North Carolina

Headnote
Boundaries and Extent. — North Carolina is bounded north by the State of Virginia, east and south-east by the Atlantic Ocean, south by South Carolina and Georgia, and west by the State of Tennessee. It extends from latitude 33° 50' to 36° 30' north, and lies between 75° 45' and 84° west longitude; is 430 miles in length, and varies in breadth from 20 to 180 miles, and contains about 45,000 square miles. (Gazetteer of the United States of America, 1854)
    Place Unit Type
    State or Province
    Containing Unit
    Date Type
    Commercial vessel bound for New York sinks off Cape Hatteras Crime/Disasters
    Confederate privateer encounters the loaded Boston schooner "Enchantress" and takes her as a prize Battles/Soldiers
    Earthquake shakes Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio Crime/Disasters
    Former Whig congressman Edward Stanly appointed military governor of eastern North Carolina Lawmaking/Litigating
    Forty passengers and crew drown when a steamer wrecks off the coast of North Carolina Crime/Disasters
    In North Carolina, Confederate sailors and marines capture a Union gunboat in a night attack Battles/Soldiers
    New Cape Lookout Lighthouse lit for the first time on North Carolina coast Science/Technology
    North Carolina ratifies the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery Lawmaking/Litigating
    North Carolina votes narrowly not to hold a secession convention Campaigns/Elections
    Passenger steamer bound for Havana disabled off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina Crime/Disasters
    S.S. Central America sinks in a hurricane off the coast of North Carolina Crime/Disasters
    Stephen A. Douglas marries Martha Martin in North Carolina Personal
    The New York steamship burns off Cape Hatteras and eleven aboard are killed. Crime/Disasters
    U.S. Navy prize caught running the Charleston blockade sinks off North Carolina on its way to Boston Crime/Disasters
    U.S. Navy recaptures the Boston schooner "Enchantress" taken as a Confederate prize two weeks before Battles/Soldiers
    - U.S. Navy transport with new Department of the South commander aboard wrecked in North Carolina Crime/Disasters
    Name Type
    Alamance County, NC County
    Alexander County, NC County
    Alleghany County, NC County
    Anson County, NC County
    Ashe County, NC County
    Beaufort County, NC County
    Bertie County, NC County
    Bladen County, NC County
    Brunswick County, NC County
    Buncombe County, NC County
    Burke County, NC County
    Cabarrus County, NC County
    Caldwell County, NC County
    Camden County, NC County
    Carteret County, NC County
    Caswell County, NC County
    Catawba County, NC County
    Chatham County, NC County
    Cherokee County, NC County
    Chowan County, NC County
    Clay County, NC County
    Cleveland County, NC County
    Columbus County, NC County
    Craven County, NC County
    Cumberland County, NC County
    Currituck County, NC County
    Dare County, NC County
    Davidson County, NC County
    Davie County, NC County
    Duplin County, NC County
    Durham County, NC County
    Edgecombe County, NC County
    Forsyth County, NC County
    Franklin County, NC County
    Gaston County, NC County
    Gates County, NC County
    Graham County, NC County
    Granville County, NC County
    Greene County, NC County
    Guilford County, NC County
    Halifax County, NC County
    Harnett County, NC County
    Haywood County, NC County
    Henderson County, NC County
    Hertford County, NC County
    Hyde County, NC County
    Iredell County, NC County
    Jackson County, NC County
    Johnson County, NC County
    Jones County, NC County
    Lenoir County, NC County
    Lincoln County, NC County
    Macon County, NC County
    Madison County, NC County
    Martin County, NC County
    McDowell County, NC County
    Mecklenburg County, NC County
    Mitchell County, NC County
    Montgomery County, NC County
    Moore County, NC County
    Nash County, NC County
    New Hanover County, NC County
    Northampton County, NC County
    Onslow County, NC County
    Orange County, NC County
    Pamlico County, NC County
    Pasquotank County, NC County
    Pender County, NC County
    Perquimans County, NC County
    Person County, NC County
    Pitt County, NC County
    Polk County, NC County
    Randolph County, NC County
    Richmond County, NC County
    Robeson County, NC County
    Rockingham County, NC County
    Rowan County, NC County
    Rutherford County, NC County
    Sampson County, NC County
    Stanly County, NC County
    Stokes County, NC County
    Surry County, NC County
    Swain County, NC County
    Transylvania County, NC County
    Tyrrell County, NC County
    Union County, NC County
    Vance County, NC County
    Wake County, NC County
    Warren County, NC County
    Washington County, NC County
    Watauga County, NC County
    Wayne County, NC County
    Wilkes County, NC County
    Wilson County, NC County
    Yadkin County, NC County
    Yancey County, NC County
    Date Title
    John Henry Hill to William Still, January 7, 1855
    Richmond (VA) Dispatch, "The Underground Railroad," December 6, 1855
    Thomas Garrett to William Still, December 19, 1855
    Thomas Garrett to William Still, July 19, 1856
    John Thompson to William Still, January 6, 1857
    New York Times, “Important from the South,” June 23, 1857
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Revival of the Whig Party,” November 8, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Who are the Agitators?,” December 16, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Presidential Question,” January 24, 1859
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is thought at the North of the New Ultimatum,” August 15, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “New Danger To Douglas,” September 29, 1859
    Greensboro (NC) Patriot, "Secession of the Medical Students," January 6, 1860
    Boston (MA) Herald, “A Fugitive,” June 7, 1857
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “An Explanation,” June 28, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Disunion,” July 30, 1860
    New York Herald, “The Election in North Carolina,” August 4, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “A Word For Douglasites,” August 6, 1860
    New York Times, "Politics at the South," August 10, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Disunion Movement," September 13, 1860
    Raleigh (NC) Register, "Look Out, Douglas Men," November 6, 1860
    Raleigh (NC) Standard, "Untitled," November 14, 1860
    New York Herald, “The Disunion Question,” November 19, 1860
    New York Times, “A Sensible Proceeding,” December 20, 1860
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "Another Strong Blow for the Union," February 14, 1861
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Bad For Virginia,” February 20, 1861
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Hon. John A. Gilmer,” March 7, 1861
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “North Carolina and Secession,” April 4, 1861
    Richmond (VA) Dispatch, “Retaliation,” April 15, 1861
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Union Feeling in North Carolina,” August 27, 1861
    Marble Nash Taylor, Proclamation to the People of North Carolina, November 20, 1861
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “North Carolina Dissatisfied,” November 21, 1861
    Marble Nash Taylor, Proclamation to the People of North Carolina calling Elections, January 22, 1862
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “An Urgent Appeal,” September 29, 1862
    Edwin M. Stanton to Major General William T. Sherman, April 15, 1865
    Henry W. Halleck to William T. Sherman, April 15, 1865
    "The Consequence," Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1865
    Andrew Johnson, Proclamation of Reconstruction of North Carolina, Washington, D.C.
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