Henry Toole Clark served as the state's governor from July 1861 to September 1862.
Clark founded a Confederate prison in North Carolina, set up European purchasing connections, and built a successful gunpowder mill.
His successor Zebulon Vance further increased state assistance for the soldiers in the field.

As the war went on, William Woods Holden became a quiet critic of the Confederate government, and a leader of the North Carolina peace movement.
In 1864, he was the unsuccessful "peace candidate" against incumbent Governor Vance.
Unionists in North Carolina formed a group called the "Heroes of America" that was allied with the United States.
Numbering nearly 10,000 men, a few of them possibly black, they helped Southern Unionists escape to U.S. lines.

The North Carolina General Assembly of 1868–1869 ratified the Fourteenth Amendment on July 4, 1868, which readmitted North Carolina to the Union.
Henry Toole Clark served as the state's governor from July 1861 to September 1862. Clark founded a Confederate prison in North Carolina, set up European purchasing connections, and built a successful gunpowder mill. His successor Zebulon Vance further increased state assistance for the soldiers in the field.
As the war went on, William Woods Holden became a quiet critic of the Confederate government, and a leader of the North Carolina peace movement. In 1864, he was the unsuccessful "peace candidate" against incumbent Governor Vance. Unionists in North Carolina formed a group called the "Heroes of America" that was allied with the United States. Numbering nearly 10,000 men, a few of them possibly black, they helped Southern Unionists escape to U.S. lines.
The North Carolina General Assembly of 1868–1869 ratified the Fourteenth Amendment on July 4, 1868, which readmitted North Carolina to the Union.
North Carolina in the American Civil War