Topics Related to Civil War

N.C.’s Limb Replacement Program

On June 18, 1867, the state-run artificial limbs factory in Raleigh closed due to a lack of business. The state had been operating the plant through Jewett’s Patent Leg Company for about 18 months in order to fulfill the needs of the state’s Confederate amputees.

Explosives Advanced by Gabriel Rains during the Civil War

On June 17, 1864, Brigadier General Gabriel Rains was appointed chief of the newly created Torpedo Bureau of the Confederate army.

Civil War General and Episcopal Priest Leonidas Polk

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Henry Lawson Wyatt, Dead at Bethel, 1861

On June 10, 1861, Henry Lawson Wyatt lost his life at the Battle of Bethel in Virginia.

Stephen Lee and His Asheville School

Long-time Unionist Lawmaker Bedford Brown

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Civil War Origins of “Tar Heel”

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W. D. Pender, One of Lee’s Lieutenants

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Brief Return to Native State for Edward Stanly

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Torpedo Blast Felled Union Soldiers, 1864

On May 26, 1864, a deadly torpedo explosion occurred at Batchelor’s Creek, about eight miles west of New Bern. For the Union forces stationed there, the losses were devastating.