Matters of time and timing If a 19th-century Time magazine had picked a Person of the Year for any of the war years, Abraham Lincoln would have been impossible to ignore. The mere fact of his election in 1860 stirred South Carolina to declare the Union dissolved and...
Hard times on the home front Monroe is in the Hospital somewhere sick. Our 1st Lieut. is now Capt. and myself 1st Lieut. J.D. Currie 2nd Lieut. and Toler holds 2nd Lieut.’s place though he is not with us. He is at home, has hemorage (sic) of the lungs. Bill...
Help tell it like it is, and was Laws, Ian Fleming’s villainous Goldfinger scoffed to James Bond, are merely “the crystallized prejudices of the community.” That’s harsh, and not entirely accurate. But it makes the useful point that our code of...
Missing some of your history? Check this Have you hit a dead end in trying to piece together your ancestors’ stories? Has an old cemetery gone missing? Can’t find the will, birth or death certificate, or tax record you want? You could be looking in the wrong...
When assets suddenly became liabilities Not quite two years after the Civil War ended, John C. Smith of Cumberland County found himself in the same predicament as other planters suddenly confronted by the prospect of having to pay the help. The land that had made his...
Tar Heel war stories need a binder Some call the endless fascination with the Civil War puzzling — silly, even. They should rethink that. There are no reliable figures for those who were wounded or maimed, or those whose health was wrecked. No one can quantify...
The Assembly NC has recently published an article highlighting the efforts the North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction has made these last two years with the NC Educators’ Symposium program. Under the leadership of the center’s education initiatives director, Michael McElreath, the center has held …Read More »
