Tag Archives: Civil War

Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site Sets Civilian Living History Program

FOUR OAKS – Experience the blended aroma of assorted homemade foods cooked over on open hearth at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site during the Fall Civilian Living History Program on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. During the American Civil War, a variety of food substitutes such as sweet potato coffee, “artificial oysters” and [...]

N.C. Museum of History Returns Civil War Flag to Rhode Island

The North Carolina Museum of History has returned a Civil War flag of Company L, First Rhode Island Cavalry to its home state. The V-shaped flag, called a guidon, was captured by the 63rd North Carolina Troops (Fifth North Carolina Cavalry) on June 17, 1863, during the Battle of Middleburg, Virginia. The battle was part [...]

The 26th Regiment N.C. Troops, Reactivated, Funds Conservation of Battle of Gettysburg Confederate Flag

The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh is home to one of the nation’s largest collections of Confederate flags. However, conservation of these banners requires expensive, specialized textile treatment. To help fund this need, the museum has formed a thriving partnership with the 26th Regiment N.C. Troops, Reactivated, the state’s largest Civil War re-enactment group.
The [...]

Graveyard of the Atlantic Hosts Free Talk on USS Monitor Recovery, Artifacts

HATTERAS – Eric Nordgren, senior conservator with the USS Monitor project at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., will give a free public presentation on “Conservation of the USS Monitor” at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum on Wednesday, June 17, at 7 p.m.
On Dec.31, 1862, the famed Union ironclad USS Monitor fell victim [...]

Arsenal Roundtable: Civil War Munitions

During The War Between the States, both sides used of a wide array of weapons, both domestically manufactured and imported from abroad. Supplying the troops with the proper ammunition was an ongoing struggle, particularly for the Confederacy. On Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 pm., the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical [...]

‘Flags Over Hatteras’ Civil War Talk at Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum May 20

HATTERAS–Drew Pullen, an authority on the Civil War on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, give a free public presentation, “Flags Over Hatteras,” at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum on Wednesday, May 20, at 7 p.m.
In May 1861, the Atlantic Blockading Squadron Board of Strategy regarded the “…sterile, half drowned shores of North Carolina…” with little [...]

Music Inspired by the American Civil War

North Carolina songwriters Barney Rogers and Russell Johnson will perform original acoustic music inspired by the spirit and emotion of the American Civil War during Music of the Carolinas: Rogers and Johnson, a free performance on Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. (May 10 is Mother’s Day, [...]

Free Multimedia Presentation on Shaping the State Constitution in 1868

RALEIGH – For most North Carolina students prior to the Civil War, education was only available a few weeks or months a year to white children only, if at all. Families often paid for schooling since public schools had limited geographic reach. Only white male property owners could vote or hold office. [...]

State Capitol Lecture Explores Journey of N.C.’s copy of U.S. Bill of Rights

RALEIGH–As a hard rain lashed the last Confederate state capital to surrender to General William T. Sherman, the first Union soldiers entered Raleigh on April 13, 1865, ending the general’s infamous March through the Carolinas. By the time the general’s troops struck camp and left three weeks later, North Carolina’s original copy of the [...]

Archaeologists Find Gun Platform at Ft. Anderson’s Battery B

Video courtesy of WECT TV6 Wilmington, NC

WINNABOW – Archaeological investigations at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson State Historic Site have discovered a 147 year old wooden gun platform that supported an 11,360 lb. Sea Coast 32-Pounder cannon. The excavations mark the first archaeology to be undertaken at the site in over 40 years and are the [...]