexander L. Manly
264. NCHIS2_150320_640.JPG: The Rise and Fall of Fusion Politics
265. NCHIS2_150320_643.JPG: This advertisement from the May 21, 1889, issue of the Progressive Farmer shows how local Farmers' Alliance groups worked to promote products and improve farm profits.
266. NCHIS2_150320_646.JPG: Leonidas L. Polk
267. NCHIS2_150320_650.JPG: The Farmers' Alliance
268. NCHIS2_150320_656.JPG: Governor Daniel Russell, a Republican, defeated his Democratic opponent in the 1896 election because of Fusion support from black and white Republicans and Populists.
269. NCHIS2_150320_666.JPG: The Red Shirts
270. NCHIS2_150320_671.JPG: Living with Jim Crow
271. NCHIS2_150320_673.JPG: "We Have Taken a City"
272. NCHIS2_150320_676.JPG: This 1898 photograph of a corner stone at Fourth and Harnett streets has two white X marks showing where two black men were shot dead during the Wilmington Race Riot.
273. NCHIS2_150320_679.JPG: Wilmington Light Infantry and North Carolina Naval Reserve troops escorted banished black citizens to the train station. Hundreds of African Americans left Wilmington in the days following the "riot."
274. NCHIS2_150320_683.JPG: This image shows officers from the various militia units in service in Wilmington during the "riot."
275. NCHIS2_150320_686.JPG: The Rise of Sharecropping
276. NCHIS2_150320_689.JPG: Farmers in Debt
277. NCHIS2_150320_692.JPG: Into the Modern Age North Carolinians adapt to new ways
278. NCHIS2_150320_694.JPG: The New South People face economic and social change
279. NCHIS2_150320_716.JPG: Many union leaders felt that if they could organize textile workers, they would gain a foothold in the nonunionized South. This cartoon shows the "giant" working class becoming aware of its problem -- mill managers.
280. NCHIS2_150320_719.JPG: Protest
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Wikipedia Description: North Carolina Museum of History
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The North Carolina Museum of History is located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Permanent exhibits focus on the state’s military history, decorative arts, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, and more. Visitors will see a variety of short-term and traveling exhibits. (An exhibit list follows the "History" section below.) Admission is free, and special programs include craft demonstrations, music concerts and family events. The Museum Shop features North Carolina crafts.

The museum is a part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, an agency of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.

The museum is located at 5 East Edenton Street in Raleigh. Hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Contact: 919-807-7900 or ncmuseumofhistory.org.

History:

Frederick Augustus Olds, known as the “father” of the North Carolina Museum of History, began collecting items from across North Carolina in the late 1800s. He traversed the state, acquiring pieces of the past and the stories associated with them. Some of the objects were related to events in the state’s history, while others might have seemed rather strange. (One item was simply labeled a “box of rocks.”) Olds amassed a large private collection, and on December 5, 1902, he merged his items with the collection owned and displayed in the State Museum (the modern-day North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences). This assortment of historical artifacts became known as the "Hall of History" and was opened to the public. Thirty-seven cases contained everything from a studded shoe buckle owned by James Iredell to the death mask of Confederate General Robert Hoke.

The North Carolina Historical Commission took over the Hall of History in 1914 and moved the collection to the Ruffin Building; however, this space quickly became limited. The hall made another move in 1939 to the Education Building, where an area was specifically designed to accommodate both artifacts and exhibits. With the continued growth of the collection, the expanded exhibit space, and an increase in staff, it was decided on July 1, 1965, that the Hall of History would be renamed the North Carolina Museum of History. The museum moved to the Archives and History/State Library Building in 1968. In 1973 the museum opened to the public and soon became a landmark for visitors to Raleigh.

Finally, on June 16, 1988, the State of North Carolina broke ground at 5 East Edenton Street to begin construction of a new building. Symbolically placed between the old North Carolina State Capitol and the newer Legislative Building, the museum’s permanent home was completed in 1994. For more than $29 million, the new building featured a research library, classrooms, a 315-seat auditorium, a design shop, conservation labs, artifact storage space, offices, the Museum Shop, and 55,000 square feet (5,100 m2) of exhibit space.

Exhibits:

First Floor:

* “Barbie — Simply Fabulous at 50!” Through July 5, 2010. Beginning with a first-edition Barbie, this small exhibit offers glimpses of the history and evolution of the American icon and business phenomenon.
* “Museum Sleuths: Whatchamacallits and Thingamajigs” This exhibit features 21 objects from the museum's collection and spotlights a selection of unusual items that will befuddle or bemuse you.

Third Floor:

* “Pleasing to the Eye: The Decorative Arts of North Carolina” Objects from the museum's collection, including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, silver, portraits, pottery, and textiles ranging from the 1600s to the late 1900s.
* The 1920s Drugstore Re-created interior of a typical North Carolina drugstore from the 1920s, complete with pharmacist's workroom and authentic marble-topped soda fountain.
* “A Call to Arms: North Carolina Military History Gallery" A look at North Carolina’s military heritage from the American Revolution to the Iraq War.
* The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame: Audio, video, and interactive biographies, plus Richard Petty's stock car, Meadowlark Lemon's uniform, and other sports artifacts.
* The Tar Heel Junior Historian Association: Award-winning history projects by North Carolina students.
* "Workboats of Core Sound" On view through May 2, 2010. This photography exhibit showcases the work of Lawrence S. Earley, an author, photographer and former editor of Wildlife in North Carolina. Earley’s black-and-white images, combined with excerpts of interviews with fishermen, boatbuilders and other Core Sound residents, tell us about the history and culture of fishing communities in “Down East” North Carolina.
* "A New Land, 'A New Voyage': John Lawson’s Exploration of Carolina" Through Feb. 15, 2010. This small exhibit commemorates the 300th anniversary of the publication of "A New Voyage to Carolina." Published in 1709 in London, this book by English explorer and naturalist John Lawson was the first major attempt to describe the natural history of the New World to Europeans. The book is based on Lawson’s 550-mile, 57-day trek with nine others through Carolina in 1700 and 1701. The exhibit showcases artifacts, natural history specimens, illustrations, maps and manuscripts related to this epic journey.
* "In Search of a New Deal: Images of North Carolina, 1935-1941" Through Jan. 31, 2011. The exhibit features Farm Security Administration photographs documenting daily life in rural North Carolina during the Great Depression. The 50 images provide a compelling and diverse portrait of a state coping with tough economic times. The exhibit, originally produced by Historic Oak View County Park in Raleigh, is supplemented with Depression-era artifacts from the N.C. Museum of History collection.
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