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It doesn’t seem that the role of women is given much consideration when people talk and write about the Civil War. There was a statue honoring the “women of the Confederacy” on the Capital Grounds in Raleigh. It’s been moved. On March 18, 1863, about 50 women resorted to violence in Salisbury, North Carolina —…
A few years ago, my family and I visited an exhibit of Blackbeard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, in Greenville. East Carolina University had the display at the Voice of America site just outside town. I was almost as fascinated about the VOA as the pirate stuff, as it seems like something from a black…
In August of 1880, former Confederate General Bryan Grimes was returning from a political convention in Washington County when he was killed by a hitman. The murder occurred in Bear Creek, just five miles from Grimes’ home, known as Grimesland. Grimes was a signer of North Carolina’s secession ordinance and joined the Confederate army shortly…
School teacher Peter Stuart Ney died on November 15, 1846 in Rowan County. He was part of a great legend that ended with a deathbed confession that he was Napoleon’s right-hand man. It was said that Marshal Michel Ney escaped a firing squad in 1815 and managed to make his way to America. It is…
We had caught the drop on them . . . [but then] . . . the earth just seemed to open up and take that line Captain John H. Thorp (sometimes spelled Thorpe) of Rocky Mount wrote a summary of the actions of the 47th North Carolina Regiment. At one point, the outfit was running…
With MLB announcing baseball is coming back next week, I dug out an old story about a Rocky Mount baseball team. All I can say is thank goodness we now have the Carolina Mudcats (and several other minor league teams within a short drive). I remember wanting to go see a minor league baseball game…