page_title: Zebulon Baird Vance
section_title: Civil War
hierarchical_section_title: Zebulon Baird Vance / Civil War
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: historiesofsever03clar (find matches) Title: Histories of the several regiments and battalions from North Carolina, in the great war 1861-'65 Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Clark, Walter, 1846-1924, ed Subjects: North Carolina. Militia North Carolina -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories North Carolina Publisher: Raleigh, E.M. Uzzell, printer Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: cession was agreed to on account of the disturbed con-&lt;litiou of the country. Kirk was told by Bartlett that hemast control his men and by Love and Thomas that // he did111)1 thai titeji voald. Most of the officers and men of the old Legion have gone totheir long home. Those still living are numbered withthe best citizens of the land, loyal to their State, section andnation and not ashamed of their Confederate record, whilethere is no bitterness to our late foes. The writer as the last field officer of the regiment, whilefeeling it his duty to write, feels his entire inability to dojustice to all, especially to the private soldiers, whose nameseven cannot be given here, but nobly generous North Carolinahas preserved these in four volumes of Moores Koster. For(turs, see Vol. 4, page 152, etc. W. W. Stkingfieed. Waynesville, N. C, 10 May, 1901. ii^ii ^^^-^^^^^i ^ I WfAi w^^ (T ml m iiaVW m M nKrW wSSk omM S MSB M iim m B 3uo tuB Text Appearing After Image: ZEBULON B. VANCE. GOVERSOR, 186a-1866L HISTORIES SEVERAL REGIMENTS AND BATTALIONS NORTH CAROLINA GREAT WAR 1861-65. . VRITTEN BT nEMEERS Of THE RESFECTIVE COnrLftNDS EDITED BY WALTER £LARK, (Lieut.-CoLOJfKL SEVE^TIETH Regiment X. C. T. ) VOL. III. ^ PUBLISHED BY THE STATE. XASH BROTHERS.BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS,GOLDSBORO, N. C.1901 I 5H whecked THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 264072 ASTOR. LETILOEN &lt;---R .--. —s CONTENTS. PAGE. Forty-Third Regiment, by Colonel Thomas S. Kenan,..^ 1 Fortv-Third Regiment, (Company A.) by Colonel Thomas S. Kenan • 19 Forty-Fourth Regiment, by Major Charles M. Stedman 21 Forty-Fifth Regiment, by Sergeant Cyrus B. Watson 35 Forty-Sixth Regiment, by Lieutenant J. M. Waddill 63 Forty-Seventh Regiment, bii Captain John H. Thorp 83 Forty-Seventh Regiment, by Lieutenant J. Rowan Rogers 103 Forty-Eighth Regiment, by Captain, W. H. H. Lawhon 113 Forty-Ninth Regiment, by Lieutenant Thomas R. Roulhac 125 Forty-Ninth Regiment, by Captain B. F. Dixon 151 Fiftieth Rehistoriesofsever03clar Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Zebulon Baird Vance was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator. A prolific writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods. As a leader of the "New South", Vance favored the rapid modernization of the Southern economy, railroad expansion, school construction, and reconciliation with the North.
context_section_description: By the time the ordinance of secession had passed in May 1861, Vance was a captain stationed in Raleigh, commanding a company known as the "Rough and Ready Guards", part of the Fourteenth North Carolina Regiment. That August, Vance was elected Colonel of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina. The Twenty-sixth engaged in the Battle of New Bern in March 1862, where Vance conducted an orderly retreat. Vance also led the Twenty-sixth at Richmond. The Twenty-sixth was ultimately destroyed at the Battle of Gettysburg, losing more than 700 of its original 800 members, though Vance at that time was no longer in military service.
  In September 1862, Vance won the gubernatorial election. In the Confederacy Vance was a major proponent of individual rights and local self-government, often putting him at odds with the Confederate government of Jefferson Davis. For example, North Carolina was the only state to observe the right of habeas corpus and keep its courts fully functional during the war. Vance opposed Confederate conscription practices; postwar, he would even testify in the hearing investigating George Pickett's execution of 22 alleged Confederate deserters in the aftermath of the Battle of New Bern (1864). Vance testified that the North Carolinians were "troops raised for local defense" and that "the Confederate government did not keep faith with these local troops," who were "transfer[red] to the regular service" in "violation of their enlistment agreement." This testimony questioned the legality of Pickett's decision to hang as deserters the North Carolinians found fighting for the Union troops, and put Pickett at risk of prosecution for war crimes. Vance also refused to allow supplies smuggled into North Carolina by blockade runners to be given to other states until North Carolinians had their share. Vance's work for the aid and morale of the people inspired the nickname "War Governor of the South". Vance was re-elected in 1864. On May 29, 1865, William Woods Holden was appointed governor by President Andrew Johnson.  Some have said that when Vance left Raleigh when it was captured by Sherman at the end of the Civil War, that the house where he temporarily lived in Statesville was a "temporary state capitol," but it is more accurately argued that there is no evidence that he conducted official business in Statesville, and that Gov. Holden believed that once Vance left Raleigh, he relinquished the office of governor.
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