Question: When did the state in which the governor during the Civil War died, become a part of the U.S.?

In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. Most of North Carolina's slave owners and large plantations were located in the eastern portion of the state. On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. Although North Carolina's plantation system was smaller and less cohesive than that of Virginia, Georgia, or South Carolina, significant numbers of planters were concentrated in the counties around the port cities of Wilmington and Edenton, as well as suburban planters around the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham in the Piedmont. Planters owning large estates wielded significant political and socio - economic power in antebellum North Carolina, which was a slave society. They placed their interests above those of the generally non-slave - holding ``yeoman ''farmers of western North Carolina. In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129 - mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a`` farmer's railroad'', from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston - Salem). <SEP> 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. Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. <SEP> william henry harman (february 17, 1828  – march 2, 1865) was a brigadier general in the virginia militia and colonel in the confederate states army during the american civil war (civil war). prior to the war, harman had served as a second lieutenant in the 1st virginia infantry regiment during the mexican–american war, after which he had become a lawyer. he was commonwealth's attorney for augusta county, virginia from 1851 until the beginning of the civil war, when he was appointed a brigadier general in the state militia. <SEP> During General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, Raleigh was captured by Union cavalry under the command of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick on April 13, 1865. As the Confederate cavalry retreated west, the Union soldiers followed, leading to the nearby Battle of Morrisville. After the Civil War began, Governor Zebulon Baird Vance ordered the construction of breastworks around the city as protection from Union troops. The city was spared significant destruction during the War, but due to the economic problems of the post-war period and Reconstruction, with a state economy based on agriculture, it grew little over the next several decades. <SEP> raleigh is an early example in the united states of a planned city, chosen as the site of the state capital in 1788 and incorporated in 1792 as such. the city was originally laid out in a grid pattern with the north carolina state capitol in union square at the center. in the united states civil war the city was spared from any significant battle, only falling in the closing days of the war, though it did not escape the economic hardships that plagued the rest of the american south during the reconstruction era. the twentieth century saw the opening of the research triangle park in 1959, and with the jobs it created the region and city saw a large influx of population, making it one of the fastest growing communities in the united states by the early 21st century.