Patrick County / North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina was one of the original thirteen states. The first settlement was made on Roanoke Island, 1585, but was not permanent. Settlers from Virginia occupied the Albemarle region before 1663, in which year the colony of Carolina was ...

Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment

Pettigrew's Brigade, Heth's Division

Twenty-Sixth

North Carolina Regiment

Pettigrew's Brigade - Heth's Division

Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Although nearly destroyed during its successful attack against Meredith's Iron Brigade on July 1, the Twenty-Sixth North Carolina Regiment joined in the Pettigrew-Pickett Charge on the Afternoon ...

North Carolina / South Carolina

North Carolina. Colonized, 1585–87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for Independence, Apr. 12, 1776.

South Carolina. Formed in 1712 from pat of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled ...

North Carolina School of the Arts

Est. 1963; opened 1965. First state-supported school for performing arts in U.S. A campus of The University of North Carolina since 1971.

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street and Giannini Drive, on the left when traveling south on ...

North Carolina Monument

In memory of the North Carolina soldiers who fought and died so courageously and the civilians who suffered so grievously during the Battle of Bentonville. March 19-21, 1865.

[ Back of Monument: ]Sleep, soldier, sleep, in thy rough earthen tomb.

While above ...

North Carolina

Civil War Trails

North Carolina's Civil War stories are as diverse as its landscape. The Outer Banks and coastal rivers saw action early in the war, as Union forces occupied the region. Stories abound of naval battles, blockade running, Federal raids, ...

North Carolina

The last Federal battery taken by the Confederates was captured by the North Carolina cavalry brigade of Brig. Gen. W.P. Roberts at this place.

Marker is on Virginia Route 24, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate North Carolina Junior Reserve Line

In front of you is where the North Carolina Junior Reserves stood as the Army of Tennessee made its last grand charge against Carlin’s division at the Cole plantation on March 19, 1865. Three regiments and one battalion of Junior ...

North Carolina Railroad

Opened interior of N.C. The ground-breaking took place nearby, July 11, 1851. First president, John Motley Morehead.

Marker is at the intersection of S Elm Street and Smothers Place, on the left when traveling north on S Elm Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

North Carolina

The following North Carolina units honorably and gallantly

participated in the action at Reams Station on August 25, 1864

Infantry

Lane's Brigade

Seventh, Eighteenth, Twenty-Eighth, Thirty-Third, Thirty-Seventh

Scale's Brigade

Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty-Second, Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Eighth

Cooke's Brigade

Fifteenth, Twenty-Seventh, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Eighth

Kirkland's - MacRae's Brigade

Eleventh, Twenty-Sixth, Forty-Fourth, Forty-Seventh, Fifty-Second

Cavalry

Gorden's - ...