Battling Ballots: Should we stay or should we go now? North Carolina votes on secession.
Perhaps it was like candidate endorsements from advocacy organizations or newspaper editorial boards today. But in 1861, voters in North Carolina themselves …
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June 2015 Document of the Month | Prison Release & Parole Form
What a difference three days could make. Soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia present for the surrender at Appomattox on April …
June 2015 Artifact of the Month | Thomas Green Penn's Hardtack
The Civil War is sometimes called “a Rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight.” Laws, in both the North and …
Civil War Fact of the Day | May 26, 2015
On this day in 1865, Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith’s Trans-Mississippi Department was surrendered (without his knowledge, though he accepted the terms one …
May 2015 Artifacts of the Month | Pencil and cufflinks
On May 11, 1865, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, was arrested in Crawfordville, Georgia. When informed that he was to …