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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
al Canby assembles at Raleigh, Jan. 14; frames a constitution and adjourns, March 16. Constitution is ratified by a popular vote of 93,118 to 74,009......April, 1868 North Carolina readmitted into the Union......June 25, 1868 Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States rejected by North Carolina, Dec. 4, 1866, is ratified by legislature......July 4, 1868 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment......March 5, 1869 Acts of violence by secret organizations in Lenoir, Jones, Orange, and Chatham counties lead Governor Holden to issue a proclamation of admonition and warning......Oct. 20, 1869 Owing to alleged outrages of the Kuklux, Governor Holden proclaims Alamance county in a state of insurrection, March 7, 1870, and Caswell county, July 8, and sends militia into the disturbed counties under Colonel Kirk......July, 1870 Colonel Kirk arrests persons implicated in deeds of violence; writs of habeas corpus are issued by Chief-Justice Pearson, but Co
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Forty-Ninth N. C. Infantry, C. S. A. [from the Charlotte, N. C., Observer, October 20, 27, 1895.] (search)
d discipline were advanced; and equipment was perfected; so that, when in 1864, we were made a component part of General Beauregard's command between Richmond and Petersburg, on the south side of the James, it is more than probable that there was not in the Confederate service any brigade containing a greater number of effective, well-trained, veteran soldiers, and which constituted so valuable a force of that grade. On May 22d, 1863, a sharp affair occurred at Gum Swamp, in Craven or Lenoir county, in which the Fifty-sixth and Twenty-fifth regiments, owing to the negligence of our cavalry, were surrounded by a considerable force of the enemy, and, after losing about 170 prisoners, the remainder of those two commands barely escaped capture by figting their way through the surrounding forces. During this movement Companies C, D, and H, of the Forty-ninth, were picketing at Mosley's Creek, a parallel road from Newbern, the balance of the regiment being moved from Kinston to the sup
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
to send troops to protect our people. The troops have been all withdrawn from Hyde county. There are only a few in Beaufort. They will not remain four hours after the enemy comes. Suppose the enemy should come, what must the people do? They will give up. We should not expect anything else. Imagine a man with wife and children. The enemy comes up—no means of escape. The alternatives are death and dishonor to his wife, or submission. What will he do? Mr. John C. Washington, of Lenoir county: Stand up for the South! Mr. Rayner: What did our ancestors in the Revolution, when Cornwallis marched through the land? The Whigs treated those who took protection as traitors. Satterthwaite: What would you do? Rayner: Under threat of dishonor to wife and children I might speak the word of submission, but I would steel my heart against them. What one does under duress cannot and should not be charged against him. Dr. Speed said that he had been informed that the statement
The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal Accidents. (search)
Fatal Accidents. --A fatal occurrence took place in Lenoir co., N. C., last Saturday night. A man named Wm. Gray, while at a log rolling, at the residence of a neighbor, became intoxicated, and started home, carrying a torch-light. In some way his clothes became ignited; no person being near at the time, the unfortunate man was burnt in a shocking manner, and died in a few hours.
The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The tiger still Alive in Richmond. (search)
North Carolina election. Raleigh, Nov. 6. --The election returns come in slowly. Turner, Conservative, is certainly elected over Arrington in the 5th district. In the 3d district Leach leads McRae about 600, with Duplin and Sampson counties to hear from. Leach is thought to be elected Sampson county reported as having given him a majority. In the 2d district Yellowby carried Lenoir, Green, Pitt, and Wilson counties; Edgecourt and Halifax to hear from. The contest is a close one. In the 7th district Chatham and Moore counties have gone for Christian by three to one. Christian thought to be elected over Ashe, late member. Gilmer is elected in the 6th district. Nothing from other districts.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], One thousand Dollars reward. (search)
ed the evening's exercises with the delivery of the valedictory address to the graduates. We append the following list of graduates: William F. Alexander, Jefferson county, Virginia; James W. Atkin, Harnett county, North Carolina; George S. Barnsley, Bartew county, Georgia; John C. Bell, Augusta county, Virginia; William J. Bell, Augusta county, Virginia; John F. Bethea, Marion District. South Carolina; P. McL. Burbank, Meriwether county, Georgia; Matthew H. Carr, Jr., Lenoir county, North Carolina; Edward L. Carrington, Charlotte county, Virginia; Robert M. Cochran, Dallas county, Alabama; James M. Collier, Hampton, Virginia; Samuel Davis, Carroll county, Virginia; Charles C. Davis, Dinwiddie county, Virginia; Edward W. De Treville, Charleston, South Carolina; Charles R. Donoho, Rutherford county, Tennessee; William J. H. Durham, Orange county, North Carolina; James T. Durrett, Albemarle county, Virginia; Julian T. Edwards, Richmond, Virginia; T. Player Edwards, Colleton D